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Iran’s nuclear programme ‘distracting’ world from rights abuses

November 8, 2013 Iran Barack Obama, Hassan Rouhani, Human rights, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Mostafa Bordbar, Saeed Abedini, UN

Former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on a tour of an Iranian nuclear facility.Pere Ubu / Flickr / Creative Commons An Iranian Nobel Prize-winner has warned EU and US officials that Iran’s nuclear programme is distracting them from addressing the country’s human rights abuses. Shirin Ebadi, now living in the UK, . . . Read More

Radical Islamists ‘control much of northern Syria’

November 7, 2013 Syria Bashar al-Assad, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Maaloula, Raqqa, Sadad

CNN claims ISIS has taken control of key entry points into the city of Aleppo.David Holt / Flickr / Creative Commons A new survey of Syrian towns by CNN suggests that much of northern Syria has come under the control of radical Islamist groups. CNN claims that Islamist militants, . . . Read More

Iranian Christian jailed for 10 years freed

November 5, 2013 Iran Evin Prison, Hassan Rouhani, Maryam Jalili, Mitra Rahmati, Mostafa Bordbar, Saeed Abedini, Tehran

An Iranian Christian sentenced to 10 years in prison has been released after three months. Mostafa Bordbar, 27, was released Nov. 3 from Tehran’s Evin Prison after charges of participating in an “anti-security organisation” and “gathering with intent to commit crimes against Iranian national security” were overturned. Bordbar was arrested . . . Read More

Disputed area of Abyei votes to join South Sudan

November 4, 2013 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Blue Nile, Darfur, Dinka, Kadugli, Khartoum, South Kordofan, South Sudan

Agok town in the disputed Abyei area.ENOUGH Project / Flickr / Creative Commons Sudan, already facing regional insurgencies and austerity riots, is on the brink of more violence along its border with South Sudan. Human rights groups say that the fate of Abyei, an area half the size of . . . Read More

Vietnamese Catholics jailed despite protests

November 1, 2013 Vietnam Catholics, Hanoi

Two Vietnamese Catholics whose arrest led to protests last month have been handed jail terms. Nguyen Van Hai, 43, and Ngo Van Khoi, 53, were ordered on Oct. 23 to serve six and seven months, respectively, for “disturbing public order”. The charges relate to an incident on May 22, when . . . Read More

Christian woman dies in Eritrean jail, as prisoner of conscience

November 1, 2013 Eritrea Adi Quala, Asylum seekers, UN

Shipping containers, such as these photographed in South Sudan, are used as makeshift prison cells in neighbouring Eritrea. Wehazit Berhane Debesai died during the week of Oct. 14 in an Eritrea prison, though it was not reported if she was being held in a shipping containter.Courtesy Open Doors International . . . Read More

Iranians jailed for ‘house church’ attendance

October 30, 2013 Iran Hassan Rouhani, Shiraz

Four Iranian Christians jailed for attending a ‘house church’ have lost their judicial appeals. Mojtaba Seyyed Alaedin Hossein, Mohammad-Reza Partoei, Vahid Hakkani and Homayoun Shokouhi were each sentenced in June to three years and eight months in prison. Shokouhi’s wife Fariba and son Nima both received suspended sentences of two . . . Read More

Two pastors killed in Kenya

October 29, 2013 Kenya Al-Shabaab, East Africa, Mombasa, Nairobi, Pentecostals, Somalia, Uhuru Kenyatta, Westgate

Mombasa.Lauren Pressley / Flickr / Creative Commons Two pastors from southern coastal towns in Kenya were killed last weekend in separate attacks. Charles Mathole, a leader of Mombasa’s Redeemed Gospel Church in Mtopanga, was found dead in church on the morning of Sunday October 20, shot in the head . . . Read More

One third of Syrian Christians have gone, says cleric

October 23, 2013 Syria Arab Spring, Maaloula, Syria

Many Christians have fled from their homes in places such as the historic city of Maaloula.Mounir Soussi Idrissi / Flickr / Creative Commons Almost a third of Syria’s Christians have left since the start of the civil war, according to one of the country’s senior clerics. Syria’s most senior Catholic . . . Read More

Clerics call on UN military force to secure Central African Republic

October 22, 2013 Central African Republic Bangui, Chad, Seleka, Sudan, UN

Church leaders in the Central African Republic have issued a joint appeal for international action.World Watch Monitor The leaders of the Central African Republic’s 4 million Christians have issued a joint plea for military help to disarm a largely Muslim insurgency and prevent “genocidal interfaith civil war”. Meeting Oct. 3-6 . . . Read More

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