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Last week, a Christian leader alleged that terrorists are being trained in the bush of northern Nigeria. Now comes a police intelligence report saying much the same thing. A Shiite Muslim sect is engaged in gun-running and training of militant youths drawn from 13 states in the predominantly-Muslim northern Nigeria as well as neighbouring Niger [...]

Concern is growing that Wahhabist Muslims from Sudan and Nigeria are infiltrating and transforming Islam in Cameroon. Professor of Islamic religion Father Krzysztof Zielenda spoke about the problem. He explained that “it is moving from the traditional Islam of fraternities, to an Islam marked by the Wahhabite movement,” a Muslim sect founded in Arabia in [...]

Egyptian author and Islamic philosophy scholar Youssef Ziedan has been awarded the second annual International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his historical novel Azazeel (“Beelzebub”, or “Lord of the Flies”). Set in 5th-century Egypt, the book focuses on violent conflicts and divisions among Christians over the nature of Jesus Christ and sympathises with those who [...]

Christians are a tiny and beleaguered minority in Mauritania, an Islamic republic in western Africa, numbering about 4500 of a total population of 3.3 million.  Distribution of non-Islamic literature is prohibited and evangelism of Muslims is viewed as a threat to social order. A worker with Voice of the Martyrs Canada recently met with the [...]

A leader of the Christian Association of Nigeria alleges that terrorists are being trained in remote areas of northern Nigeria. CAN General Secretary Elder Saidu Dogo says that, if thew government does not act against such activities, the country could be destabilised. “We should be expecting more crises because there are trainings going on in [...]

An Egyptian Islamic scholar has issued a fatwa encouraging people to monitor the condition of their neighbours’ marriages. If evidence of irreconcilable differences is found, he says, bring it to court. A fatwa or religious edict issued by a senior Egyptian cleric invites people to end their neighbours’ marriages if they can prove they are [...]

An Egyptian Muslim accused of killing a Coptic Christian doesn’t seem to understand what’s involved in a murder trial. During yesterday’s first session in the trial of the Aswan murderer Ahmed Abu-elroos, he shouted from inside his cage “Get the Infidels Out of the Courtroom, they are looking at me” The defendant meant the victim’s [...]

As an example of a wealthy celebrity prone to bizarre outbursts, consider Sir Bono. Perhaps the best-known, and certainly the loudest among them, is U2′s Bono. His efforts have won him an honorary British knighthood, no fewer than three Nobel Prize nominations and the adulation of Tony Blair. Yet one of Bono’s most significant outbursts [...]

For the second time in a week, a Coptic Christian man has been murdered in Egypt over rumours of illicit involvement with a Muslim woman. The man’s body was found floating in the Nile. He had been abducted and tortured for nine days before being killed. Police Investigations confirmed that the victim was lured to [...]

Egyptian Muslim Yasser Ahmed Qassem is under arrest after he set fire to Ramy Sabry Shehata, a 25-year-old Coptic man, and stabbed to death the man’s father. Qassem went on a rampage after he heard a rumour that his sister had a relationship with the young Copt. A 60-year-old Christian man has been stabbed to [...]

The Madagascan Christian Council of churches has given up its attempt to mediate an agreement in the political conflict between President Marc Ravalomanana and opposition leader Andry Rajoelina. Three days of meetings produced no progress and the two sides are deadlocked, said Catholic Archbishop Odon Razanakolona. Immediately following that announcement, Mr Rajoelina’s supporters resumed street [...]

This example of anti-Semitism at its most lunatic comes courtesy of Egyptian cleric Ahmad Abd Al-Salam, who spoke on Al-Nas TV on 28 January. Translation from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: The Jews “will not fail to corrupt” the believers. What does it mean? The Jews are never remiss – [...]

Egyptian Muslims seem to make a habit of abducting Christian children and trying to pressure them to convert to Islam. Kirollos Refat Ibrahim, 14-year-old Coptic boy, was returned after being kidnapped for nine months. He was forcible [sic] detained by two Imams (Muslim spiritual leaders) on the roof top of a mosque, in Manshiet Nasr, [...]

Dead Aid, the title of the book by Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, is an obvious slap in the face of Bob Geldof, Bono, and the other jet-setting celebrities who performed at Live Aid. Her recent interview in The New York Times is headlined “The Anti-Bono” and the first question asks if she has ever met [...]

In March 2007, a 17-year-old girl who had been raised a Christian disappeared from her family home in Egypt. After a long search, she was found married to a Muslim neighbour who had induced her to convert to Islam. Because the girl’s change of religion was recognised on official documents, her mother has sued the [...]