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Iraq: Christian school’s reopening a ‘victory over extremism’

November 8, 2018 Iraq Children, Education, Iraq, Islamic State, Minorities, Mosul, Terrorism

The reopening of the oldest Christian school in Mosul – a northern Iraqi city once controlled by IS – has been hailed as a “victory over terrorism and extremism”. The Shimon Safa Elementary School was closed for four years, but has welcomed 400 students – aged between six and 12 . . . Read More

Nepal: 4 women arrested for ‘attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity’

November 8, 2018 Nepal Anti-conversion law, Dalits, Kathmandu, Nepal, Proselytism

Nepal Entry, Meeting Sonam Tsering (guitarist, leads tours up to Annapurna, surprisingly a Christian Tibetan), Intro to everything, Pema Wangdi Lama recording studio, Boudhanath 1 (Flickr / Damien KR / CC)

Four Christian women were arrested earlier this week in Nepal on suspicion of attempting to convert people to Christianity by force, Asia News reports. The women – two of whom are Japanese – were accused by residents of proselytising door-to-door. They were followed and filmed, and the footage was passed . . . Read More

Lawyer: Asia Bibi is on a plane, destination unknown

November 7, 2018 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Islamabad, Lahore, Multan, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Quran, Salmaan Taseer, Sheikhupura

Asia Bibi is finally free, almost one decade after she was first imprisoned. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

The lawyer for Aasiya Noreen said 7 Nov. that the Pakistani Christian, whose blasphemy conviction was overturned 31 Oct., was on a plane, destination undisclosed. “No one knows where she will land,” the lawyer, Saiful Malook, told Agence France-Presse in a message via Twitter posted at 7:40 p.m. GMT: In his . . . Read More

Bangladesh PM says anyone who offends Islam will be prosecuted

November 7, 2018 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Blasphemy, Christmas, Corruption, Dhaka, Elections, Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan, Prophet Muhammad, Sheikh Hasina, Terrorism

Bangladesh’s prime minister has pledged that anyone who offends Islam or its prophet will be prosecuted. Sheikh Hasina said the religion of Bangladesh “is Islam. Anyone who pronounces offensive comments against it, or against the Prophet Muhammad, will be prosecuted according to the law,” as reported by Asia News. Her . . . Read More

Bible translators use print-on-demand to ‘work discreetly in areas of intense persecution’

November 7, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Bibles

Bible translation company Wycliffe says its print-on-demand system enables translators “to work discreetly in areas where Christians are the targets of intense persecution”. Wycliffe says its system, which it has deployed in 26 countries, enables Bibles to be printed “in small or large quantities on a system that is easily . . . Read More

Malaysia’s ‘deep-seated tensions’ exposed by MP’s call for religious freedom

November 7, 2018 Malaysia Apostasy, Catholics, Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia, Proselytism, Putrajaya, Raymond Koh, Religious freedom, UN

A Malaysian Catholic MP’s call last month for the government to sign the UN Declaration on the Elimination of All Forms of Intolerance and of Discrimination Based on Religion or Belief has highlighted the “deep-seated tensions between ultra-conservative Muslims and the new government”, says the director of Malaysia’s Religious Freedom . . . Read More

Iraq: More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered

November 6, 2018 Iraq Anbar, Iraq, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Syria, UN

Syrian forces excavate a site, said to be a mass grave, in the west of Raqqa governorate in December last year. (Photo: Getty Images)

More than 200 mass graves containing the remains of thousands of people killed by Islamic State have been discovered in northern and western Iraq, according to a UN report released on Tuesday, 5 November. The report by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) and UN Human Rights Office documents . . . Read More

Islamists suspected of bus attack killed, as Copts mourn

November 5, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Anba Macarius, Copts, Egypt, Islamic State, Minorities, Minya, Mohamed Morsi

Egypt’s interior ministry claimed yesterday to have killed 19 Islamist militants suspected of carrying out the bus attack on Friday that killed seven Copts and injured over a dozen others. The militants were killed in a shootout in the desert area west of Minya governorate, where the attack took place, . . . Read More

Egypt: 7 dead as Coptic pilgrims targeted in another bus attack in Minya

November 2, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

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At least seven people have been killed and 14 injured in another attack on a bus of Coptic Christians travelling back from a monastery in Egypt, Reuters reports. The attack reportedly took place at almost exactly the same location as the May 2017 attack by Islamist militants which left 28 . . . Read More

‘I am currently under threat of death for preaching’ – Colombian pastor

November 2, 2018 Colombia Colombia, FARC, Medellin, Organised crime, Proselytism, Venezuela

During the 50 years conflict between Colombia's government and main rebel group, FARC-EP, churches were threatened and hundreds of church leaders assassinated by armed groups. (Photo: World Watch Monitor, 2012)

Violence in Colombia has killed 200,000 people and caused around 7 million to flee their homes over the past 50 years, making them the world’s largest internally displaced group of people, World Magazine reported last week. Violence is especially severe in rural areas. At the border with Venezuela, the magazine . . . Read More

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Iraq: Christian school’s reopening a ‘victory over extremism’

Nepal: 4 women arrested for ‘attempting to forcefully convert people to Christianity’

Lawyer: Asia Bibi is on a plane, destination unknown

Bangladesh PM says anyone who offends Islam will be prosecuted

Bible translators use print-on-demand to ‘work discreetly in areas of intense persecution’

Malaysia’s ‘deep-seated tensions’ exposed by MP’s call for religious freedom

Iraq: More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered

Islamists suspected of bus attack killed, as Copts mourn

Egypt: 7 dead as Coptic pilgrims targeted in another bus attack in Minya

‘I am currently under threat of death for preaching’ – Colombian pastor

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