A young Christian man has been charged under Egypt’s “blasphemy” law for “liking” a Facebook page that local Muslims deemed offensive to Islam. The case prompted attacks by Islamists on Christian property.
Kerolos Shouky Attallah (29) of El-Mahameed village near Luxor is scheduled to appear in court on 24 June on a charge of showing disdain or contempt for a heavenly religion, which carries a penalty of between six months and five years in prison, or a fine.
Kerolos was accused after clicking the “like” button on a Facebook page run by a group of converts from Islam to Christianity, the Knights of the Cross. The page features posts about Christian and Islamic teachings, and is intended to encourage Arabic-speaking converts from Islam in their faith. Kerolos did not add any content to the page or interact with posts by others.
Convicted: Jordan Horner, 20, is one of a group of Sunni
Muslims facing jail for attacking a group of Shi'ites in what is believed to be
the first case of Muslim sectarian violence on the streets of Britain
Radical Sunni Muslims are facing jail for
attacking a group of Shi’ites in what is believed to be the first case of Muslim
sectarian violence on the streets of Britain.
It is unknown how many Britons could be taking up arms for the terror organisation in Iraq, which Mr Hague called the "most violent and brutal militant group in the Middle East".
Mr Hague repeated his position there was no prospect of a British military intervention to tackle ISIS in Iraq.
But he said counter-terrorism support could be offered to the government in Baghdad and a Ministry of Defence team had been sent to the country to assist embassy staff in contingency planning.
A man believed to be an Iraqi officer is apparently captured by ISIS
Key figure in 'Trojan Horse' plot is an Ofsted inspector
Chairman of governors at a school implicated in "Trojan Horse" plot is named as an Ofsted inspector - days before watchdog releases damning reports into the affair
Tahir Alam, chairman of governors at Park View School in Birmingham, is a registered Ofsted inspector.Photo: BBC
A key figure implicated in the Islamic “Trojan Horse” plot to take over secular state schools in Birmingham is a registered Ofsted inspector, it has emerged.
Tahir Alam, chairman of governors at Park View School in the city, has been registered as an education inspector since 2010, it was revealed.
He was appointed to the role three years after publishing a detailed blueprint that appeared to advocate the introduction of Islamic practices in schools, including covering up girls, gender segregation in some activities and the end of multicultural worship.
(AGI) - Abuja,- Armed men killed at least 8 Christians in their attack on a church in the central state of Plateau, and afterwards set the church on fire. The police made their statement, saying that for now they have not assigned the blame for the action, even though the MO and the aims of the attack lead to presuming it was the work by the Boko Haram Islamic Fundamentalists, who have killed thousands of people since 2009. (AGI) .
Police are investigating the murder of a Muslim cleric in the Coastal city of Mombasa.
Mohammed Idris 64 , chairman of the Council of Imam and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK) was shot dead on this morning outside his house in Likoni area .
Mombasa county commissioner Nelson Marwa said three assailants riding a motorbike confronted the Imam and shot him at close range as he was heading to the Mosque for morning prayers.
Militants kill 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in Baluchistan
Quetta: Militants have killed 23 Shia Muslim pilgrims in the Taftan area of the troubled Baluchistan province, officials said.
Four of the attackers had also been killed by the levies forces after heavy exchange of fire, Home Minister, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, told reporters.
The attack took place on Sunday when ten buses carrying Shia pilgrims came from Iran and stopped at a hotel in Taftan.
"As soon as the pilgrims came out of the buses to go to the hotel first a group of militants first opened indiscriminate firing on them and also threw hand grenades before rushing into the hotel and taking refuge there," Bugti said.
Suspected Boko Haram gunmen have reportedly kidnapped 20 women from a nomadic settlement in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, where the Islamic militants abducted more than 300 schoolgirls and young women on April 15.
Alhaji Tar, a member of the vigilante groups set up to resist Boko Haram's attacks, said the men arrived at noon Thursday in the Garkin Fulani settlement and forced the women to enter their vehicles at gunpoint. He says they drove away to an unknown location in the remote stretch of Borno state.
Christian Areas in Northeast Nigeria Suspected Boko Haram rebels kill nine volunteers guarding worship service.
By Our Nigeria Correspondent
Suspected Boko Haram Islamists killed nine Christians guarding a church service in Borno state on Sunday (June 1), hours before a bombing of a Christian area in neighboring Adamawa state resulted in at least 48 deaths, Christian leaders said.
Church Website blocked as 'Porn' in Turkish Parliament
Legislator Says Lawmaker demands investigation.
By Our Middle East Correspondent ISTANBUL
A Turkish legislator is demanding an investigation into why the website of at least one Turkish church was labeled pornography and blocked from computers at Turkey’s Grand National Assembly (TBMM).
While doing research on Wednesday (May 28) for a trip to Diyarbakir, Aykan Erdemir, a legislator from Bursa with the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), discovered that the website for Diyarbakir Church could not be accessed by members of the TBMM (or Parliament).
Iran’s secret police and Revolutionary Guard are subjecting Christians to a continuing wave of arrests, and increased torture and brutal beatings, in an effort to crush the house-church movement, activists said.
EXCLUSIVE: First picture of the baby born in a Sudan jail to mother sentenced to HANG for marrying a Christian
Meriam Ibrahim, 27, gave birth five days early yesterday after months shackled to floor
Father, U.S. citizen Daniel Wani, pictured with hours-old girl in barbaric jail in Khartoum where Meriam has spent her pregnancy shackled to floor
Doctor was sentenced to death for converting from Islam to Christianity after marrying, Daniel, a Christian who lives in New Hampshire
She will never see him grow up as she refuses to renounce Christianity
Lawyer told MailOnline: 'The family are taking time to enjoy the birth before they fight injustice'
By Arthur Martin
Proud: Father Daniel Wani, a U.S. citizen, from Manchester, New Hampshire, holds Maya for the first time after being allowed to visit to his wife, Meriam Ibrahim, who was sentenced to death for marrying him, a Christian
Sleeping peacefully in the arms of her father, this is precious baby Maya born in jail to the woman facing execution in Sudan for marrying a Christian U.S. citizen.
NEW YORK -- Abu Hamza al-Masri, the radical Islamic cleric who was extradited from the UK to the US in 2012, has been found guilty of terror-related charges by a federal court in New York. The verdict, reached after a four-week trial in Manhattan, means the cleric is likely to spend the rest of his life in a maximum security prison.
After two days of deliberation, the jury found Hamza, who was born Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, guilty on 11 counts, including planning to establish a jihad training camp in Oregon, conspiring to kidnap Americans in Yemen, facilitating violent jihad in Afghanistan and suppling the Taliban with goods and services.
Convert to Christianity in Sudan Faces Death for Apostasy: Islamic Sharia Law.
By Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker
The international community needs to stand up to the brutal reality of Islamic Sharia Law because this legal code is neo-medieval and based on apartheid logic. In Sudan the reality of Islamic Sharia law is clear for all to see because a female Muslim faces being hanged for merely marrying a Christian male and then renouncing Islam. This reality equally applies in other mainly Muslim nations that abide by Islamic Sharia law in its entirety. Therefore, it is essential that “liberal elites” in the West stop appeasing all the time. After all, this is merely encouraging Islamists to spread this apartheid logic within the body politic of mainly non-Muslim nations.
Pregnant Christian Sentenced to Death for 'Apostasy' Pressured to Embrace Islam
Woman in Sudan given three days to recant faith.
By Our Sudan Correspondent JUBA, South Sudan, May 12, 2014 (Morning Star News) – A court in Sudan that sentenced a pregnant Christian to death for allegedly leaving Islam is pressuring her to recant in exchange for leniency, sources said.
A Coptic Christian persecuted in Egypt and Libya for his religious beliefs is awarded refugee status, after the Refugee Appeals Board overturns its decision on appeal.
Chris Mangion
An Egyptian Coptic Christian is awarded refugee status after the Refugee Appeals Board upheld his arguments describing how, persecuted due to his religion, he was forced to flee his native country and come to Malta. The name of the refugee cannot be published by order of the Board.
An Egyptian Coptic Christian is awarded refugee status after the Refugee Appeals Board upheld his arguments describing how, persecuted due to his religion, he was forced to flee his native country and come to Malta. The name of the refugee cannot be published by order of the Board.
OBAMA ADMINISTRATION ACCUSED OF SUPPORTING RADICAL ISLAMISTS WHO ARE KILLING THOUSANDS OF CHRISTIANS Katie Gorka - Breitbart.com
A growing number of Syrian Christian leaders are traveling to the United States to plead with lawmakers to stop sending arms to the rebels. The most recent visitor is the Patriarch of the Church of Antioch, His Beatitude Gregorios III, who is based in Damascus.
For the first three years of the civil war, Syria’s Christian leaders have not been frequent visitors to the U.S., in part fearing reprisals when they return to Syria, but also because they have been reluctant to engage in what they see as political issues. But with the civil war now in its fourth year, they are taking a more public stance. Visiting Washington, D.C., in January of this year to speak about the war, Bishop Armash Nalbandian, primate of the Armenian Church of Damascus, said that after he witnessed the bombing of the St. John of Damascus School, which killed nine children, he did not care anymore about his own safety. He said he will now do and say anything to help end the war.
Islamist Extremists Publicly Crucify Two Syrian Rebels
Investigative Project on Terrorism
by IPT News
Radical Islamist groups fighting in Syria continue to conduct atrocities and executions. Now, reports indicate that extremists fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have publicly crucified two Syrian rebels.
The executions allegedly took place in Raqqa, a Syrian province under ISIL control. The terrorist organization, also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), continues to govern the territory by a strict interpretation of Islamic law and severely represses potential dissent. Earlier this year, the small Christian community remaining in Raqqa received an ultimatum demanding that they pay a tax and follow other strict rules, convert to Islam, or be killed.
Four of the attackers had also been killed by the levies forces after heavy exchange of fire, Home Minister, Mir Sarfaraz Bugti, told reporters.
