http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/christianpersecution/ en-us Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:34:31 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415218/posts An Islamist militant group based in Russia's North Caucases has claimed the killing last month of an Orthodox priest who was an outspoken critic of Islam. "One of our brothers who has never been to the Caucases took up the oath of (former independent Chechen president Doku Umarov) and expressed his desire to execute the damned Sysoyev," said a statement on the Kavkazcenter.com website. Daniil Sysoyev, 35, was killed on November 20 when masked gunman walked into Saint Thomas's church in southern Moscow and shot him four times. Doku Umarov emerged as the leader of the remaining active rebel movements... France24 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2415218/posts#comment Sat, 26 Dec 2009 07:34:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414873/posts The phenomenon of abduction, rape and forced Islamization of Christian girls in Egypt was shown for the first time on the Christian TV channel "Life TV", which broadcasts from outside Egypt and has nearly 60 million Arab-speaking viewers in Egypt and around the world. ... Ingy Adel, now 16, was abducted at the age of 12 on her way to school by being anaesthetized and bundled into a car. "I was taken into a room by a man called Sultan, who tied my hands behind my back and raped me," said Ingy. Four men followed Sultan in raping her, "I... Assyrian International News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2414873/posts#comment Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:32:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414328/posts SNIPPET: "The Chaldean Church of St. George and Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Thomas hit. One bomb was hidden in a cart carrying vegetables. The explosion kills a Chaldean Christian and two Muslim. Archbishop of Kirkuk: "disturbing message" to two days before Christmas." SNIPPET: "Mosul (AsiaNews) - Two separate bombs struck this morning in Mosul, the Chaldean church of St. George and Syriac Orthodox Church of St. Thomas. The death toll so far is of three dead - a Chaldean Christian and two Muslims - and several wounded. Louis Sako, archbishop of Kirkuk, speaks to AsiaNews of a "disturbing message"... ASIA NEWS.it http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414328/posts#comment Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:33:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412798/posts Note: Photos included. NOTE: The following text is a quote: Pakistani court acquits Christian girl and her father accused of blasphemy By Dan Wooding Monday, December 21, 2009 FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- A Pakistani Christian girl and her father who were accused of defiling the Qur’an (Muslim holy book), in October of last year were acquitted on December 14, 2009 after serving thirteen months and fourteen days in prison. Sanda and Gulsher Sandal, 22 and her father, Gulsher Masih, 47, were accused of committing sacrilege of the Qur’an on October 10, 2008. A criminal case was registered against the pair... ASSIST NEWS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412798/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:18:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412793/posts INTERNATIONAL "PAKISTANI MUSLIMS GUN DOWN CHRISTIAN FRIEND They order him to convert to Islam or die, after accusing him of murder." By Jawad Mazhar SNIPPET: "MUREEDKAY, Pakistan – A group of Muslims shot their Christian friend dead this month on the outskirts of this town after saying they would spare his life only if he recanted his faith, according to the young man’s father. The friends of Patras Masih, who died from gunshot wounds on Dec. 3 in Karol village, Punjab Province, issued the ultimatum to him after accusing him of the murder of their friend Anees Mahammad. An autopsy... (COMPASS DIRECT NEWS) via CHRISTIAN NEWS TODAY.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412793/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:10:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404912/posts Someone posted that original link broke, hence this repeat. “In a startling disclosure from an exchange at an East London mosque, Imam Abdul Makin and a leading Muslim lawyer have supported the killing and raping of non-Muslims, declaring all non-Muslims as guilty and subject to lethal abuse.” TownHall http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404912/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:23:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401364/posts NOTE the post's date and then realize that the persecution continues as I type; however, Muslims respond by stating all this is bogus. Some have to read Muslim prayers in order to survive. Others have to proclaim aloud that they have converted from Christianity to Islam in order not to be slain. Still others have to read from the Koran and say they agree with what they read. meskerem http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401364/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 05:03:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401717/posts A Vermont court ordered a Christian child taken away from her mother and given to a lesbian ex-partner, setting up, according to a lawyer for the Christian family, a dispute that the U.S. Supreme Court likely will have to resolve. Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, told WND the recent order from the Vermont judge that Lisa Miller turn over her young daughter, Isabella, to the lesbian ex-partner, Janet Jenkins, on New Year's Day is being appealed. In the interim, a separate court hearing on the dispute is scheduled to be heard in a Virginia court during this coming week.... WND via The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401717/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 23:29:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401407/posts Note: The following text is a quote: Thursday, December 3, 2009 Russia: jihad, terror, tensions and opportunities By Elizabeth Kendal Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB) 033 Special to ASSIST News Service AUSTRALIA (ANS) -- Back in December 2001, al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri identified Afghanistan and Chechnya as key to the jihadist cause. Regarding Chechnya, he noted that control of the North Caucasus would give al-Qaeda's Sunni jihadists a 'mujahid Islamic belt' from the Mediterranean through Turkey and the pan-Turkic regions of the Black and Caspian Seas into Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as Xingjiang in western China. Terrorism... ASSIST NEWS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401407/posts#comment Sun, 6 Dec 2009 09:19:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399170/posts If Christians do not keep watch over their freedom of religious expression, it could be taken away from them even in a free nation. Then they would be hampered like the Christians are in India. CanadaFreePress http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2399170/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 12:05:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396212/posts "Pakistani Christian on Run from Taliban Death Threat Islamic extremist sermonizing leads to altercation at barbershop in South Waziristan." SNIPPET: "LAHORE, Pakistan, November 27 (CDN) — A young Christian man is in hiding in Pakistan from Taliban militants who seek to kill him for “blasphemy” because he defended his faith. In February Jehanzaib Asher, 22, was working in a barbershop his family jointly owns with his cousin in Wana, South Waziristan – a Taliban stronghold in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan’s northwest – when the Islamic militants showed up to try to convert him to Islam." SNIPPET: "He... COMPASSDirect.org - COMPASS News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396212/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396211/posts Photos included. # SNIPPET: "Cairo (AINA) -- In an effort to cover up the Muslim mob violence against the Copts which broke out last week in the town of Farshoot and neighboring villages (AINA 11-22-2009, 11-23-2009), and in view of the complete news blackout imposed by the Egyptian government, Egyptian State Security has intensified its pressure on the Coptic Church in Nag Hammadi and the victims of the violence into accepting extrajudicial reconciliation with the perpetrators, and opening their businesses without any compensation. Similar State Security scenarios have been experienced by Copts in all sectarian incidents in the past, in... AINA.org - News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2396211/posts#comment Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:33:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395809/posts “How does what a person does in the privacy of his home hurt you”? Answer: When what is done in the privacy of one’s home is sanctioned by the government it creates a legitimization for that action or lifestyle that inevitably invades the homes of others through the media – newspapers, TV, movies, the internet – through the schools – requiring students, regardless of religious or moral beliefs, to take classes with the purpose of indoctrinating them with the State’s values – through the law – criminalizing thoughts, words, or actions (Hate Crime Laws) the State deems offensive or intolerant.... TheCypressTimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395809/posts#comment Sat, 28 Nov 2009 13:29:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392078/posts A 15-year-old Egyptian girl, Dina el-Gohary, has written an emotional appeal to President Obama asking him to use his influence to save her father, Maher el-Gohary, who is being persecuted for his beliefs. "Mr. President Obama, we are a minority in Egypt," Dina writes, according to a report from the Assyrian International News Agency. "We are treated very badly. ... We are imprisoned in our own home because Muslim clerics called for the murder of my father, and now the Government has set for us a new prison, we are imprisoned in our own country." Dina and her father are... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392078/posts#comment Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:14:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391199/posts The New York Times: “I don’t exclude that the murder is connected to the fact that he preached among and baptized those who belong to Muslim culture.” Russia Today http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2391199/posts#comment Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:27:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390862/posts A Russian Orthodox priest, Fr. Daniel Sysoyev, who carried out missionary work among immigrants from ex-Soviet republics, many of them Muslims, received over a dozen death threats before his murder on Thursday, a Russian paper said. Fr. Daniel of St. Thomas Church in Moscow foresaw his death, writing in his internet diary that he had received telephone threats from Muslims. Fr. Daniel’s evening ‘talks’ for inquirers included several especially designed for Muslims. RIA Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390862/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:46:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388608/posts Monday, November 16, 2009 Islamic Extremists Kill Somali Church Leader Thirteenth Christian Assassinated This Year By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON, D.C. (ANS) -- A human rights group has learned that members of al-Shabab (a Somali Islamic extremist group) have killed yet another leader of an underground church in the Somalia capital of Mogadishu. Washington-based International Christian Concern (ICC), reported that on Oct. 10, Pastor Ali Hussein Weheliye was returning home from a worship service when two masked members of al-Shabab ambushed and shot him. He was later taken to Darful Shifa Hospital where he died of... ASSIST NEWS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2388608/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:30:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2385641/posts Kazakhstan: Christian Fined, Deported Two Christian brothers, Viktor and Didrikh Leven, have been convicted of participating in religious worship without state registration in Akmola Region, Kazakhstan, according to Forum18 News. On Oct. 14, Viktor, who was born in Kazakhstan but holds German citizenship, was found guilty of "carrying out missionary activity without local registration" under Article 375-3 of Kazakhstan’s Administrative Code. The charge is punishable by a fine and/or deportation for individuals who are not citizens. Viktor was fined a total of 6,480 Tenge (US $43) and ordered deported. He successfully appealed his sentence, and his fine and deportation have... Voice of the Martyrs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2385641/posts#comment Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:02:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387036/posts BEIJING - As President Barack Obama prepares for his first visit to China, leaders of the unapproved churches there are condemning his administration for indifference to the increasing persecution they are facing. The latest example of that persecution came Sunday as followers of an unapproved church in Beijing were again forced by the government to find a new place to worship. Worship in China, governed by the officially atheist Communist Party, is allowed only in state-approved churches, but millions of people belong to unregistered churches that often face official harassment. AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2387036/posts#comment Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:40:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374223/posts SNIPPET: ""Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. That's why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish those who would deny it." -- Barack Obama, Cairo, June 4, 2009 But what about the rights of women like this one -- the right not to wear the hijab? Who is standing up for them? "BREAKING NEWS: Somalia Militants Kill... (BosNewsLife) via JIHAD WATCH.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2374223/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:16:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369831/posts High school student Chad Farnan, 17, speaks at a campaign fundraiser for Shawn Black, a GOP candidate for the 70th Assembly District, earlier this month. The legal group that represents Farnan, Advocates for Faith & Freedom, has been ordered to pay $19,688 in legal fees. SANTA ANA – In a legal twist that challenges the notion of what a prevailing party is, a federal court clerk on Friday awarded $19,688 in court-related fees to the attorneys who represented high school teacher James Corbett, sued two years ago for making anti-Christian comments in class. Milli Borgarding, the deputy in charge of... Orange County Register http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2369831/posts#comment Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:08:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365553/posts Several parents - named as victims in the indictment against three Baptist Union leaders now on trial in Tashkent - have told the court that statements that their children were taught the Baptist faith against their wishes were fabricated or dictated by Investigator Anatoli Tadjibayev, Forum 18 News Service has learnt. The head of Uzbekistan’s Baptist Union Pavel Peichev and two colleagues went on trial on 24 September accused of teaching religion illegally to children at church-run summer camps and evading tax on profits from the camp. They deny all the charges - which carry punishment of up to three... Forum 18 News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365553/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 07:09:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365151/posts Washington -- SNIPPET: "Rev. Zaheer Khan, pastor of Maghoo Memorial Church, Rev. Aamir Azeem, pastor of United Christians Church and Rev. Zafar Akhter, pastor of United Presbyterian Church each received a copy of threatening letter. The Islamists sent the letters to the following Christian institutions: St Peter's Middle School, Sargodha Institute of Technology, Sargodha Catholic High School, St John's Primary School and Fatima Hospital. Besides the Christian institutions, the letter was also sent to the main Immam-Bar-Gha (Shiite Muslim's gathering hall). Shiites are a minority Muslim group in Pakistan where the majority of the population is Sunni Muslim. ICC's Jonathan... AINA.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365151/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:02:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365147/posts DHAREMA, PAKISTAN (BosNewsLife)-- A Christian schoolgirl in Pakistan's Punjab province was recovering Sunday, October 11, after she was allegedly "ruthlessly beaten" with a bamboo stick by a Muslim headteacher for saying she is "a Pakistani" citizen. The bedridden Nadia Iftikhar, 11, told BosNewsLife she was seriously injured when the teacher of the local evening coaching school 'Bright Future Academy' in the town of Dharema got angry because she challenged her views on Islam. “Our teacher was teaching us about the culture of Pakistan and Pakistani people and quoted a sentence from the text book saying 'We are Pakistani and all... BOS News Life.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365147/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:57:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364994/posts Note: Photos included. Note: The following text is a quote: Friday, October 16, 2009 Nationalists target Calvary Chapel Kaharlyk in Ukraine with firebomb attack By Peter Wooding Special to ASSIST News Service KAHARLYK, UKRAINE (ANS) -- The pastor of Calvary Chapel Kaharlyk, just south of Kiev in Ukraine, is thanking God for His protection, after their church building, where his family lives, was hit by a firebomb attack by suspected nationalists. In the early hours of Wednesday October 14th the attackers sprayed painted on the church wall: “Out with Sects” “ОУН” an abbreviated name for a Ukrainian Nationalist movement. Pastor... ASSIST NEWS SERVICE http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2364994/posts#comment Sun, 18 Oct 2009 08:46:17 GMT