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Kenyan religious groups ready to work with President-elect, despite his war crime indictment
‘Let them have a chance to speak at the Hague, and let the ICC decide’, says Catholic leader , March 13 (World Watch Monitor) —
Amongst their first formal meetings as President and Deputy President-elect of Kenya, Uhuru ...
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Egypt’s Christians, fearing instability, seek security elsewhere
They say cathedral attack, kidnappings indicate government neglectCairo, April 9 (World Watch Monitor) —
By James Martone
In downtown Cairo mid-March, the multicolored pharaoh-motif tablecloths and dishtowels were mis...
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Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a t...
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Kano bus bomb prompts religious leaders to joint call for urgent measures
A car bomb attack in a Christian enclave of Kano, the largest city in mainly-Muslim Northern Nigeria, has heightened religious and ethnic tensions throughout the country.
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Warning against euphoria over reforms, as military targets minorities
Christians around the world who’ve been praying for Burma have been warned against ‘euphoria’ over reform, while Christian and Muslim minorities remain under attack by the military.
Sunday March 10 marked the 16th annivers...
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Libyan human-rights official flees country after death threats
The head of the Libyan Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has resigned and fled to London, saying he’s received death threats. Hassan Al Amin, prominent for his long opposition to the Gaddafi regime, recently spoke out against...
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Widest church grouping raises funds for Boko Haram’s almost 800 victims during 2012
The most dangerous country for a Christian to live during 2012 was, arguably, Nigeria. That’s what research for the 2013 edition of the World Watch List shows up: it’s produced by the global Christian organisation Open Doors, w...
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2 steps back for Vietnam
On Jan. 1, Vietnam updated its rules for enforcing its highest law regarding religion. Known as the Decree on Religion 92/2012 ND-CP, or simply ND-92, the new decree is meant to clarify rules written in 2005.
On close insp...
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Burned church is latest in string of Tanzanian attacks
Clashes with Islam in an otherwise ‘peaceful country’, February 25 (World Watch Monitor) —
Arsonists burned a Tanzania church Feb. 19 in the semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar, two days after gunmen killed a Catholic pr...
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No prison, but a bigger fine, for Algerian Christian
A court in Algeria has thrown out a prison sentence, but has increased a fine, on a man convicted of trying to convert a Muslim to Christianity.