Posts Tagged ‘Islamic’
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Anti-Christian hostility high in Zanzibar as Tanzania mainland also heats up
Islamic extremist attacks and land grabs on this semi-autonomous island off the coast of Tanzania have continued unabated even as violence has increased on the mainland.
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Attack in Nigeria that Killed 18 Christians Caps Two Years of Islamic Aggression
Farmer Hosea Mashaf rushed from a neighboring village to aid Christians under attack. (Morning Star News photo) MILE BAKWAI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Hosea Mashaf was resting in his village of Chirang Mangor, Nigeria, when...
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Pakistani court overturns Younis Masih’s ‘blasphemy’ conviction, Death Sentence
A court in Pakistan today overturned the death sentence of a Christian convicted under Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws and ordered him released, according to an advocacy group.
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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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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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5 Iranian Christians on trial for practicing faith
Quran Gate in Shiraz, Iran. (Amir Hussain Zolfaghary, Wikipedia) ISTANBUL (Morning Star News) – Five Christian converts arrested last year in Iran went on trial on Sunday (March 10) for leaving Islam and were handed enormous ba...
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Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani believed to be dead
An Anglican vicar in Iraq has said that besieged Iranian Pastor Youssef Nadarkhani is dead.
Writing on his Facebook page today (Thursday, March 7), Canon Andrew White, who serves St. George’s Church in Baghdad, said he was m...
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Nigerian army chief: Officer had prior knowledge of church bombing
Nigerian military authorities say the commandant at a military college in Kaduna state had prior knowledge of the Nov. 25, 2012 bombing that killed 20 Christians at the institution's chapel.
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Pastor in Pakistan released on bail after mistaken blasphemy accusation
In a rare instance in Pakistan, a judge granted bail to a pastor accused of blaspheming Islam because the complainant admitted that he had mistakenly accused him, attorneys said.
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Christian bookstores raided, church buildings demolished in Sudan
Having deported scores of foreign Christians and demolished several church buildings in the past few months, Sudan continued ridding the country of Christianity this week by raiding Christian bookshops in Khartoum and arresting...