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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 Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a bloc of 57 Muslim states, has announced plans to establish its own “independent” human tights commission. This is the same bunch of tyrants that wants to outlaw criticism of Islam around the world. Eklemeddin İhsanoğlu, the OIC Secretary-General, stressed in a statement Monday that “human rights and man’s [...]
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 [...]
Muslim-born Christian convert Maher Mu’Tasim—whose Christian name is now Peter Athanasius—has sued to force Egyptian authorities officially to recognise the change of religion for himself and his 14-year-old daughter Dina (at right). During a court session in February, a state lawyer made the ludicrous claim that Christianity mandates killing of apostates. Last week in court, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The police commissioner of Kano State, Nigeria, has been warned not to block enforcement of Sharia law, especially the provisions against consuming or distributing alcohol. Sheik Umar Sani Fagge, Commissioner of the Sharia Commission, said this in a recent speech. Speaking in Kano, while delivering lecture on challenges of shariah implementation, Fagge said, ” the [...]
Many Saudi Arabian women seek divorce through khula, a provision of Sharia law that requires the wife to provide financial compensation to her husband. Such compensation can entail repayment of the dowry plus other expenses incurred during the marriage. Sara, a 32-year-old mother of three children, has been trying to secure a divorce from her [...]
Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN) reports that two Iranian Christian women were arrested and imprisoned earlier this month solely because of their faith. On March 5th 2009, two Iranian Christian women, Miss Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (30), and Miss Maryam Rustampoor (27), were arrested by the Iranian security forces. Their only crime is that they are [...]
Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, one of the Church of England’s most outspoken leaders, has unexpectedly announced his retirement as Bishop of Rochester, effective 1 September. He will turn 60 in August and could have remained in office for another ten years. Instead, he now plans to minister to Christians in Muslim-majority nations who face harassment and [...]
Klaas Hendrikse, pastor in the Protestant Church of the Netherlands, wrote a book entitled Believing in a God who does not exist: manifesto of an atheist pastor. Two church regional authorities have decided that disciplining an atheist pastor would entail “protracted discussion” and other unpleasantnesses they’d rather avoid. Ecumenical News International has the story. The [...]
A woman has told a court in New Delhi, India, that she wants to marry the man accused of raping her in 2005 and has converted to Islam to make that possible. She has been ostracised and harassed since the rape and believes that marrying her rapist will put an end to her distress. A [...]
As part of a negotiated settlement with Taliban forces in Swat Valley, Pakistan has established Sharia courts in the region. However, the system is apparently not working to the satisfaction of Swat Taliban. “I am not going to change the decision as it is valid according to Sharia,” says Maulana Ehsan-ur-Rahman softly but adamantly. Maulana [...]
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 [...]
