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China removes Shanghai Catholic bishop from state-run church post

December 14, 2012 China Mao Zedong, Shanghai

In a move characterised in Western media as a fresh challenge to Vatican authority, China’s state-run Catholic Church has revoked the title of the auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai. Thaddeus Ma Daqin, who is in his mid-forties, was ordained in July. His appointment had the rare approval of both Pope Benedict . . . Read More

Prosecutor yanked from Turkish Christian murder trials

December 7, 2012 Turkey Malatya

A High Council prosecutor probing links between the Malatya murders of three Christians in eastern Turkey and the earlier assassination of a Christian newspaper editor was abruptly transferred from his position last week and re-assigned prosecution duties in an Istanbul court. Prosecutor Hikmet Usta was preparing objections to the verdict . . . Read More

10 killed, four churches burned in Nigeria

December 6, 2012 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, EYN, Nigeria

Ten people were killed and four churches burned in two separate Dec. 1 attacks in northeast Nigeria by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist group. The victims included nine Christians and one Muslim, who were killed in Kwaple village, Chibok Local Government Area of Borno state . . . Read More

Uzbek pastor released from Kazakhstan prison

December 5, 2012 Kazakhstan Almaty, Kazakhstan, Makset Djabbarbergenov, Protestants, Uzbekistan

Uzbek pastor Makset Djabbarbergenov has been released from prison in Almaty, Kazakhstan. He was released Dec. 4 and taken to the airport, where he was reunited with his wife and four children. According to the Norwegian religious-freedom watchdog agency Forum 18, they were flown to Germany. After arrival at Frankfurt . . . Read More

Algerian faces 5 years in prison for sharing Christian faith

December 2, 2012 Algeria Oran

Accusers who say an Algerian Christian insulted Islam provided no evidence to a judge hearing the Christian’s appeal of his original sentence. Karim Siaghi, a convert to Christianity, was sentenced in May 2011 to five years in prison and fined 200,000 Algerian Dinars, or about U.S. $2,500, even though prosecutors . . . Read More

Syrian Christians targeted for their politics or their faith?

November 30, 2012 Syria Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, Civil War, Damascus, Free Syrian Army, Homs, Qatana, Refugees, Syria, UN

Wednesday 28th’s twin deadly car bombs in the Christian and Druze suburb of Jaramana in the Syrian capital Damascus appeared to target two communities which so far have not joined the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad’s government. State media said “terrorists” were behind the blasts, which killed at least 38 . . . Read More

Nigeria – twin suicide attacks on Kaduna church, after future Archbishop of Canterbury visits

November 27, 2012 Nigeria Abuja, Boko Haram, Borno, Christian Association of Nigeria, Church of Christ in Nigeria, Kaduna, Kano, Maiduguri, Nigeria, Sultan of Sokoto, Taraba

Amidst continuing attacks on Churches and Christian communities in northern Nigeria, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair has launched a faith-based programme to promote religious tolerance in the country. Eleven people were killed and thirty others injured in two successive suicide attacks on Sunday, November 25 at . . . Read More

Pakistan court clears Rimsha; location remains secret as risk remains

November 20, 2012 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Blasphemy, Islamabad, Mumtaz Qadri, Pakistan, Paul Bhatti, Prophet Muhammad, Punjab, Quran, Rawalpindi, Rimsha Masih, Salmaan Taseer

The case against Rimsha Masih, the teenage Pakistani Christian girl, has today been dropped by the court in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. Rimsha, who was arrested in August on suspicion of desecrating Islamic texts, was originally charged in an adult court with blasphemy; there the penalty was life imprisonment. The . . . Read More

Sudan border dispute brings destitution to thousands

November 19, 2012 Sudan Abyei, African Union, Dinka, Episcopal Church of Sudan, IDPs, Khartoum, Sharia, South Sudan, Sudan, Trauma

As politicians wrangle ahead of an early December deadline over the still-disputed status of the oil-rich region of Abyei, straddling the border of Sudan and South Sudan, local church leaders appeal for help in the face of a potential humanitarian crisis. Both governments have been asked to approve an African . . . Read More

Christians consider China’s leadership change: Q&A with Brent Fulton

November 16, 2012 China Beijing, China, Communism, Mao Zedong, Shouwang Church, Sichuan, Xi Jinping

China introduced its new Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Chinese Communist Party to its people and the world Thursday. The seven-man team sits at the very top of the government that will run the world’s most populous country for the next 10 years. The team is the . . . Read More

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