New Constitution to remove restrictions on churches in Egypt
A 50-member committee tasked with revamping Egypt’s current constitution has removed the document’s repressive restrictions on church construction, according to Barnabas Aid.
A 50-member committee tasked with revamping Egypt’s current constitution has removed the document’s repressive restrictions on church construction, according to Barnabas Aid.
Eritrean security forces recently raided yet another prayer meeting, arresting about 150 Christians in a suburb of Asmara, the African nation’s capital, according to Religion Today.
Although nine of Nigeria’s 37 states are now under Islamic law, its penalties are enforced to different degrees of strictness, according to BarnabasAid.
Violent and unrestrained Islamist militants have caused the Central African Republic to descend into chaos, according to BarnabasAid.
Tunisia’s Islamist government is about to resign after the assassinations of two secular opposition leaders led to months of protests, according to BarnabasAid.
Herdsmen killed 15 Christians in Nigeria’s Kaduna state early Saturday morning when Fulani Muslims assaulted the Christian village of Zangang.
An Islamic conference of 160 Somali scholars recently issued a fatwa declaring that al-Shabaab doesn’t represent Islam and Muslims shouldn’t support this militant Islamist group, according to Voice of the Martyrs.
Claiming Christians don’t belong in Zanzibar, extremists threw acid on a 60-year-old Catholic priest Friday, according to Morning Star News.
In Nigeria’s Borno state, Christian leaders last week decried the government’s plan to demolish 25 Christian buildings in order to make room for a housing project, according to Morning Star News.
A Moroccan Christian has been fined and jailed for “shaking the faith of a Muslim.”
More than four months after Islamic rebels seized control of the Christian-majority Central African Republic (CAR), many non-Muslims are now faced with the prospect of being forced to live under Islamic law, according to Morning Star News.
After the ouster of Egypt’s Muhammad Morsi, many of his followers took out their frustrations against the Christian houses of worship, schools and orphanages of Minya Governorate, according to AsiaNews.
An Egyptian Christian cleric has chastised President Barack Obama and his administration for not speaking out against the Muslim Brotherhood’s persecution of the Church, according to the Christian Broadcasting Network News.
Recently a mob of Muslims injured members of an Anglican church in Nasarawa state, Nigeria, all because of a minor dispute, according to Morning Star news.
Instead of sectarian strife, Islamic terrorism sanctioned by state-sponsored discrimination against Christians in northern Nigeria has led to outright genocide, the general secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria told Morning Star News.
Bishop Joannes Zakaria said that although Christians in Egypt are running out of food, they’re afraid to leave their homes because of the incessant attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the Catholic News Agency.
Islamists suspected to be al-Shabaab militants who had kidnapped a Christian mother of two in Somalia have now threatened her husband.
Defense Minister Gen. Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has ordered the repair of all churches that were damaged during the Muslim Brotherhood’s violent protests after Egypt’s military removed President Mohamed Morsi from office, according to a report by the Mid-East Christian News.
Supporters of ousted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi took out their frustrations on church property and Christian-owned homes and businesses in response to Wednesday’s destruction of two Muslim Brotherhood encampments in Cairo after negotiations had broken down between the Brotherhood and Egypt’s interim government.
The following are excerpts of an open letter published Sunday by the Pakistan Christian Post from Ashraf Ramelah, founder and president of “Voice of the Copts,” to the EU High Representative Catherine Ashton.