Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
Somali Christians and Missionaries Murdered
Posted on Sunday, January 19, 2003
Several Christians and Westerners have been killed in violent attacks as anti-Christian violence spreads throughout the mainly Islamic, impoverished African nation, Barnabas Fund said Friday Dec. 19.
Kidnapped Iraqi Archbishop Released Unharmed
Posted on Saturday, January 18, 2003
ISTANBUL, January 18 (Compass) -- Less than 24 hours after armed gunmen kidnapped the Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul, the 66-year-old cleric was set free today unharmed.
Muslim Backlash in Indonesia?
Posted on Monday, January 13, 2003
Indonesia watchers are saying that the recent violence by Islamic radicals in the 13,000-island nation may actually be driving people from Islam.
Sri Lanka: Violent Persecution Increasing
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2003
t the beginning of the 20th century (1900), Buddhism claimed a following of around 20 percent of the world's population. By the end of the 20th century it was down to 5 percent. This is largely because Buddhists…
North Korea: Christians Suffer as Political Prisioners
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2003
Hwang Jang-yop was once a spokesman for late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and his son and successor, Kim Jong Il. He has lived under the protection of South Korean intelligence since becoming the most senior defector…
The Forgotten Christians of Iraq
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2003
While the Kurds of Northern Iraq are well known, for some reason almost completely ignored in the current discussion are 1.2 million Assyrian Christians living, many in their historic lands in Iraq.
Blair Woos Leftwing Mitzna in England
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2003
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was getting battered at home, British Prime Minister Tony Blair was hosting Sharon’s chief opponent in the upcoming Israeli elections, Labor Party chairman Amram Mitzna. Blair said on Thursday that…
Sharon Speech Cut in Mid-Sentence as He Defends Himself
Posted on Friday, January 10, 2003
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- Israeli politics reached a crescendo of scandal and media hype on Thursday night as embattled Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, walloped in the past week by accusations of wrongdoing, was cut off mid-sentence during a speech…
Anti-Semitism Splashed All Over Cult’s Web Site
Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2003
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- The web sites of the cult-UFO group, Rael, which claimed last week to have cloned a woman, are rife with potent anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli propaganda tucked among movement’s doctrines and cloning stories.
Arab Candidates Can Run for Election, Supreme Court Rules
Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2003
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- The Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday overturned the Central Elections Committee's decision to disqualify two Arab Knesset members and the Balad party from running in the Jan. 28 election.
Labor’s Plan: Withdraw Israelis from Gaza Within One Year
Posted on Thursday, January 9, 2003
Jerusalem (ICEJ) -- A Labor-led government would drain the Jewish settlements in Gaza and transfer Israelis living there to the Negev and the southern coastal plain within one year, according to an internal Labor Party document obtained by…
Religious Liberty 2003
Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2003
Lack of religious freedom has always been an issue in Islam; however, the advance of the Islamic renewal movement and Islamic militancy has accentuated this. The rise of Hindutva over the past decade now extends to alleged government…
Chinese Christian Family Beaten and Left in the Cold
Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2003
At about 8:00 p.m. on Sunday, January 5, 2003, approximately 10 unidentified men burst into the home of Brother Hua Huiqi and his wife, Ju Mei in Beijing. Forcing all of the members of the household, including Hua's…
