I will make an effort to repost
this monthly log from Bill Warner. We
usually see occasional items that make it into the press and see little of the
underlying ongoing conflict that we really need to know about and address.
The underlying hope of the West
is that advancing economic development will counter these tendencies over
time. The problem of course is to actually
get these societies to fully engage in the modernization process and much of
what I see is generally disheartening.
We occasional economic successes in spite of it all, not the other way around.
The Muslim world is about to
confront the greatest challenge it has ever faced. The oil industry is about to evaporate during
this decade. In the aftermath, it will
all look like Egypt and Pakistan
The West needs to clamp down of
Islam as practiced and make it congruent with enlightenment values. A good start would be to simply demand that
all religious teacher pass a first year calculus course. The result can not be any worse.
Bulletin of Christian Persecution
January 29 - February 29, 2012
January 29, 2012
Ms. Leila Mohammadi, a Christian convert who resided east of
January 30, 2012
Thirty-five Ethiopian Christians, 29 of them women, face deportation from
The group was arrested on December 15 in a private home in Jeddah as they gathered to pray ahead of Christmas in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom which bans the practice of any religious rites except those of Islam. More HERE.
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A judge has denied bail to a young Christian man charged with desecrating the Quran under
Christian converts in northern
January 31, 2012
An Orthodox Christian church famed for its valuable icons was set alight in southern
Firefighters extinguished the fire on Monday night in the two century-old Sveti Nikola church, near the town of
An Iranian apostate from Islam who became a Christian is harassed out of his Muslim neighborhood in
Last fall, the Egyptian Coptic Church's lawyer Naguib Gibrael estimated that some 100,000 Christian families had left the country in the preceding months, and that since Mubarak's ouster, sectarian strife has escalated in the country.
February 1, 2012
A [Muslim]group that claims to have executed the grisly attack on Pastor Umah Mulinde with acid on Christmas Eve seeks to broaden its evil mission and has now revealed that it is targeting more people it accuses of being bent on ostracizing Islam in their performances and sermons. They pinpoint drama groups and radio evangelists, particularly comedy group Amarula Family, Bakayimbira Dramactors, presenters on Christian radio Impact FM, other born-again leaders and non-Muslims in general.
A pastor of a major house church movement in
Pastor Behnam Irani began his five year imprisonment in the Ghezel
Hesar detention center in the city of Karaj
February 3, 2012
A group of 37 Indonesian Christians to be deported from the
Sudan's military bombed a Bible school built by a U.S. Christian aid group, prompting students and teachers at the school to run for their lives in the
From JihadWatch: Radio Vatikan on
February 5, 2012
An ex-Muslim boy is beaten at his school for wearing a cross.
February 6, 2012
Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about the global war on Christians in Islamic countries.
February 7, 2012
A video from MSNBC about violence against Christians in Islamic countries.
Iran (h/t to thereligionofpeace)
Ms. Fatemeh Nouri, an art student in one of the universities in
February 8, 2012
Islamic extremists from the rebel al Shabaab militia in
Haroon Arif, a student from DG Khan in Punjab, could not get high enough marks to get into medical school. This is a standard situation for many young people in the country. What's different here is that Haroon, who missed the grade by less than 0.1%, would have earned 20 extra marks if he was Hafiz-e-Quran. He tried to claim his knowledge of the Bible was equivalent, but this made no impact.
February 9, 2012
A comprehensive Pew Forum study last year found that Christians are persecuted in 131 countries containing 70 percent of the world's population, out of 197 countries in the world (if Palestine, Taiwan, South Sudan, and the Vatican are included). Best estimates are that about 200 million Christians are in communities where they are persecuted.
The ratings of offending countries always put North Korea as the worst,
followed by Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, the Maldives, Yemen,
Iraq, Uzbekistan, Laos, Pakistan, Sudan, and, farther back but still
prominently odious, Libya, Syria, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, the Palestinian
Authority, Vietnam, Cuba, and China. While there is no shortage of incidents in
India
Last week a series of meetings were held by radical Muslims to decide on the fate of the Copts in a village in Alexandria, and Muslims insisted that the whole Coptic population of 62 families must be deported because of an unsubstantiated accusation levied against one Coptic man. Update HERE.
Nigerians have fled in droves to neighbouring
February 10, 2012
Muslim Persecution of Christians in January 2012. The beginning of the New Year saw only an increase in the oppression of Christians under Islam, from Nigeria, where an all-out jihad has been declared in an effort to eradicate the Muslim north of all Christians, to Europe, where Muslim converts to Christianity are still hounded and attacked as apostates.
According to the Chairman of the U.S.
Commission on International Religious Freedom, "The flight of Christians
out of the region is unprecedented and it's increasing year by year"; in
our life time alone, he predicts "Christians might disappear altogether
from Iraq , Afghanistan , and Egypt
Iranian authorities this week arrested Christian converts from Islam while they were meeting for worship at a home in the southern city of Shiraz, according to sources. The sources put the number of the arrested Christians, who belong to one of
February 12, 2012
A Mitsubishi bus with six Christian passengers fleeing the carnage in
February 14, 2012
Armed men raided a church in
Aidan Clay, ICC Regional Manager for the Middle East, said,
"Whether under the harsh laws imposed on Christians by the government or
at the hands of angry mobs, Christians and their places of worship continue to
be discriminated against or outright attacked in Algeria province
of Algeria
Despite some promising developments, Christians in
February 15, 2012
A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into and torch the Church of St. Mary and St. Abram in the village of Meet Bashar,in Zagazig, Sharqia province. They were demanding the death of Reverend Guirgis Gameel, pastor of the church, who has been unable to leave his home since yesterday.
Nearly 100 terrorized Copts sought refuge inside the church, while
Muslim rioters were pelting the church with stones in an effort to break into
the church, assault the Copts and torch the building. A home of a Copt living
near the church and the home of the church's porter were torched, as well as
three cars.
Two Catholic priests abducted at gunpoint in
February 18, 2012
Nadia Bibi, a Christian girl who was abducted and forced to marry a Muslim man, returned to her family, of Catholic faith, after 10 years. Nadia was only 15 when, in 2001, she was kidnapped in Mariamabad (in Punjab), a city with a Catholic majority: her case is not an isolated case, as confirmed by Catholic sources of Fides in Punjab, there are at least 700 cases a year of Christian girls kidnapped and forced to marry a Muslim.
February 19, 2012
A mob of some 50 Palestinian Muslims stoned a group of Christian tourists atop
A Kuwaiti parliamentarian is set to submit a draft law banning the construction of churches and non-Islamic places of worship in the Gulf state, it was reported at the weekend.
A bomb planted by an abandoned car exploded outside a church in the middle of a worship service Sunday near Nigeria's capital, wounding five people amid a continuing wave of violence by a radical Islamist sect, authorities and witnesses said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast outside the Christ Embassy church in Suleja, a city near the nation's capital
February 22, 2012
A trial court in
Supporters fear Youcef Nadarkhani, a 34-year-old father of two who was arrested over two years ago on charges of apostasy, may now be executed at any time without prior warning, as death sentences in Iran may be carried out immediately or dragged out for years.
"Christians are the minority most threatened by
February 23, 2012
Saira Khokhar, who teaches at the City Foundation School in Lahore, is accused of burning a copy of the Qur'an. However, the case is still shrouded in mystery. Police took Ms Khokhar into custody and launched an informal investigation. No First Information Report has been filed yet, but Christian activists and organisation along with the special adviser to the prime minister on minority affairs, Paul Bhatti, are closely monitoring developments to ensure her safety and rights.
A dozen armed Muslims stormed the
February 24, 2012
A rich Muslim landowner abducted a Christian man in
Coptic Christians in
February 26, 2012
Fear and anxiety gripped churchgoers in
For the first time in the history of the conflict in
February 27, 2012
Tensions are still high in a village near here following Muslims' attempt to seize land from a Christian family by threatening to accuse them of "blasphemy." What began on Feb. 19 as a quarrel over a pigeon between Christian and Muslim youths at Nawa Pind Sabu Mohal village, in
February 28, 2012
While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church.
Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, are still not sure what kind of chemicals Muslim extremists cast on Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside of Kampala last Christmas Eve, but they know that the acid is threatening the vision in his remaining eye.
February 29, 2012
A number of
Three American missionaries were injured in northern
Gunmen abducted two Pakistani Christians working for a South Korean-run hospital in
Publisher: Bill Warner; Edited by Asma Marwan
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