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
SWEDEN. A reporter at Aftonbladet, one of the biggest newspapers in Sweden and partly owned by the Social Democratic Party, quickly came to the conclusion Open Doors was a cult. Besna Keyrouz called Aftonbladet to bring their attention to the new World Watch List by Open Doors. The reporter who took her call wasn't very … Continue reading Reporter Calls Open Doors Cult
During five days the Christians in the Indian province of Telangana were attacked at three different occasions. Hindu radicals physically attacked them (and some ended up in the hospital), burned Bibles and damaged a car. They didn't dare to report it to the police, but managed to have their christmas event after changing places at last … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 51
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
Four Catholic priests were abducted by armed men this week in Nigeria. Before the kidnapping the men shot at the priests cars and abused them. Three weeks ago five nuns were kidnapped in the same area, but they were released after two weeks. A small forest church in Italy have been vandalized to a cost … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 45
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
On September 30 a journalist was arrested and detained for five days without charges in Syria. The police searched his apartment confiscating a laptop, a computer, and four of his cell phones. For five days he was in custody before being released and he was never told his charges. Nobody knows still, but he had … Continue reading Persecution of Christians – week 41
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
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
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
