Archive for the '-Religious Persecution' Category
Tuesday, May 1st, 2012
Over the weekend, Florida pastor Terry Jones burned a copy of the Quran supposedly in protest of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s ongoing detainment in Iran. Now the Iranian officials are demanding an apology from the USA. A statement was released from the Iranian Foreign Ministry. Here’s a quote from it: “There is no doubt that this [...]
Filed under: -Church and State, -Freedom of Religion, -Religious Persecution, Iran, Islam, Quran, USA
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Thursday, March 15th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, recently called for the destruction of all Christian churches in the region. This declaration came in response to an inquiry by a delegation from Kuwait. Raymond Ibrahim reports: According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Islam and Christianity, -Politics & Religion, -Religious Persecution, -Sharia Law, Attacks on Christianity, Islam, Islamist Radicals, Kuwait, Middle East, Muslim Culture, Saudi Arabia, Toleration
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) FORT ABBAS, Pakistan, March 12 (Compass Direct New): – A young mother has been falsely accused of “blaspheming” Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, because she rebuffed attempts by relatives who had converted to Islam to force her to renounce her Christian faith, family members said. Police arrested 26-year-old Shamim Bibi, mother [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Religious Persecution, Blasphemy Laws, Christianity, Pakistan
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
(Image via Wikipedia) The dictator is gone and the ‘free’ elections in Egypt are over and have produced an Islamist majority in Parliament. Even though their were many incidences where the Coptic Christians were kept from voting, former president Jimmy Carter judged the elections to be “acceptable” Now Coptic Christians who make up approximately [...]
Filed under: -Freedom of Religion, -Politics & Religion, -Religious Persecution, Coptic Church, Culture & Religion, Egypt, Islamist Radicals, Muslim Brotherhood
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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) The U.S. government shut down the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) on November 18 due to lack of funding. The USCIRF was the government agency that monitored religious freedom in countries around the world. According to reports, the allocation of funding for the commission could not get out of [...]
Filed under: -Free Exercise of Religion, -Freedom of Religion, -Persecution, -Politics & Religion, -Religious Persecution, Barack Obama, Blasphemy Laws, Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Middle East, MSM, Obama Administration, Politics, UN, USA
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) The Muslim attacks against Christians in Nigeria continues. At least 45 more Christians are dead. Plus an untold number of houses and churches destroyed, and crops and fields burned. This time around ethnic Fulanis crying ‘Allahu akbar!’ attacked churches, and Christian communities this past week in Plateau state of northern-central Nigeria. [...]
Filed under: -Jihad, -Religious Persecution, Attacks on Christianity, Islamist Radicals, Nigeria, Terrorism
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
(Image via Wikipedia) When you first hear about this story most people consider the Amish beard attacks to be a prank or a sick joke. It almost sounded laughable in the beginning. However when you take into consideration the traditions of the Amish this really is a serious ‘hate’ crime against an entire community [...]
Filed under: 'Hate Crimes', -Bible Issues, -Religious Persecution, Culture & Religion, Religious Conflict
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