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Another view of Egypt’s violence

August 27, 2013 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood

While much of Egypt and the world fixates on the fate of the Muslim Brotherhood and their attacks on Coptic churches, Timothy Kaldas sees something else: “The state’s cynical use of Christian suffering to justify its violent behavior.” Despite the fact that attacks on Christian churches and communities have been . . . Read More

Algierian military seizes Christian man

August 27, 2013 Algeria Algeria, Protestant Church of Algeria

An Algerian Christian has been arrested, his home searched and his computer seized, without explanation, according to the Protestant Church of Algeria. The man, identified by the name Sofiane, was riding in a taxi Aug. 23 when he was stopped at a military checkpoint near Biskra, about 500 kilometres south . . . Read More

CAR rebels killed; church attacked

August 26, 2013 Central African Republic Central African Republic, Seleka

A spiral of reprisal violence in the western portion of the Central African Republic this month has resulted in the desecration of a Catholic parish and has forced 18 priests and nuns to flee, according to Agenzia Fides, the Vatican’s missionary news service. The trouble began earlier this month when . . . Read More

Senator pushes for religious freedom envoy

August 23, 2013 Copts, Egypt, Middle East, Religious freedom, USA

US Senator Roy Blunt is renewing his call for the State Department to create a special envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East. Blunt, a Republican from Missouri, introduced the necessary legislation in March. This week, in the wake of widespread attacks on Christian churches, schools and other facilities . . . Read More

Report: Nigeria violence is sectarian

August 20, 2013 Nigeria Boko Haram, Islamic extremism, Nigeria, Religious freedom

Boko Haram is the foremost perpetrator of religiously motivated violence in Nigeria, claims a new report issued by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The report, issued Aug. 19 as an update to a July 2012 report, documents dozens of Boko Haram attacks on churches and individual Christians since . . . Read More

Beaten Chinese pastor suspects regime

August 20, 2013 China China, House churches

A Chinese house church leader who was abducted and beaten while driving home last week said he suspects local government agents, China Aid reports. Li Shuangping, leader of Linfen house church, was dragged from his car on Aug. 13 and assaulted by four men, who threatened to kill Li and . . . Read More

Jail then exile for Iranian convert

August 20, 2013 Iran Ebrahim Firouzi, Exile, Iran

Iranian Christian convert Ebrahim Firouzi, 28, has been jailed for one year for “evangelism activities [which are] considered in opposition to the regime of the Republic Islamic of Iran”. (Source: Mohabat) Firouzi, who was arrested in March and could not afford a lawyer, will then spend two years in exile . . . Read More

‘Your wife arrested, your father dead’

August 19, 2013 Iran Converts, Farshid Fathi, Iran, Prisons

An imprisoned Iranian convert to Christianity has spoken of the “mental torture” he has experienced since his arrest in December 2010. Mohabat News reports that Farshid Fathi, who is serving a six-year jail term for being the “chief director of a foreign organisation in Iran and raising funds for [them]”, . . . Read More

Egyptian pastor ‘fine and safe’

August 16, 2013 Egypt Asyut, Egypt, Seventh-day Adventists

Reports that an Egyptian pastor was kidnapped on Thursday (Aug. 15) were false, according to The World Today, a Swedish newspaper. Nasralla Salib, pastor of a Seventh-Day Adventist church in Asyut, on Friday (Aug. 16) told the newspaper he was “fine and safe”, having been sheltered from trouble by Muslim . . . Read More

Crisis deepens as Cairo camps cleared

August 14, 2013 Egypt Alexandria, Cairo, Egypt, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Sohag, Suez

The Wall Street Journal reports that a number of churches have been attacked and some set on fire in Egypt following the bloody clearing of Morsi supporters from Cairo ‘camps’. Churches in the town of Sohag and village of Delga were reportedly set on fire while churches in the Abou . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

Catching Our Eye

Another view of Egypt’s violence

Algierian military seizes Christian man

CAR rebels killed; church attacked

Senator pushes for religious freedom envoy

Report: Nigeria violence is sectarian

Beaten Chinese pastor suspects regime

Jail then exile for Iranian convert

‘Your wife arrested, your father dead’

Egyptian pastor ‘fine and safe’

Crisis deepens as Cairo camps cleared

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