Pakistani Minority Rights Defender Said To Be Victim of Islamists
Muslim who posed as Christian then converted, married woman opposed Joseph Francis’ efforts.
By Edward Ross
LOS ANGELES, July 23 (Compass Direct News) – Pakistani minority rights defender Joseph Francis has been unjustly jailed by Islamists and others who oppose his work on behalf of Christians, according to the legal aid organization Francis directs.
Islamic extremist rebel group hunts down underground church leader.
By Simba Tian
NAIROBI, Kenya, July 20 (Compass Direct News) – Muslim extremists early this morning killed a Christian convert in Mahadday Weyne, Somalia, 100 kilometers (62 miles) north of Mogadishu.
At Ezbet Basilious, Minya:Where victims are turned into suspects
Tereza Kamal - Nader Shukry - Photos by Emad Nassif
The hamlet of Ezbet Basilious in Beni-Mazar, Minya, Upper Egypt is home to some 4000 inhabitants, a third of whom are Copts. Last Saturday, fire erupted in the village church leaving it in ruins, upon which the security forces surrounded the village and conducted an investigation.
Egyptian Security Refuses to Return Abducted Christian Coptic Girl
(AINA)
Two incidents of abduction of Coptic girls to force them to convert to Islam took place within one week in Upper Egypt. In both cases the Egyptian security predictably played a key role in the outcome of the cases.
Rania Asaad was returned to her family, while Irene Labib is still missing, in spite of pleas from human rights organizations to the security authorities to end this Coptic family's misfortune.
The Pope has again risked provoking the wrath of the Islamic world, by criticising its treatment of Christians.
Benedict XVI attacked Muslim nations where Christians are either persecuted or given the status of second-class citizens under the Shariah Islamic law.
Home terrorists emerge as Indonesia main bomb suspects
By John Aglionby in Jakarta
Home-grown Islamist terrorists, probably with ties to Jemaah Islamiah, the al-Qaeda-linked group, were the prime suspects for yesterday's bombing of two luxurious hotels in the Indonesian capital.
Police Collusion Suspected in Attack on Church in Minya, Egypt
Strangely, officers arrest Copts; roof collapses after Muslim suspects set fire to church building.
By Roger Elliott
ISTANBUL, July 17(Compass Direct News) – Villagers in Ezbet Basillious, Minya suspect local police in Egypt of corruption and collusion after two Copts were arrested for an arson attack on their own house church on Saturday (July 11).
Coptic Church Security Thwarts Apparent Attack By Veiled Woman
(AINA)
A veiled woman wearing a Hijab entered the Coptic Church of St. Demiana and St. Mercurios in Shubra, Cairo, a couple of weeks ago, carrying two big kitchen knives, a pair of scissors, a heavy solid brass kitchen club for pulping and grinding, a rope and anaesthetic drugs in her bag, just as the children's weekly Religion classes ended.
Muslims Set Church Ablaze But Egyptian Security Implicates a Christian Copts
(AINA)
In a continuation of the ongoing wave of arson attacks on Coptic places of worship, the Church of St. Abaskharion Kellini, in the village of Ezbet Bassilious, Beni Mazar, was burnt down at noon on July 11 by Muslim village inhabitants. No one was injured.
MOGADISHU - Somalia's hardline Islamist rebels beheaded seven people on Friday for being "Christians" and "spies" in the latest imposition of strict sharia, Islamic law, by the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab group, witnesses said.
Further attacks on Christians in Nazlet Girgis, today and burning of Christians crops
United Copts GB sources
Further attacks on Christians in Nazlet Girgis village took place today.
Nazlet Girgis is not far from Nazlet Boshra where an attack on Christian’s homes and properties took place on Sunday 21 June 2009 by a large group of the Muslim inhabitants of the village following a visit by a small group of Christians who work in Cairo and visit their families in the village on monthly basis attempted to visit the local priest at home.
The terrible consequence of forced ’reconciliation’ in the absence of truth or justice
By Elizabeth Kendal
Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB) 011 Special to ASSIST News Service
AUSTRALIA(ANS) -- Since early 2007 the Egyptian government has been appeasing Muslim fundamentalists by settling matters of sectarian conflict out of court in line with Islamic Sharia law. That prohibits Christians from bringing evidence against Muslims. The government brokers 'reconciliation' sessions where the Christians are forced to drop all the charges they are making (arson, looting, assault, kidnap, robbery, criminal damage, rioting, torture, rape, murder) in exchange for Muslim guarantees of 'peace'.
Christian Homes Burned in Egypt After Death of Muslim Man
AINA
Another incident of a Muslim mob attacking, torching and looting Coptic Christian homes and shops took place today in the village of Meet El-Korashy, Meet Ghamr, after a Muslim young man died following a fight with a Coptic shopkeeper. State Security cordoned off the whole village and placed it under curfew. The Shopkeeper and his family were arrested and charged with murder.
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- Two Pakistani Christians remained detained Thursday, June 25, on false charges of "blasphemy" and "robbery", advocacy groups said.
Violence erupts on mere suspicion of a prayer meeting.
By Damaris Kremida
ISTANBUL, June 25 (Compass Direct News) – Nearly 1,000 Coptic Christians are hiding in their homes after clashes erupted Sunday (June 21) between them and their village’s majority-Muslim population over the use of a three-story building belonging to the Coptic Church.
