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US ‘passive’ on IS’s ‘war on Christianity’

March 13, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Assyrians, Chaldeans, Genocide, Islamic State, Middle East, Syria, USA

The Islamic State is “crucifying Christians and demolishing ancient churches” in a “war on Christianity” in the Middle East, according to an opinion piece on the US-based website, Foreign Policy. Why, the title asks, is this being met with silence from the halls of Congress to Sunday sermons? In-house writers . . . Read More

Vietnam still violates religious freedom

March 12, 2015 Vietnam Cambodia, Minorities, Montagnards, Religious freedom, UN, Vietnam

The message at the annual UN Human Rights Council in Geneva this week was clear: Vietnam still struggles to ensure religious freedom for its citizens. ‘Whereas religious life and religious diversity are a reality in Vietnam today, autonomy and activities of independent religious or belief communities – that is, unrecognised . . . Read More

UN Security Council is ‘failing Syria’

March 12, 2015 Syria Civil War, Syria, UK, UN, USA

Leading humanitarian groups, including Oxfam and Save the Children, in a report to mark four years of the Syrian war, accuse UN Security Council members of lacking the will to stop the fighting. The Failing Syria report says the 15-member Security Council, which includes the US and UK, has not . . . Read More

Turkey moves Malatya murder trial court

March 11, 2015 Turkey Ankara, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, Malatya, Turkey

In still another delay in a years-long trial over the 2007 murders of three Christians in southeast Turkey, the Zirve Publishing House trial is to be moved away from the place where the murders happened, Malatya, to another province. The pending court transfer stems from a legislative amendment which has . . . Read More

Mid East Christians on UN Security Council agenda?

March 10, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country France, Middle East, Minorities, Morocco, Rabat, UN

France, whose turn it is to preside over the next UN Security Council meeting on March 27th, says that it plans to discuss the situation of Christians and other minorities in the Middle East. The French Foreign Minister, Laurent Fabius, told a news conference in Rabat, Morocco on 9 March that . . . Read More

Charges relaxed for murderer of Asia Bibi defender

March 9, 2015 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Mumtaz Qadri, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Salmaan Taseer, Women

When Mumtaz Qadri confessed to the 2011 murder of Pakistani politician Salman Taseer, he said he did it because the Punjab governor had supported a Christian woman, Aasiya Noreen (also known as Asia Bibi), facing the death penalty for blasphemy. Qadri, who was Taseer’s bodyguard, was himself sentenced to death, . . . Read More

Fixing Pakistan’s ‘broken’ blasphemy laws

March 8, 2015 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Minorities, Pakistan, Pakistan Ulema Council, Rimsha Masih

Al-Jazeera at Pakistan’s volatile religious politics through the eyes of two Muslims trying to reform the country’s notorious anti-blasphemy laws. Attorney Saif-ul-Malook, for whom Aasiya Noreen (also known as Asia Bibi) is the latest of several clients he has defended against charges of offending Islam, lives in daily fear of an . . . Read More

Christian wears hijab for Lent

March 6, 2015 Hijab, Jordan

A Christian woman has chosen to wear a hijab for Lent to see what it feels like to be an outsider. Jessey Eagan, director of a children’s programme at a church in Illinois, USA, lived in Jordan for 18 months where she felt as if she ‘stuck out like a sore thumb,’ she told . . . Read More

Canada confirms pastor detained in North Korea

March 6, 2015 North Korea China, Hyeon Soo Lim, Kenneth Bae, North Korea, South Korea, USA

The Canadian government has confirmed to the family of pastor Hyeon Soo Lim that he has been detained in North Korea. This follows earlier reports that nobody had heard from Lim, 60, since he crossed the Chinese border on 31 January. Lim, who is married with one son, grew up . . . Read More

Another Copt beheaded in Libya

March 5, 2015 Libya Copts, Islamic State, Libya

Libyan security forces have found the beheaded body of another Egyptian Coptic Christian, Egypt’s official Middle East News Agency reports. Discovered Mar. 2 on the outskirts of Mechili town in eastern Libya, the body was identified by his cousins as Mansour Saad Awad, who had been working at a poultry . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

US ‘passive’ on IS’s ‘war on Christianity’

Vietnam still violates religious freedom

UN Security Council is ‘failing Syria’

Turkey moves Malatya murder trial court

Mid East Christians on UN Security Council agenda?

Charges relaxed for murderer of Asia Bibi defender

Fixing Pakistan’s ‘broken’ blasphemy laws

Christian wears hijab for Lent

Canada confirms pastor detained in North Korea

Another Copt beheaded in Libya

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