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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Indonesian singer Agnes Monica has released a pop song entitled “Allah Peduli” (“Allah Cares”), but apparently some Malaysian Muslims don’t want that message getting out. The Selangor Islamic Religious Council (MAIS) has now banned the Indonesian song ‘Allah Peduli’ (Allah Cares) because of the word Allah in its lyrics. MAIS chairman Datuk Mohamad Adzib Mohd [...]
Freedoms of speech and religion are under threat around the world. Religious persecution watchdog organisation International Christian Concern cites several recent instances in this disturbing trend. Hate speech and anti-conversion laws are cropping up around the globe in what, on the surface, seems to be an effort to protect religious freedoms. In reality, these laws [...]
Now that Pakistan has agreed to implement sharia law in Swat Valley in hopes of ending hostilities in the region, some parents are sending their girls back to school. Islamic militants pronounced a ban education for girls in December. Some 200 girls’ schools in Swat have been burned down and an unknown number of teachers [...]
Converting from Islam to Christianity is no longer a criminal offence in Afghanistan, but believers with Muslim backgrounds still risk ostracism and mob violence. They must worship in secret. A recent convert to Christianity, Ahmed, who asked that his real name not be used out of fear for his security, has begun to join the [...]
