Tag: Islamic extremism

Egypt’s Copts nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

September 28, 2018 Egypt Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Copts, Egypt, Giza, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Mohamed Morsi, Muslim Brotherhood, Pope Tawadros II

In October last year the Coptic church in Sohag, Minya governorate, had its electricity and water supply cut by police, who said they had received complaints from Muslim villagers (Watani)

Egypt’s Coptic Christians have been nominated for the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize for choosing peaceful coexistence over retaliation in the face of persecution, reports the US-based news site PR Newswire. It is believed to be the first time in the 116-year history of the prize that an ethnic religious group . . . Read More

Philippines priest celebrates first year of ‘second life’ after escape

September 27, 2018 Philippines Bangsamoro, Islamic extremism, Marawi, Maute, Mindanao, Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, Teresito Suganob

Fr. Teresito “Chito” Suganob in a still taken from a video shortly after his release.

On the anniversary of his escape, the Catholic priest held hostage for four months by an Islamist group in the southern Philippines city of Marawi says he has since found a new lease of life, reports Catholic news agency UCAN. Father Teresito Suganob was one of around 200 people taken . . . Read More

Mozambique: Islamists kill 12 in latest attack in Cabo Delgado

September 25, 2018 Ahlu Sunnah Wa-Jamâ, Cabo Delgado, Islamic extremism, Mozambique

Mozambique experienced its first confirmed Islamist attack on October 2017. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Suspected jihadists killed 12 and injured 14 in an attack on a village in northern Mozambique last week, reports AFP. “Ten people killed were shot by firearms and two burnt [to death] after 55 houses were charred. A person was beheaded after being shot dead” in the village of Paqueue, . . . Read More

Kenyan worship leader one of two killed for failing to say Islamic prayer of faith

September 18, 2018 Kenya Al-Shabaab, Garissa, Islamic extremism, Kenya, Mandera, Nairobi

Security forces guard the Garissa University College after Al-Shabaab militants killed at last 147 students here in an attack in April 2015. (Photo: Stringer/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Two people were killed for failing to recite the Islamic statement of faith when militants, believed to belong to the Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, attacked their bus in eastern Kenya on Friday, 14 September. Seven men stopped the bus while it was on its way to Garissa, between the towns of Iljara and . . . Read More

‘Not all incidents are religiously motivated’ – Pakistan professor

September 17, 2018 Pakistan Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Karachi, Minorities, Pakistan

Sabir Michael (YouTube / Academy for Cultural Diplomacy)

A Pakistani professor has warned that some social media activists and religious leaders are falsely portraying incidents as religiously motivated to stoke intolerance, reports UCAN. Sabir Michael, assistant professor at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology in Karachi, cited three recent incidents that he said were reported . . . Read More

Attacks against Copts ‘among deadliest acts of religious persecution’ – report

September 14, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, Copts, Egypt, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Lake Chad, Sahel, Somalia, Syria, Tony Blair, Women, Yemen

This is one of the fifty five photos that is part of the photo story "Renewed day by day," commissioned by World Watch Monitor, exploring the extensive damage to churches in Egypt's Minya region that took place in late August 2013.

Attacks by members of the Islamic State group against Egypt’s Coptic Christian community “were among the deadliest acts of religious persecution” last year, according a new report presented in Washington DC yesterday, 13 September. “Fifty-three per cent of ISIS attacks against the public in 2017 were aimed at the Coptic . . . Read More

Closed churches force Copts to hold funerals in the streets

September 12, 2018 Egypt Asyut, Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

Coptic Christians in various parts of Egypt have been left with no choice but to hold funeral services in the streets because of the closure of their churches. Coptic news site Watani reported on a street funeral last week in the village of Dimshau Hashim, in Minya governorate, where the . . . Read More

‘World leaders can’t continue to ignore persecution of Copts’

September 10, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State

More than 20 people lost their lives in the Palm Sunday attack on the St George Cathedral in Tanta, Egypt.

The US should make further cuts in foreign aid to Egypt if its government does not tackle the escalation in violence against the country’s Coptic Christians, an imam has said. “World leaders cannot continue to ignore the ongoing persecution of Coptic Christians,” Imam Tawhidi, president of the Islamic Association of . . . Read More

Egypt: Copts’ homes attacked despite advance notice to police of threats

September 3, 2018 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Luxor, Minya, Police

Houses of Copts have again come under attack by a mob in a village in Minya Governorate on 31 August, as a protest against Copts praying in a home owned by one of them, since there is no village church, Coptic news site Watani reports. World Watch Monitor last week . . . Read More

Egypt: Mob attacks prevent Coptic church’s recognition for ‘security’ reasons

August 31, 2018 Egypt Churches, Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Minya

Following demonstrations and several attacks on their church, Copts in Ezbet Sultan Pasha village, are back worshipping in the small house where they used to meet. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

A Coptic community in Egypt’s Minya governorate, whose church was closed in July following protests by local Muslims, continues to be a target of mob attacks and hostility. The only Coptic church in Ezbet Sultan Pasha village, 250km south of Cairo, where about 20 per cent of the population is . . . Read More

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