Real-time updates on incidents, legal cases, policy changes, and testimonies from the persecuted Church.
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…
Bulgaria’s Non Orthodox Churches Fear New Law
Posted on Tuesday, December 17, 2002
Bulgaria's Protestant churches have urged President Georgi Parvanov to veto a law that would force non-Orthodox Christians and other minority groups to obtain court approval to operate in the Balkan country.
15 Suicide Attacks Prevented in Israeli Territory
Posted on Friday, December 6, 2002
Jerusalem (Bridges for Peace) -- The Israeli Defense Minister disclosed that during the past week the security forces prevented 15 attacks that were intended against Israeli citizens and, in addition, arrested over 400 terrorist activists. "The IDF and…
Shooting Incident in Southern Mexico Signals Rising Tension
Posted on Tuesday, November 26, 2002
Traditionalist Catholic "caciques"(village leaders) in Chiapas, Mexico, accused evangelical Christians of provoking a violent confrontation that left seven people wounded by high powered rifles. However, the 27 evangelical Christian families left homeless for two weeks following the shooting…
Christians Killed and Churches Burned in Nigerian Riots Sparked
Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002
by Miss World Protests At least one hundred people were killed and 200 injured yesterday as Muslim youths rampaged through the capital of Kaduna State in Nigeria in protest at a newspaper article that was said to have…
More Than 200 Churches Destroyed in Kaduna, Nigeria
Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002
Christian University Worker Arrested for Controversial Prayer by Obed Minchakpu KADUNA, Nigeria (Compass) — A total of 294 churches have been burned in Kaduna city of northern Nigeria during Muslim-Christian clashes since the Kaduna state government decided to…
Christian Nurse Shot Dead at Lebanese Clinic
Posted on Friday, November 22, 2002
A female American missionary has been shot dead at a Christian heath clinic in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon, according to the Reuters news agency.
