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Three Iranian Christians sentenced to 6 years each

October 23, 2014 Iran Behnam Irani, Church of Iran, Exile, Iran, Karaj

Iran has dropped capital charges against church leaders Behnam Irani, Abdolreza “Matthias” Ali-Haghnejad and Reza “Silas” Rabbani, but sentenced each of them to six years imprisonment to be served in exile in remote regions of Iran. Initially charged with “spreading corruption on earth,” a charge that carries the death sentence, . . . Read More

Scores dead in DR Congo attacks

October 23, 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sharia, Uganda

A group of Ugandan rebels are suspected of killing more than 20 people in an Oct. 16 attack on the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Beni’s mayor said the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist force with hopes of establishing Islamic law in Uganda, was behind the . . . Read More

Top Indonesian cop: Dismantle Islamic Front

October 23, 2014

The top-ranking police official of the world’s most populous Muslim country has declared that the Islamic Defenders Front should be eliminated. The Front, responsible for a decade of attacks on Christians and their churches, “should be dissolved once and for all,” Indonesian National Police Chief Sutarman, himself a Muslim, said. . . . Read More

Several Nigerians killed immediatly after truce

October 20, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Nigeria

Dozens have been killed in at least five attacks in Adamawa state soon after the Nigerian government said they reached a ceasefire agreement with Boko Haram on Friday. The Islamist extremist group has not yet claimed responsibility, but its militants are the assumed perpetrators. One of the conditions of the . . . Read More

Reports: Cease-fire with Boko Haram reached

October 17, 2014 Nigeria Adamawa, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, EYN, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Samuel Dali

Nigerian defense officials are saying that the government has reached a cease-fire agreement with Boko Haram, and that one of the terms of the deal is the release of 276 girls kidnapped in April from their school in the village of Chibok. Various news agencies inside and outside Nigeria have . . . Read More

1,800 Iraqi Christians now in Jordan

October 17, 2014 Jordan Amman, Iraq, Islamic State, Jordan, King Abdullah II, Refugees

The BBC reports the laments of some Christians who have just moved to Jordanian refugee camps and who say their lives have been destroyed by IS. About 1,800 Iraqi Christians from the area surrounding Mosul first escaped IS by going to Erbil, but are now temporarily sheltering in Jordan upon the . . . Read More

IS occupied Iraqi church bombed

October 17, 2014

Fides Agency has reported that bombings carried out by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) in the Nineveh plain have destroyed a church. The Church of the Resurrection near Qaraqosh was targeted because reports said IS jihadists occupied it as a logistics base. They had removed its cross . . . Read More

Heavy rain in northern Iraq floods refugee camps

October 17, 2014 Iraq IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Refugees

Heavy rain on Thursday in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has flooded the refugee camps where many Christians live after fleeing Islamic State militia. It has forced the refugees to look elsewhere for accommodation, which will put further pressure on other camps and Christian homes already housing relatives and friends. . . . Read More

Death sentence for Asia Bibi confirmed

October 16, 2014 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Lahore, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Quran

Asia Bibi, the Pakistani Christian woman accused of blasphemy and sentenced to death in 2010 has today had her sentence confirmed by the Lahore High Court. She is the first Christian woman to be given the death penalty under Pakistan’s notorious blasphemy laws, and her case sparked global condemnation. She was accused of . . . Read More

Feast of Tabernacles spotlights Christian ‘plight’

October 13, 2014 Israel Israel, Middle East

“The plight of Christian communities in the Middle East” will be the focus of the six-day Feast of Tabernacles in . Sponsored by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, the event is meant to be an occasion to “rejoice in the power of God, remember His past provisions, and celebrate His . . . Read More

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Three Iranian Christians sentenced to 6 years each

Scores dead in DR Congo attacks

Top Indonesian cop: Dismantle Islamic Front

Several Nigerians killed immediatly after truce

Reports: Cease-fire with Boko Haram reached

1,800 Iraqi Christians now in Jordan

IS occupied Iraqi church bombed

Heavy rain in northern Iraq floods refugee camps

Death sentence for Asia Bibi confirmed

Feast of Tabernacles spotlights Christian ‘plight’

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