Cuban Family Faces Indefinite Separation
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
Cuban Pastor Gude Perez Refused Exit Visa as Family Faces Indefinite Separation ICC Note: Pastor Perez and family were granted asylum in the United States, but the Cuban government refuses to give him an exit visa. The family believes this is due to their outspokenness on the issue of religious freedom. They now face indefinite [...]
Hindu Villagers Attack Christian Mourners
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
Hindu Villagers Attack Mourners in India ICC Note: Hindu extremists try to prevent the burial of a convert to Christianity in an attack that went on for six hours. 04/27/2012 (CDN) — Hindu extremists trying to stop the burial of a convert to Christianity last week in Chhattisgarh state beat a pastor and other Christians, including children [...]
Egypt’s Lost Daughters; the Abduction of Christian Girls
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
Washington, D.C. May 8 (ICC) – “We don’t know if our daughter is still alive,” Magda told ICC during a recent visit to Egypt. “We haven’t seen or heard from her in five years… Her kidnapper called us and said she was dead and buried.” Mary disappeared in June 2007, but to her mother, Magda, [...]
Kuwaitis Pass Death Penalty for Cursing God, Muhammad, Or the Quran
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
ICC Note: “Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday passed a bill stipulating the death penalty for Muslims who curse God, the Muslim holy book, all prophets and the wives of Islam’s Prophet Mohammed,” Independent Online News reports. The law will also be enacted against the country’s small Christian minority. 5/3/2012 Kuwait (SAPA) – Kuwait’s parliament on Thursday [...]
Brazil Stands with Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
ICC Note: The American Center for Law and Justice is working with the government and churches in Brazil to secure the release of Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani in Iran. By Jordan Sekulow 5/8/2012 Iran (ACLJ) – Our international efforts to free Iranian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, who faces death by hanging because of his Christian beliefs, continue [...]
Boko Haram: Nigeria’s Islamist Killers for God
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
ICC Note: The Huffington Post reports on Nigeria’s Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram. By Ben Barber 5/7/2012 Nigeria (Huffington Post) – The Boko Haram jihadi outfit in Nigeria has struck at the heart blood of the Nigerian people — its robust and creative media. Boko Haram means “Books are Forbidden.” It’s a Muslim Hausa group [...]
Islam in Africa: The Invisible Killing of Christians
Posted Tuesday, May 8, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
ICC Note: From Nigeria to Sudan, the war on Christians is waging, Arutz Sheva reports. 5/7/2012 Africa (Arutz Sheva) – The UN does nothing, the world is silent, and most Western citizens, who know little about Africa, do not know it is happening. The goal is creating a big African-Islamic continent. Christians must be killed [...]
Violation of Religious Freedom in Kazakhstan
Posted Monday, May 7, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
Kazakh authorities against Christians, Jehovah’s Witnesses and Hare Krishna ICC Note: In recent weeks the clamp down on religions has intensified, with arbitrary arrests and seizure of material. 05/03/2012 Kazakhstan (AsiaNews / Agencies) – Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baptists, Ahmadis, and Hare Krishna: the ax of religious repression and censorship of books and magazines continues to fall [...]
Activists, Churchgoers In West Java, Indonesia, To File Reports After Sunday Morning Assaults
Posted Monday, May 7, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
05/06/2012 Indonesia (Jakarta Post) – A human rights activist and members of the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Union (HKBP) Church plan to file reports with the National Police after being assaulted and intimidated by dozens members of the hard-line Islamic Defender Front (FPI) while attending a Sunday sermon near the sealed church in Bekasi regency, West [...]
Christian “untouchables” in India Denied Constitutional Rights
Posted Monday, May 7, 2012 in Persecuted Christians, Top Religion News
Fairmont man helping India’s ‘untouchables’ ICC Note: Christian Dalits in India are not guaranteed certain constitutional rights. “There are more underground Christians in India than in any other country in the world today. Because they’re untouchables, they just register themselves as Hindus, even though they’re Christians in their heart.” Jyothi Raju Gaddapati By Lori Kersey 05/04/2012 India [...]