Tag: Sharia

Corruption threatening Nigeria, not religion

May 12, 2015 Nigeria APC, Corruption, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria, Sharia

Nigeria’s major problem is neither ethnic nor religious but corruption, which has remained endemic and entrenched, said President-elect Muhammadu Buhari. Nigeria’s Christians, especially those in the troubled northeast, have expressed concerns over the election of the former military ruler, who once endorsed the full implementation of sharia (Islamic law) throughout . . . Read More

Boko Haram headlines hide persecution of Christians in mid-Nigeria, too

March 20, 2015 Nigeria Adamawa, Benue, Boko Haram, Chibok girls, Fulani herdsmen, Islamic extremism, Jos, Kaduna, Middle Belt, Nasarawa, Nigeria, Plateau, Sharia, Taraba, Zamfara

The whole world has heard of the Chibok abduction: the 276 girls, predominantly Christians, kidnapped by Boko Haram in northern Nigeria in April 2014. There are 220 still missing. But the publicity surrounding this serves to hide a more widespread persecution of Christians in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. Nigeria . . . Read More

Nigerians, fearing election violence, forfeit vote to move to other end of country

March 4, 2015 Nigeria Anambra, APC, Bayelsa, Boko Haram, Elections, Enugu, Goodluck Jonathan, Igbo, Imo, Jama'atu Nasril Islam, Kaduna, Katsina, Middle Belt, Muhammadu Buhari, Niger Delta, Nigeria, Sharia, Zamfara

Ahead of Nigeria’s general elections on 28 March, hundreds of people, fearful of election violence, have fled back to their place of origin, World Watch Monitor has been told. The election was originally scheduled for 14 February, before being postponed to the March date for security reasons. Take for example . . . Read More

Death threats for educational church visit

January 8, 2015 Indonesia Aceh, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Sharia

UCAN, a Catholic news service in Asia, reports that an Indonesian university lecturer, Rosnida Sari, has received death threats after taking Muslim students on a trip to a Christian church. The threats began Jan. 5, after the Australia Plus website published an account by Sari, who teaches at the Islamic . . . Read More

Three more cases in which Pakistani Christians accused of blasphemy

December 11, 2014 Pakistan Asia Bibi, Barelvi, Blasphemy, Kasur, Lahore, Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan, Sharia

A brick kiln in Pakistan where 24 bonded-labourer Christian families narrowly escaped a mob attack in December 2014. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Three more cases of blasphemy accusations have emerged in Pakistan, even after a Christian couple’s beating to death and burning in a brick kiln after allegations of blasphemy horrified the world, including the metropolitan elite in the country. The Christian couple were killed over suspicions of desecrating the Qur’an on . . . Read More

Lawyer: ‘Egyptian convert’s arrest linked to leaving Islam’

December 9, 2014 Egypt Egypt, Minya, Mohammed Hegazy, Sharia, Upper Egypt

The first Egyptian citizen to attempt to change his legal religious identity from Muslim to Christian, Mohammed Hegazy, has been in jail for a year now, awaiting a verdict on separate misdemeanor charges, due on Dec. 28. Hegazy faces a five-year prison sentence if an appeal court upholds his conviction . . . Read More

Nigerian Christian fundraiser for terror victims

December 5, 2014 Nigeria Boko Haram, Christian Association of Nigeria, Nigeria, Sharia

The Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has announced that it will raise funds from its member churches to help victims of terror attacks in the northern states. The funds will be raised as part of a special offering to be collected in churches on Sunday 7 December. Of Nigeria’s approximately . . . Read More

Clampdown on Sudan’s churches

December 4, 2014 Sudan Bahri, Churches, Khartoum, Omdurman, Sharia, Women

A building used as a church by Sudanese Christians is being torn down by police after worshippers fell into a dispute with a group that claims to own the building. The evangelical church community in Bahri, a suburb of Khartoum, had formed a human chain to prevent the building from . . . Read More

Bail granted for pastors nearly mobbed for sharing their faith in Bangladesh

November 18, 2014 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Baptism, Converts, Islamic extremism, Jamaat-e-Islami, Lalmonirhat, Sharia

Two Bangladeshi pastors have been released on bail today after having been arrested and nearly mobbed by about 200 Muslims who gathered to attack a Christian meeting they were leading in northern Bangladesh. Around noon on Nov 9, in a village in the northern district of Lalmonirhat, locals were outraged . . . Read More

Scores dead in DR Congo attacks

October 23, 2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo ADF, Beni, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sharia, Uganda

A group of Ugandan rebels are suspected of killing more than 20 people in an Oct. 16 attack on the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Beni’s mayor said the Allied Democratic Forces, an Islamist force with hopes of establishing Islamic law in Uganda, was behind the . . . Read More

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