From George Marlin of Catholic Online: For many months now there have been plenty of headlines devoted to the unrest in the Middle East, notably in Egypt and Syria. What has been missing, however, is any significant media coverage of the ongoing anti-Christian persecutions in those two countries. The world was just deliberating at the […]
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State of Iowa Attacks Mennonites For Standing Up To The Sodomites
By Theodore Shoebat The sodomites, with the support of the heretical state of Iowa, is attacking the Mennonites. There is a new story in which a Mennonite wedding facility is being sued by the state of Iowa’s Civil Rights Commission, for their denying to have a homosexual marriage conducted, a decision which of course springs […]
British Parlimintarian: End Persecution of Christians
From Express: Tory MP Philip Hollobone has demanded more be done to stop the persecution of Christians across the Middle East and Africa. Many Coptic Christians have been killed, tortured and raped while churches have been torched, including 100 in Egypt. Last month Taliban suicide bombers killed 85 worshippers at a Christian church in Peshawar, […]
Christian-Muslim Tensions Still Linger In Kenya
From The Washington Post, by Ken Chitwood: NAIROBI, Kenya — While the smoke that hung over the Westgate Shopping Mall has dissipated, a quiet tension still lingers in the air throughout the capital. Last month’s attack by al-Shabab militants on a mall frequented by Westerners in the capital city, left at least 67 dead. But […]
Chinese Government Persecutes Christians
From Religion Today: Washington, D.C. (ICC) — A recent spate of attacks against Christians and house churches in China underlines the country’s relentless habit of persecuting Christians, even at the cost of its own reputation in the international community. Christians Beaten in Hainan Province On Aug. 14, a number of Christians in Lingao town, Lincheng […]
Christians Join Syrian Army To Fight Jihadists
From Catholic Online Syrian Christians are starting to align with the regime of Bashar al Assad as extremist rebels form an increasing number of the anti-regime fighters. Worried about their churches and homes, Christians are organizing into volunteer units and fighting alongside the regular Syrian army. There is a sense of stalemate and a need […]
Ancient Protestants Fought Against Ancient Muslims — A Call For Unity
By Theodore Shoebat While the Christians of antiquity called themselves Catholic, there was a sect who rejected the legitimacy of the Papacy, on account that it reaccepted lapsed Christians who, out of fear, gave sacrifices to pagan gods during the early persecutions. These were called Novatians, the Protestants of old Christendom. One could argue that […]
14 People Killed and over 1,000 people homeless in Central Africa
From CP World: Clashes in the Central African Republic between Muslims and Christians have killed 14 people in the past week, police and a senior Catholic official have reported. While Christians make up 80 percent of the Central African Republic’s 4.5 million population, they have been the victims of violence since Seleka rebels took control […]
Pakistani Text Books: Killing Christians Necessary
From CT World: Some school textbooks in Pakistan include lessons teaching students that killing Christians is a goal that must be achieved for them to obtain martyrdom, according to a report prepared by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). The report also included claims that Islamist groups in Pakistan are launching regular attacks against […]
Analyst: “persecuted Christians deserves to be the world’s number one human rights priority”
From CNA: Denver, Colo., Oct 6, 2013 / 04:06 pm (CNA).- In his new book “The Global War on Christians,” Vatican analyst John Allen, Jr. details anti-Christian abuse worldwide, drawing light to the tremendous scale of violence against the world’s most persecuted religion. “I don’t think it takes any religious convictions or confessional interests at […]
More Than 100 Christian Sites Attacked In Egypt In Mid-August
From Patheos Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of Islam threatened monasteries, sanctuaries and villages in Egypt, Syria and Iraq. That was 1997. Human-rights scholar Paul Marshall kept hearing one question over and over when he addressed this rising tide of persecution: Why didn’t more American Christians protest as […]
Christian leader in Syria: Intervention “fueling criminality, fueling inhumanity, fueling fundamentalism, terrorism”
It is interesting to note that the perpetuators came from Iraq; if Saddam was still in power they would have never done this. From MTT: Al-Qaida-linked Syrian rebels from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant sacked a Melkite Greek-Catholic Church in the Syrian town of al-Raqqa. The Melkites follow the Roman Catholic pope […]
British Pakistani Bishop To England: Do Not Become Anti-Christian
From Christian Concern: Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has warned that Britain risks becoming actively “anti-Christian” at the launch of Christian Concern’s publishing house “Wilberforce Publications” which seeks to equip Christians to “face the challenges of the secular world”. Marginalisation Drawing on his own experience of persecution, both personally and as President of OXTRAD, Bishop Nazir-Ali said […]
Forty Murdered In Nigeria
From Middle East Forum, by Raymond Ibrahim: Many around the world were recently made aware—got a small glimpse—of the Islamic jihad that plagues northern Nigeria, at the hands of Boko Haram, an organization dedicated to eradicating Christianity and enforcing the totality of Sharia law. Last Sunday, September 29, around 1 a.m. Islamic terrorists dressed in […]
Boko Haram Is Enabled By Freedom of Religion
By Theodore Shoebat The majority of persecution toward Christians has taken place in Nigeria, a secularly governed nation with freedom of religion, and not a sharia country. A nation that has freedom–freedom of consciousness, freedom of thought–has the most persecution. Its not Pakistan, its not Somalia, but Nigeria, and the violence toward Christians is provoked […]
Religious Liberty Leads To Tyranny
By Theodore Shoebat All of civilization, came as a result of religious intolerance. When the Hebrews invaded Canaan, they overthrew the high places, for which children were burnt alive, toppled down the gods for which the heathens ate human flesh and indulged in the greatest violence, and placed the banner of Yahweh over the vanquished […]