NIGERIA. According to the United Nations Centre for Peace and Disarmament the 500 million illegal weapons that flooded into West Africa after the Libyan crisis in 2011, 350 million (70%) ended up in Nigeria. Most of them ended up with the Fulani herders. Nice... A 19-year old Christian woman, Joy Danlami, became a victim of … Continue reading Christians Are Slaughtered like Chickens
The violence Christians are suffering in Nigeria have gathered attention due to the massacre in Christchurch as many questioned the medias hypocrisy. Even local media in Nigeria seldom report on the attacks. 6 000 persons were killed during 2018 and there wasn't any distress, no "thoughts and prayers" nor aany candlelit demonstrations in the west. … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 11
International Christian Concern has documented at least 60 attacks by Boko Harams and Fulani Militias in Nigeria during February. A total of 205 people in the Middle Belt and northern Nigeria were killed. Boko Haram was responsible for 126 deaths and 83 of them were civilians (mostly in Borno State). Fulani militants were also responsible … Continue reading Persecutions of Christians – week 10
On February 9 ten churches in a village in southern Ethiopia were attacked by local Muslims. One church was destroyed and the property of all ten of them was burned (it's believed that the other buildings were spared because of the risk that they would harm houses owned by Muslims close by). Some Christians got … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 9
A church from the 1100s in Falköping, Sweden, was scrawled on. It was swastikas, the cross of St. Peter and the words Die Jew and Hitler. If the culprits are Nazis: why not go down to the mosque then? Do they expect to insult Jews in a Church? On February 11 a man by the … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 8
On February 16 the election will be held in Nigeria and current president Buhari hope to be re-elected. He has made promises to free Leah Sharibu and to stop the Fulani Militia, but nothing has happened. The last news came in October. There is no updated status report on Leah and on February 19 she … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 6
Kuwaiti Islamic cleric Othman al-Khamis has issued another statement in his weekly fatwa session by encouraging his followers to kill apostates. He has a long history of inciting hate towards Christians. The law in Kuwait technically prohibits defamation of the Abrahamic faiths, but as Islam is the state religion and there are only 267 Christian … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 5
In November 82-year old Märta in Sweden took a taxi home from the doctor, but the Muslim driver stopped in the middle of nowhere and ordered her to leave the cab. According to the driver Märta had said hostile things about Islam, but Märta denies this and say that he wanted her to leave after … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 2
The United Kingdom have plan to deport Asher Samson, 41, who came to the country from Pakistan to study to be a pastor. He later applied for asylum because he was beaten and repeatedly threatened with execution by Islamic extremists at home. He has said that he fear for his life. Also, the UK have … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 52
Asia Bibi is still in Pakistan and haven't been able to meet two of her children in order to keep them protected. But they talk on the phone every day. The family have had to change home four times since the aquittal and family friend Joseph says: She is an incredible woman! She has kept … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 48
Leah Sharibu, the Christian girl in Nigeria who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, are still imprisoned. Her captors have declared that she is now their slave and that they can, according to their doctrines, do what they want with her. And we all know what Mohammed taught about female slaves (1 & 2). One of … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 42
Muslims in Indonesia want the laws to be more Islamic and that means that Christians get a harder time. The authorities have now closed down three churches without to giving any other reason than “administrative reasons”. Nobody knows why these churches were singled out, but for the last ten years about a thousand churches have been … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 40
Abdel lives in the Middle East and when he converted to Christianity he couldn't get a job so his parents initially help him with his bills. But his mother came to him with a checkbook and a burial shroud wanting him to choose between Islam or death. Two months later Abdel was kidnapped by a … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 39
42 persons, mainly women returning to their farms, were hacked to death with machetes by Islamist rebels during 4-5 September. This happened in the Bria region in the Central African Republic where the majority is Christian. Other things that happens regularly is armed robberies, kidnappings and other type of attacks against civilians. Christian citizens is … Continue reading Persecutions of Christians – week 38
2018-09-04 The Egyptian law changed in 2016 and since then all churches have to be recogniced by local officials. Over 3700 churches are still waiting and some have been waiting for that recognition for many years before 2016. So far only 220 have gotten their licenses. Because of the lack of churches people meet in … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – Week 36
The Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad have written about how the Christians in Iraq are caught between survival and migration. During the last 13 years the situation has worsened and violence is very common. Even though Christians is the original people of Iraq they can no longer flourish there. The persecution of Christians in Iran keep … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 35
The Christian convert Amir Saman Dashti were sentenced by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Court to four months in prison for Christian activities. Ramiel Bet Tamraz was also sentenced to four months for being Christian. Believers are often sent to the prison Evin who is the roughest prison and it's known that torture is used. Amir spent … Continue reading Persecution of Christians -week 31
20 Christians were seriously injured, including broken bones, when their prayer meeting was attacked by about 35 Hindu radicals in Raikashipur, India. The Christians were accused of forcing conversions and now have several criminal charges against them. There haven't been any cosequences for the Hindus. The Fulani Militia attacked several villages in Nigeria and 50 people … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 28
2018-06-03 During the last year and a half the Myanmar military have bombed 60 churches and turned some of them into Buddhist pagodas. The Kachin people who are 95% Christian are beaing treatened increasingly worse. Murders and rape have occured. A spirituality center for Franciscan nuns in the southern Philippines were raided by both police and … Continue reading Persection of Christians – week 27
2018-06-25 In Visoko in the Croat-Muslim part of Bosnia & Herzegovina a Serbian Orthodox church were set on fire. The altar, books and icons were destroyed and parts of the roof. Up to 30 polices raided the Bible Reformed Church in Guangzhou, China, and the pastor and several members of the parish were arrested. They were … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 26
