Tag: Women

Rescued Chibok girl still missing

June 23, 2016 Nigeria Chibok girls, Children, Education, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

“BringBackOurGirls”, an advocacy group which has been campaigning for the safe rescue of the kidnapped Chibok schoolgirls, has expressed concerns over the whereabouts of Amina Ali, the first girl rescued a month ago. On 19 May, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari promised the government “will do everything possible” to ensure that . . . Read More

UN urges Vietnam to stop ‘torture’ of Christian

June 6, 2016 Vietnam Communism, Human rights, Nguyen Cong Chinh, Torture, Vietnam, Women

The UN has criticised Vietnam’s “repeated arrest and torture” of a female Christian activist whose husband, a pastor, is in jail “for peaceful religious activities”. Tran Thi Hong was targeted for “informing the international community of human rights violations against her husband”, says a statement from the UN High Commissioner . . . Read More

Lost, then found, then lost

May 27, 2016 Nigeria Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Women

On 19 May, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari held a ceremony at the presidential palace to meet Amina Ali Nkeki, 19, the first of the 219 girls kidnapped from their Chibok school in April 2014 . The girl was there with her new baby, and her elderly mother. The three haven’t . . . Read More

Vietnam Christian woman’s ‘intolerable’ harassment

May 18, 2016 Vietnam Human rights, Nguyen Cong Chinh, Religion Law, Religious freedom, Torture, Vietnam, Women

The harassment of a Vietnamese Christian human rights activist, whose husband, pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh, is currently serving an 11-year prison sentence, has become “intolerable” . Tran Thi Hong was recently questioned by the authorities about interviews with the foreign press, her “unauthorized, unapproved and illegal” Lutheran faith and her . . . Read More

Calls for Christian asylum centres in Sweden

April 29, 2016 Assyrians, Asylum seekers, Converts, France, Germany, Iran, Islamic extremism, Middle East, Pakistan, Refugees, Sweden, Women

Increasing reports about Christians harassed by hardline Muslim fellow migrants are prompting calls for non-Muslim asylum centres to be set up in Sweden. According to the Swedish Evangelical Alliance, one Christian refugee in Kalmar in the southeast of the country was threatened with having his throat slit by a man . . . Read More

Female bomber ‘signature’ weapon of Boko Haram

April 21, 2016 Nigeria Boko Haram, Cameroon, Chibok girls, Damasak, Nigeria, Rape, Women

A new report reveals that the kidnapping of 270 Chibok girls in 2014 and the 400 women and children taken from Damasak in Nigeria last year are not isolated cases. It shows Boko Haram’s strategy aimed at using women – some as young as 10 – as suicide bombers in . . . Read More

Christian women face double vulnerability due to gender and religion

March 24, 2016 Global News -- No Particular Country Easter, Women

Nicole Ravelo-Hoerson, originally from Madagascar, a speaker at the Marcham Conference, March 2016Release International Women were close witnesses of the violence meted out to Jesus Christ during his Passion and Crucifixion, which Western Christians commemorate this weekend. They were also among the first to face persecution by the Roman . . . Read More

How romance across Egypt’s religious divide forces women and Christians to pay a high price

February 22, 2016 Egypt Converts, Copts, Women

A street in a neighbourhood of Tamia, Egypt, where the romance began.World Watch Monitor Not for the first time in Egypt, a romance between a Muslim divorcee and a Copt eventually ended in tragedy late last year, when the woman, who had ‘converted’ to Christianity, was killed by members . . . Read More

Myanmar army ‘covered up’ Christian killings

January 20, 2016 Myanmar Kachin, Myanmar, Rape, Shan, Women

A new report investigating the rape and murder of two Kachin Christian teachers in Myanmar accuses the government of “systematic cover up”. Produced by the Kachin Women’s Association of Thailand and the Legal Aid Network, to coincide with the one-year anniversary of the deaths of Maran Lu Ra, 20, and . . . Read More

Latest Assyrian hostages’ release by ISIS

January 4, 2016 Syria Assyrians, Children, Hasakah, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Syria, Women

ISIS has released 25 of the Assyrian hostages it captured during the militant group’s February 2015 in Hassaka Province, northern Syria. The hostages were released in good health on Christmas day. Two of the hostages were men and the rest women and children. All the children belonged to six of . . . Read More

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