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UK wants to build international coalition to address Christian persecution

January 30, 2019 Global News -- No Particular Country Human rights, Religious freedom, UK

The war in Syria not just heavily damaged churches like the Greek Orthodox church in the old quarter of Aleppo, it also shattered well-establlished Christian communities. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The United Kingdom wants to build an international coalition of countries to address the persecution of Christians around the world, its Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said at the launch of an independent review of the issue today, 30 January, in London. Hunt announced the initiative of an independent review into . . . Read More

Iraq: UN team starts probe into IS war crimes

January 25, 2019 Iraq Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, UN

Destroyed market in the town of Bartella, 15km east of Mosul, which was liberated from IS by Iraqi forces in October 2016. (Photo World Watch Monitor)

One of the world’s most influential Muslim clerics has told a UN team that an investigation into “heinous crimes” committed against Christian and other Iraqi minorities was welcome and urgent, reports Agenzia Fides The team, known as UNITAD, started its work formally this month following a UN resolution in September 2017. . . . Read More

Vietnamese government urged to cease persecution of religious minorities ahead of UN review

January 22, 2019 Human rights, Minorities, Nguyễn Trung Tôn, Nguyen Van Dai, Religion Law, Vietnam

Vietnamese human rights lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, 48, was sentenced to 15 years in jail in April. (Photo: -/AFP/Getty Images)

Religious freedom advocates have called on the Vietnamese government to cease persecution of Christians and members of other religious minorities, including torture. Their calls come ahead of the UN Review of the country’s human rights records in Geneva today, 22 January. Non-governmental organisations said in their submission to the UN . . . Read More

Indonesia: Cutting of burial cross in public cemetery ‘against constitution’

December 21, 2018 Indonesia Burial, Crosses, Indonesia, Java, Religious freedom

Inside a church in Indonesia. Villagers in Central Java requested the top of a burial cross to be cut before a Catholic was to be buried in what is a public cemetery but is regarded by Muslim groups as 'their' graveyard. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The removal of a cross on the grave of a Catholic before he could be buried in an Indonesian public cemetery has been condemned by the country’s church leaders, reports the Catholic news agency UCAN. Albertus Slamet Sugihardi died in the village of Purbayan, in the province of Central Java. . . . Read More

India: Life sentence for top politician gives hope for justice for Kandhamal Christians

December 21, 2018 India Anti-conversion law, Christmas, India, Jharkhand, Kandhamal, Madhya Pradesh, Minorities, Odisha, Tamil Nadu

Rights activists say the lifetime prison sentence given to a top politician in India on 17 December for his involvement in the riots that led to the killing of thousands of Sikhs in 1984, gives hope to India’s Christian minority still waiting for justice, reports Matters India. The High Court . . . Read More

Egypt: Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts

December 20, 2018 Egypt Cairo, Copts, Egypt, Helwan, Islamic State

A funeral is held for the eight victims of the attack on the Mar Mina Church in Helwan on 29 December last year. Photo: Getty Images)

Eleven men suspected of an attack Coptic Christians in Egypt’s capital Cairo a year ago will have to appear before a criminal court, reports Coptic news site Watani. The suspects were caught by police following a double attack on the Mar Mina and Pope Kyrillos VI Coptic Orthodox Church in the . . . Read More

Iran: Crackdown on Christians continues with reports of beatings

December 19, 2018 Iran Ahwaz, Converts, House churches, Iran, Karaj, Khuzestan, Mashhad

Christian leaders in Iran have said that pressure on Christians increases every year around Christmas but that this year it is particularly severe. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

At least seven Iranian Christian converts have been arrested in Iran in the last two weeks, including two sisters who allegedly have been beaten. Shima Zanganeh, 27, and her sister, Shokoufeh, 30, were arrested by Intelligence Service officials in their homes in Ahvaz, capital of Iran’s western Khuzestan province, on 2 . . . Read More

Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict escalates due to government inaction – Amnesty International

December 18, 2018 Nigeria Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen, Middle Belt, Nigeria, Plateau

Since 2017 conflicts between Nigeria's herders and farmers have become increasingly violent and deadly, says Amnesty. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Almost 4,000 people have been killed and thousands displaced in fighting between herders and farmers in Nigeria’s middle belt in the past three years, Amnesty International says in a new report. Amnesty, who started documenting clashes in January 2016, said yesterday (17 December) violence was increasing with more than half . . . Read More

Algerian court orders reopening of bookshop managed by Christian

December 18, 2018 Algeria Aïn Turk, Algeria, Churches, Oran, Protestant Church of Algeria

Churches and individual Christians in Muslim-majority Algeria have faced increased restrictions in recent months. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A bookshop owned by a Christian in Algeria can reopen its doors following a court order, reports Christian advocacy group Middle East Concern (MEC). The court’s decision on 13 December annulled an earlier order by the Governor of Oran to close the bookshop in Ain Turk, 30km west of Oran, . . . Read More

IS ‘won’t escape justice’ after Trump signs genocide accountability act

December 13, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Donald Trump, Genocide, Iraq, Islamic State, Syria, UN, USA

US President Donald Trump signs the "Iraq and Syria Genocide Relief and Accountability Act of 2018" in the presence of, among others, Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil, Iraq (l). (Photo: Getty)

US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that will help to ensure aid is provided to Islamic State’s victims in Iraq and Syria and to hold the perpetrators accountable, reports Associated Press (AP). “In recent years, IS has committed horrifying atrocities against religious and ethnic minorities in Syria . . . Read More

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UK wants to build international coalition to address Christian persecution

Iraq: UN team starts probe into IS war crimes

Vietnamese government urged to cease persecution of religious minorities ahead of UN review

Indonesia: Cutting of burial cross in public cemetery ‘against constitution’

India: Life sentence for top politician gives hope for justice for Kandhamal Christians

Egypt: Eleven men sent for trial for attacking Copts

Iran: Crackdown on Christians continues with reports of beatings

Nigeria’s herder-farmer conflict escalates due to government inaction – Amnesty International

Algerian court orders reopening of bookshop managed by Christian

IS ‘won’t escape justice’ after Trump signs genocide accountability act

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