Tag: Children

Chibok girls ‘forced to kill’ for Boko Haram

June 30, 2015 Nigeria Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Children, Genocide, Nigeria

Some of the kidnapped Chibok girls have been forced to join Boko Haram and carry out killings, the BBC has been told. Witnesses who escaped from the same camps that were holding some of the Chibok girls said they have been brainwashed and are being used to terrorise other captives . . . Read More

Mass arrest of Thailand’s Christian asylum seekers

March 13, 2015 Asylum seekers, Bangkok, Children, Islamic extremism, Pakistan, Refugees, Southeast Asia, Thailand, UN

Thailand’s internal political pressures on its Bangkok UNHCR office has resulted in the arrest of at least 50 Pakistani Christian asylum seekers, a church leader there told World Watch Monitor. On March 7, the Chief of Pakistan’s Christian Congress wrote to the Thai Prime Minister, about arrests of those registered . . . Read More

Life in Islamabad’s Christian slum

February 11, 2015 Pakistan Blasphemy, Children, Education, Islamabad, Pakistan

A makeshift ‘tent city’ on the outskirts of Islamabad, which has become home to Christians who’ve left Pakistan’s capital city in fear after strings of blasphemy allegations and killings, is the subject of a new photo essay by the Associated Press. Christians are shown living in simple cement-block homes or . . . Read More

Another mass kidnapping and killing in Nigeria

December 19, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Borno, Chibok girls, Children, Kidnapping, Nigeria, Women

Boko Haram is suspected to have killed at least 30 people and kidnapped as many as 200 women and children in an attack on a Nigerian village. A witness told the BBC “he helped bury 33 bodies,” and “about 200 women and children had been kidnapped from Gumsuri village in . . . Read More

Turkish public education system to offer class in Christianity for first time

October 30, 2014 Turkey Armenians, Children, Education, Europe, Islamic extremism, Shia, Sunni, Turkey

The Turkish education system’s mandatory religion classes are not fair to students who do not follow the country’s majority Sunni Islam and must amend its policies, according to a recent verdict of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). As Turkey is a signatory of the European Convention on Human . . . Read More

Children arrested during raid on Chinese church

September 25, 2014 China Children, China, Guangdong

Children were among 100 Chinese Christians detained after police raided a house church in Guangdong province, International Christian Concern (ICC) reports. Members of Mount Olivet church were held in custody for up to 20 hours. Police say they were detained for conducting an “illegal gathering”. The church of 170 parishioners . . . Read More

Girl speaks about forced conversion to Islam

September 3, 2014 Pakistan Children, Kidnapping, Marriage, Pakistan, Women

Being poor, female and Christian is “triple jeopardy” in Pakistan, says the BBC in the first of two interviews about forced conversion. Click here to watch (for 1’20”) 15-year-old Zeba Masih talk about her experience of being abducted and forcibly married to a Muslim.

U.S. tags Boko Haram as terrorists

November 14, 2013 Nigeria Ansaru, Boko Haram, Children, Nigeria, Women

The United States has made official what Nigeria’s churches have long asserted: Boko Haram is a terrorist organisation. The state department announced on Thursday it has designated Boko Haram a “foreign terrorist organisation”, and as “specially designated global terrorists”. The Islamist insurgent group “is responsible for thousands of deaths in northeast . . . Read More

Korean ‘orphans’ could face execution

June 3, 2013 North Korea Children, North Korea

Nine young North Korean defectors arrested in Laos last month and sent home could face severe punishment or even execution, Reuters reports. Two South Korean missionaries were also arrested for attempting allegedly to help them find refuge in South Korea, according to the LA Times. UN spokesman Rupert Colville said . . . Read More

Iraq’s children ‘neglected’

May 1, 2013 Iraq Children, Iraq

UK charity War Child has called the situation of children in Iraq “one of the world’s most neglected crises”.

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