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Bibi with Punjab Governor, Salmaan Taseer, who was assassinated in 2011 for supporting her case. (Photo: Office of the Governor of Punjab)

October 11, 2018 Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Minorities, Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan

Pakistan: Islamic groups threaten Supreme Court judges ahead of Asia Bibi ruling

Radical religious groups in Pakistan have called for mass protests and threatened the judges of the country’s Supreme Court in Islamabad ahead of their ruling in . . . Read More

October 10, 2018 Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Algeria, Protestant Church of Algeria

Algeria: Christian family accused of ‘proselytism’ – hearing postponed

Five Algerian Christians accused of “proselytism” will appear in court on 6 November, in Bouira, in Algeria’s north-eastern region of Kabylie. They had been due to . . . Read More

October 9, 2018 Andrew Brunson, Ankara, Donald Trump, Izmir, PKK, Protestants, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey, USA

Andrew Brunson’s legal appeal sent to Turkey’s highest court

Jailed US pastor Andrew Brunson’s lawyer has filed a formal appeal before the Turkish Constitutional Court to overturn two lower court refusals to release his client . . . Read More

Aasiya Noreen, a Pakistani Christian woman, has been on death row for over eight years for alleged blasphemy. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

October 8, 2018 Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Islamabad, Jan Figel, Mumtaz Qadri, Pakistan, Salmaan Taseer, Shahbaz Bhatti, Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan

Pakistan’s Supreme Court hears Asia Bibi’s ‘blasphemy’ appeal but delays ruling

Pakistan’s Supreme Court in the capital Islamabad has finally heard the much-delayed appeal of Asia Bibi, the first Christian woman sentenced to death under Pakistan’s blasphemy . . . Read More

October 5, 2018 Hindutva, Kandhamal, Odisha

Ten years after arrest of their illiterate husbands, Indian wives wait for justice

It was around midnight on 4 October 2008 that Munda and Sanathan Badamajhi, and Durjo Sunamajhi, were arrested by dozens of police in their shanty homes in India’s eastern Odisha state. . . . Read More

Congolese gynaecologist Denis Mukwege (l) and Nadia Murad, survivor of IS captivity and advocate for the Yazidi people in Iraq, were awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for their work in fighting sexual violence in conflict around the world. (Photo: Getty Images)

October 5, 2018 Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Islamic State, Women, Yazidis

Nobel Peace Prize for two campaigners against rape as a weapon of war

The Congolese physician Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad, a Yazidi, are awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize today, 5 October, “for their efforts to end the . . . Read More

Catching Our Eye

1,000 days since kidnap of 84-year-old doctor in Burkina Faso, family plea for freedom

Kenya: Two Christian teachers killed by suspected Al-Shabaab attackers

Nigerian Islamist extremists kill aid worker ‘for work for Red Cross’; Christians ‘slaves for life’

Iraqi Christian boy Noeh, under his own roof again

Brunson freed, permitted to leave country

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