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Delara Darabi is 22 years old and has been on Iran’s death row for almost six years. In 2003, she confessed to killing someone to protect her boyfriend, who was 19 at the time and told her she would not face the death penalty because she was under 18. She has since retracted her confession. [...]
The headline and opening sentence of the Church Times article make the Taliban sound like tolerant and open-minded multiculturalists. Easter ‘with Taliban blessing’ EASTER DAY passed off without a hitch in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, thanks to the Taliban’s support To read the rest, you need a subscription. Fortunately, Andii Bowsher has [...]
In India, Christians are vilified and attacked by Hindus; in Sri Lanka, Buddhists are the persecutors. Buddhist mobs attacked several churches in Sri Lanka last week, threatening to kill a pastor in the southern province of Hambanthota and ransacking a 150-year-old Methodist church building in the capital. On April 8, four Buddhist extremists approached the [...]
Turkey’s ambassador has officially complained to the Australian government over a speech a state cabinet minister made to 40 people at a Greek community function. What did South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson say that prompted Turkey to go ballistic? He recalled the bloody past of Turkey’s national hero. The Turks are seething over remarks Mr [...]
Based on media reports, I would have assumed that bombings killed more civilians in Iraq between 2003 and 2008 than any other cause. According to a study published earlier this week in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), however, that assumption would be wrong. Utilising the detailed database assembled by Iraq Body Count, a [...]
Today saw the first of five rounds in India‘s latest general election, the largest exercise of democracy in the world. Results, expected on 16 May, will determine which party or coalition of parties will be chosen to govern for the next five years. Analysts say the race is too close to call. Although Christians make [...]
Testimony at the trial of the killers of three Christians in Malatya, Turkey, in April 2007 strongly suggests that local security officials were involved in the crime. Called to the stand on Monday were Mehmet Ulger, former gendarmerie commander of Malatya province, and Ruhi Abat, theology instructor at a local university. Compass Direct News reports. [...]
An epidemiological study published in the April 2009 issue of the European Journal of Public Health concludes that 1957 honour killings of women occurred in Pakistan between January 2004 and December 2007—about 20 percent of all homicides. The study was led by Dr. Muazzam Nasrullah of the Aga Khan University in Pakistan. An excerpt is [...]
Good news! Hamoud Bin Saleh, who was arrested in January after announcing on his blog that he had converted from Islam to Christianity, has been released from detention. Although he was freed in late March, the news was only reported today by Middle East Concern. Hamoud was arrested on 13th January 2009 and detained at [...]
The Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey has called for a day of prayer for Turkey to be held this Saturday, 18 April. The hope is that this will become an annual event in honour of the three Christians who were martyred in Malatya by Muslims. “On 18 April 2007, Necati Aydin, Tillman Geske and [...]
A candidate running for the pro-Hindutva Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in upcoming elections in India has been charged with hate speech following an incendiary address in which he attacked Christianity and defamed Christians. The speech was given near the Kandhamal district of Orissa state, which has been rocked by anti-Christian mob violence that began last [...]
Two years ago tomorrow, Kurdish teenager Du’a Khalil Aswad was publicly stoned to death in an honour killing. She was of the Yazidi faith, and her “crime” was to fall in love and run away with a Muslim boy. Thousands reportedly participated in her murder in Bashiqa, northern Iraq. In her memory, the International Campaign [...]
The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada (EFC) recently published a report on the plight of Christians in India. Hindus and Christians have lived in a tense relationship since independence in 1947, but those tensions exploded into widespread open violence in the state of Orissa in August 2008, which the report calls a “tipping point”. Christians were [...]
In a follow-up to this story, Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30) and Maryam Rustampoor (27), the two Christian women recently arrested by Iranian security agents, have now been in custody for 28 days and are reportedly suffering poor health. Assist News Service has received a press release from Elam Ministries about their condition. “They are in [...]
Controversial Dalit activist Udit Raj points out that widespread persecution of Christians by Hindu extremists began around 1998, when the BJP came to power. Mr Raj argues that the real reason for hatred of Christians is not conversion, but the threat that Christianity presents to Hindu social beliefs and traditions. What worries the Sangh Parivar [...]
