Authorities in Egypt have abetted the kidnapping and forcible conversion to Islam of a Coptic Christian woman
According to a widely published expert on the Middle East and Islam.
Irene Ibrahim Shehata, a 21-year-old medical student at Asyut National University, disappeared on Jan. 22 between mid-term exams in Asyut, according to Raymond Ibrahim, distinguished senior Shillman fellow at the Gatestone Institute.
"Persecution is simply the clash between two irreconcilable value-systems." ~ John Stott
PAKISTAN: Mixed Outcomes for Christians Accused of Blasphemy
Sources: The News International, India Today, Morning Star News, Kross Konnection, AsiaNews, USCIRF
Patras Masih Photo: Morning Star News
In February 2018, 17-year-old Patras Masih allegedly shared content on social media which some found to be blasphemous. In the wake of this post, riots broke out in his neighbourhood of Lahore. Patras was taken into custody and authorities also tortured his cousin Sajid, who jumped from a window to escape, resulting in serious injuries.
A Coptic priest has been stabbed to death in Egypt by a passerby outside a beach club on a popular seaside promenade.
The knifeman stabbed Arsanious Wadid, 56, three times in the Sidi Bishr area of the northern city of Alexandria on Thursday.
Wadid, who served as a priest in the city's Meharam Bek district, was rushed to Mostafa Kamel Military hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
Egyptian security services arrested an elderly man who was allegedly seen stabbing the priest to death by several witnesses in Alexandria, Egypt's interior ministry said.
Teacher is killed by female colleague and her nieces who slit her throat after a relative 'DREAMT' she had insulted the Prophet Mohammed in Pakistan
A teacher was killed by a female colleague and her nieces outside an all-girls school after a relative 'dreamt' she had insulted the Prophet Mohammed, Pakistan police said today. Pictured: Female students queue outside a school in Pakistan (file photo)
Police said two students and a teacher ambushed Safoora Bibi at the school gate
They attacked teacher at the all-girls school with a knife and a stick, police said
The two girls told police a relative had dreamt the murdered woman 'had committed blasphemy' against the Prophet Mohammed, officers said
Investigators are looking at whether the main suspect had a personal grudge
Petition handed to Home Secretary to help Christian Pakistan girl
Christian MP Fiona Bruce has handed a petition to Home Secretary Priti Patel, to raise continued concerns about Pakistan Christian girl Maira Shahbaz.
Maria, aged just 14 was kidnapped, forced into marriage and converted before escaping, only to be forced into hiding after her abductor accused her of apostasy.
More than 12,000 people signed an Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) petition calling on Prime Minister Boris Johnson to grant asylum to Maira.
Dozens of influential Muslim figures were handpicked by the government to take part in the new Forum of Islam. Critics say it is an attempt by French President Emmanuel Macron to gain right-wing support.
The government has set up a new body to reshape Islam in France, including the domestic training of imams (prayer leaders)
France will host the first summit of the Forum of Islam on Saturday, a new body that aims to reshape life for Muslims in the country and rid the religion of extremism.
A trove of data uncovered by the Middle East Forum details almost 46,000 grants made by the Qatari regime-controlled Sheikh Eid bin Mohammad Al Thani Charitable Association, also known as the Eid Charity, to radical Islamic organizations all around the world. A significant amount ended up in Europe and North America: some 380 grants to 41 recipients, totaling just under $37 million, distributed between 2004 and 2019.
Since 2014, the Belgian police have identified and closed 192 entities, including prayer rooms and organisations, linked to radical Islamic terrorism in Brussels as part of an anti-terror project.
The Belgian Fighters project — Belfi for short — placed a total of 832 entities under observation and closed 192 of them for links to radical Islamic terrorism between 2014 and the end of 2020.
In addition, 308 illegal migrants were arrested and 19 of them subject to further charges and judicial arrest, according to the Belgian federal police, newspaper La Dernière Heure reports.
The Belgian government has stripped the residency permit of the chief imam of the Al Khalil Grand Mosque in Molenbeek Mohamed Toujgani over concerns relating to national security issues.
Belgian Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi announced this week that the government has stripped Imam Toujgani’s residency permit in light of concerns raised by the country’s security services who claimed that the imam showed signs of being a serious risk to Belgian national security.
Emad Al Swealmeen (pictured), 32, started building a bomb factory at a rented bedsit as early as April, according to police
The Liverpool Women's Hospital bomber lied about converting to Christianity and was a practising Muslim, an inquest has heard.
Iraqi-born Emad Al Swealmeen, 32, died from an explosion and subsequent fire when his device detonated in the Ford Focus Delta Taxi as it pulled up outside the hospital shortly before 11am on November 14.
A Danish Christian newspaper was shown the realities of the blasphemy laws of Pakistan, when interviewing Juliet Chowdhry from British Asian Christian Association, at the launch of a Danish translation of Asia Bibi’s memoirs.
Asia Bibi was wrongfully arrested and convicted of a blasphemy n 2009 the same year as the British Asian Christian Association was formed (click here).
The Metropolitan Police said there was a potential link to Islamist extremism. A 25-year-old British man of Somlai heretiage was arrested at the scene on suspicion of murder.
Exposing the role that Islamic jihad theology and ideology play in the modern global conflictsPakistan: Muslim emergency staff refuses to save Christian sewage workers because they’re ritually unclean, two die
“O you who believe, the idolaters only are unclean….” (Qur’an 9:28)
In traditional Islamic theology, Christians are idolaters for believing in the divinity of Christ. “They indeed have disbelieved who say, Indeed, Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary.” (Qur’an 5:17)
A Christian sewer worker fell unconscious after entering a known dangerous sewer with high toxicity, after being threatened with the sack when he initially refused.
Two Christian friends concerned about the unconscious man lost their lives trying to rescue him from the known death trap.
If what the political and media elites in the West tell us about Islam were true, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan would be a paradise of tolerance and peace for the nation’s religious minorities. Why isn’t it?
“Twelve Incidents of Persecution Documented Against Pakistani Christian Women and Girls in Two Months,” International Christian Concern, September 25, 2021:
09/25/2021 Washington, D.C. (International Christian Concern) – In recent months, a disturbing spike in sexual assaults against Christian women and girls in Pakistan has been documented by International Christian Concern (ICC). In July and August alone, ICC discovered 12 incidents in which a Christian woman or girl was sexually assaulted or abducted, forcefully converted to Islam, and forcefully married to one of her abductors.
Taliban going door-to-door searching for Christians, inspecting phones for Bible apps
By Ryan Foley,
Christian Post Reporter
As the Taliban continue to gain control of Afghanistan following the pullout of U.S. troops, leaders of the underground Christian church are warning of the implications for religious minority groups in the country.
How much attention is this getting in the mainstream media? How much attention is the media givingthe genocide against Christians in Africa?
The mainstream media prefers to promote “Islamophobia” initiatives, and unvetted, suicidal mass migration policies, which allow some of the same jihadists who are murdering Christians in the Middle East and Africa an easy opportunity to enter Western countries and live off taxpayers while continuing their jihad.
The jihad worldwide continues with cover from a far-Left, activist media and an increasing number of intimidated conservatives.
“Syria’s Christian population reduced by two-thirds since 2011: party,” by Karwan Faidhi Dri, Rudaw, August 9, 2021:
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — About two-thirds of Syria’s Christians have fled the country in the past decade of conflict in the country, according to data from an Assyrian political party.
Coptic Minor Released After Serving Blasphemy Sentence
07/28/2021 Egypt (International Christian Concern) – On July 15, 2020 a young 17-year-old Coptic Egyptian man was detained for blasphemy charges for comments made on Facebook. One year later on July 18, 2021, he was finally allowed to walk free after his time in prison. He admitted that he had made the comments against Muhammad via an account under a different name.
Sodomized Christian man has pressurized air pumped through his body rupturing his intestines and rectum leading to slow painful death
Image Shehzad Masih (RIP)
A 35 year old Christian labourer known to be a hard worker has been killed by two Muslim men who burst his intestines by inserting high pressure air into his Anus.
It is believed that before he died Shehzad Masih was gang-raped by the two Muslim men.
The brutal use of high pressure air in such sickening fashion is belived to be have been an attempt to hide the sexual offence the men committed.
Doctor in Pakistan 'forcefully converts 13-year-old Christian girl to work in kitchen'
Sat 26 Jun 2021
The Centre for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement (CLAAS) is calling on the government in Pakistan to intervene to help a family get their daughter back following allegations she was forcefully converted to Islam.
Munawar Masih, a Christian by faith, and his wife Mehtan Bibi from Muzaffargarh, work with a local landlord for Rs. 8000 a month. They have eight children: Neha 13, Sneha 11, Marriam 12, Anaya 7, Vishal, 9, Sagar 8, Prem,10 and Adeel, 6.
The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting "Allah u Akbar" (God is greatest) opened Monday with a description of his "atypical" and enigmatic profile.
Investigators questioned why he carried two machetes if he intended only to damage works of art (Getty)
The trial of an Egyptian who attacked soldiers at the Louvre museum with machetes, shouting "Allah u Akbar" (God is greatest) opened Monday with a description of his "atypical" and enigmatic profile.
![Louvre attacker [AFP]](https://english.alaraby.co.uk/sites/default/files/media/images/7F311308-8D1F-4C87-B352-E684728A4127.jpg "Louvre attacker [AFP]")