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Anti-Christian slogans in Jerusalem alarm Church

May 12, 2014 Israel Arabs, Catholics, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Palestinian Territories

Jerusalem’s Roman Catholic Church has expressed alarm over threats to Christians scrawled by suspected Jewish extremists on church property in the Holy Land. In an incident, known as ‘price-tagging’, “Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel” was written in Hebrew on an outer column of the . . . Read More

Keeping hope alive in Syria

May 7, 2014 Syria Education, Homs, Syria

A friend and colleague of murdered Jesuit priest Father Frans van der Lugt has received more aid to continue to helping destitute families in Syria. Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need is supporting a pastoral centre in the city of Homs headed by Fr Ziad Hilal SJ. The . . . Read More

Egypt’s Sisi: Brotherhood is finished

May 6, 2014 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood

The man likely to become Egypt’s new president after the May 26-27 balloting told a nationwide television audience Monday that the Muslim Brotherhood would cease to exist after his election. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, the former Army field marshall who in 2013 directed the removal of former President Mohamed Morsi, gave his . . . Read More

Sudan bombs Catholic hospital

May 6, 2014 Sudan Catholics, Nuba Mountains, South Kordofan, Sudan

A Sudanese military aircraft dropped bombs near a Catholic hospital May 1, sending patients, some of them still connected to IV bags, fleeing into foxholes in the bush. Nuba Reports has dramatic video here. Two bombing passes by the jet fighter caused only a few minor injuries and rattled the . . . Read More

List: 165 kidnapped girls are Christian

May 5, 2014 Nigeria Borno, Chibok girls, Christian Association of Nigeria, Nigeria

Of the 200 or more girls kidnapped April 14 from a boarding school in Chibok, Nigeria, at least 165 of them are Christian, according to a list of names and a statement released Sunday, May 4, by a former chairman of an affiliate of the Christian Association of Nigeria. Neither . . . Read More

First Christian ever to run for Syrian presidency

May 1, 2014 Syria Bashar al-Assad, Syria

Shamih Mikhael Moussa, born in Btaiha, Syria in 1963, is the first Christian trying to run for President of the Arab Republic. The deadline for submitting one’s application for candidacy to the Constitutional Court expired on May 1, but the country’s 3 June presidential elections, anticipates another win by President . . . Read More

Tony Blair calls for focus on radical Islam

April 23, 2014 Global News -- No Particular Country China, Islamic extremism, London, Middle East, Russia, Tony Blair, UK, Ukraine

Former UK Prime Minister and now Middle East envoy Tony Blair has encouraged Western leaders to focus on the threat of Islamic extremism and to put aside their differences with Russia over Ukraine. In his speech at Bloomberg’s London office Mr Blair called on Western leaders to “elevate the issue . . . Read More

Sharia postponed in Brunei

April 23, 2014 Brunei Brunei, Islamic extremism, Prophet Muhammad, Sharia, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, UN

Brunei’s all-powerful Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has postponed the introduction of tough Islamic criminal punishments that were due to begin on April 22. Brunei said in October that it would introduce Islamic law (Sharia) punishments including flogging, death by stoning and the severing of limbs for theft. No new date was given . . . Read More

Seleka releases Bossangoa Catholics

April 17, 2014 Central African Republic Bossangoa, Central African Republic, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, Seleka, UN

The Archbishop of Bossangoa and three priests were released within 24 hours of being kidnapped by Seleka rebels in the Northern town of the Central African Republic. “I spoke to him and he told me he is well”, said the Archbishop of Bangui, Dieudonné Nzapalainga, adding that they are now . . . Read More

Killing in Kessab

April 17, 2014 Syria Aleppo, Armenians, Islamic extremism, Syria

Further details have emerged of what’s been happening since the invasion of Kessab by Islamist rebels, which sent thousands of Syrians fleeing the predominantly Armenian Christian town. According to a World Watch Monitor source 23-year-old Kevork Jourian was killed by members of Syrian rebel groups as they were searching for guns . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Anti-Christian slogans in Jerusalem alarm Church

Keeping hope alive in Syria

Egypt’s Sisi: Brotherhood is finished

Sudan bombs Catholic hospital

List: 165 kidnapped girls are Christian

First Christian ever to run for Syrian presidency

Tony Blair calls for focus on radical Islam

Sharia postponed in Brunei

Seleka releases Bossangoa Catholics

Killing in Kessab

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