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Despite human rights abuse, Sudan wants US talks

September 22, 2016 Sudan Abdulmonem Abdumawla, Churches, Genocide, Hassan Taour, Kadugli, Khartoum, Kuwa Shamal, Nuba Mountains, Omar al-Bashir, Petr Jašek, Religious freedom, Sanctions, Sharia, South Kordofan, South Sudan, Sudan, USA

Senior Sudanese and US officials are due to meet today (22 Sep.) in New York to discuss a possible partial lifting of sanctions on Khartoum, Sudanese media reports have said. The hint at possible “rapprochement” between Washington and Khartoum comes despite continued human rights violations by the latter; the Islamist . . . Read More

C. African Republic: pastor among scores killed

September 20, 2016 Central African Republic Anti-balaka, Central African Republic, Kaga Bandoro, Seleka, UN

A local pastor (yet to be named) was among scores killed as members of the predominantly Muslim Seleka rebel group attacked communities around the town of Kaga Bandoro, 350km north of the Central African Republic capital, Bangui. In the village of Ndomete, the rebels killed 26 people as they went door . . . Read More

Talks to free Chibok girls failed three times

September 20, 2016 Nigeria Chibok girls, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria

The Nigerian government has, for the first time, disclosed its failure to secure the release of girls kidnapped by the radical Islamist group Boko Haram from the northern town of Chibok in April 2014. On 16 September, Nigeria said that negotiations have gone on since July 2015, shortly after President . . . Read More

Hurricane of violence has left landscape of blood

September 19, 2016 Nigeria Fulani herdsmen, Kidnapping, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Sharia

Nigerian Catholic bishops, deploring have called on President Muhammadu Buhari to restore confidence amidst growing public frustration with his government. President Buhari was elected in Feb. 2015 on a platform of change and reform, but the clerics say “most Nigerians are today disillusioned by the frittering away of the high . . . Read More

Iranian Christian back in prison again

September 19, 2016 Iran Apostasy, Converts, Iran, Islamic extremism, Maryam Naghash Zargaran, Prisons, Saeed Abedini

On 17 Sep., Maryam Naghash Zargaran was returned to prison after her medical treatment was again cut short. Her friends and family reported that she was again unable to receive adequate treatment during her time at home. Amnesty International has in its prisons. Amnesty mentioned Zargaran, an Iranian Christian who . . . Read More

Eritrea begins European offensive in Germany

September 9, 2016 Eritrea Asylum seekers, Eritrea, Europe, Migrants, Refugees

Two Eritrean Ministers are in Germany at the start of a campaign to overcome European opposition to doing a deal with a government the UN labels “a serial abuser of human rights”; the UN says 5,000 people leave Eritrea every month. Eritrea, politically isolated for years, and often called the . . . Read More

Egypt’s Christians ‘at breaking point’ says bishop

September 8, 2016 Egypt Anba Macarius, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Minya, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Upper Egypt

Christians feel “under siege” in Egypt after a series of attacks this summer, and continued difficulties faced by the community in building churches, the New York Times reports. In Minya (Upper Egypt) alone, Copts continue to “suffer violence and humiliation”. Houses have been burned, Copts attacked on the streets and . . . Read More

Only 0.5% Syrian refugees now in US are Christian

September 7, 2016 Syria Iraq, Islamic State, Lebanon, Refugees, Syria, USA

Christians were a meagre half-percent of the Syrian refugees welcomed to the United States in 2016, according to a report researched by Fox News. The figure, representing a minority group Washington has already described as subject to genocide, contrasts sharply with last year’s estimated 10% Christian population of Syria. Since . . . Read More

Faked ‘news’ targets Turkey’s Patriarch

September 7, 2016 Turkey Coup, Fethullah Gülen, Patriarch Bartholomew I, Turkey

Turkey’s national media published a spate of fabricated reports in late August, in backing the 15 July coup attempt against the Turkish government. The strongly pro-government Aksam newspaper first broke the alleged “news” in a front-page article on 30 Aug., headlined “Patriarchate-CIA Gulen Alliance.” The story quoted an article posted . . . Read More

Attackers torch Tanzanian university

September 5, 2016 Tanzania Africa, Kenya, Tanzania

A security guard was killed and two other people seriously injured at a private university in north-east Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, on 2 September when a mob attacked and set fire to the campus. Students at the Lutheran Church-owned Sebastian Kolowa Memorial University in Lushoto escaped through small . . . Read More

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Catching Our Eye

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Despite human rights abuse, Sudan wants US talks

C. African Republic: pastor among scores killed

Talks to free Chibok girls failed three times

Hurricane of violence has left landscape of blood

Iranian Christian back in prison again

Eritrea begins European offensive in Germany

Egypt’s Christians ‘at breaking point’ says bishop

Only 0.5% Syrian refugees now in US are Christian

Faked ‘news’ targets Turkey’s Patriarch

Attackers torch Tanzanian university

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