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  • Islamic Extremists Kill Pastor, Raze Churches in Nigeria

    07/30/2009 10:00:38 AM PDT · by Cindy · 12 replies · 1,077+ views
    Washington, D.C. (July 29, 2009) – International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that Islamic extremists killed a pastor and razed five churches in the city of Maiduguri, Nigeria, on July 27. The extremists also attacked two churches in the Nigerian city of Potiskum. Yakubu Sabo, a husband and father of seven, was hacked to death with a machete by members of a violent Islamic militant group know as Boko Haram (which means “education is prohibited”). Sabo pastored a Church of Christ congregation in Maiduguri. Deeper Life Church, Evangelical Mission, and Church of the Brethren are three of five other churches...
  • Victims of June 30 Muslim violence continue to receive threats

    07/03/2009 2:12:07 AM PDT · by Cindy · 6 replies · 551+ views
    ASSIST NEWS SERVICE ^ | July 2, 2009 | Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan
    Note: Photos included. Note: The following text is a quote: Thursday, July 2, 2009 Victims of June 30 Muslim violence continue to receive threats About 100 Christian homes and churches were set on fire By Dan Wooding and Sheraz Khurram Khan Special to ASSIST News Service KASUR, PAKISTAN (ANS) -- The Muslim anger over a blasphemy accusation against Christians has not apparently subsided, as Christian villagers from Bhamniwala, which is located in the district of Kasur in Punjab province, Pakistan, continue to face threats from radical Islamists. Christians of Bhamniwala village await justice The local Christians were attacked by 500...
  • Gay Hate Crimes against Churches?

    05/15/2009 8:02:24 AM PDT · by truthnomatterwhat · 14 replies · 1,584+ views
    A Law suit was filed in federal court May 13, 2009 against a radical anarchist group that openly advocates the use of riots and crime to further its views in favor of homosexual behavior. The complaint was filed on behalf of Delta Township’s Mount Hope Church in Michigan against the group “Bash Back!,” which invaded the church’s building during a worship service on Nov. 9 of last year. “The use of violent threats and criminal behavior to make a political point should never be acceptable in America,” said ADF attorney Gary McCaleb. “Bash Back! revealed how dangerous the homosexual agenda...
  • Travel Warning: Sudan

    04/09/2009 4:57:19 PM PDT · by Cindy · 6 replies · 473+ views
    OSAC ^ | n/a
    Note: The following text is a quote: https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=100131 YOU ARE HERE: Home > Reports > Consular Affairs Bulletins > Report Travel Warning: Sudan CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS Sub-Saharan Africa - Sudan 8 Apr 2009 Printer Friendly Email Article RELATED REPORTS Today SOUTHERN SUDAN STABILITY CONCERNS 24 Mar 2009 SUDAN 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: KHARTOUM 24 Mar 2009 SUDAN 2009 CRIME & SAFETY REPORT: JUBA 9 Mar 2009 TRAVEL WARNING: SUDAN 4 Mar 2009 WARDEN MESSAGE: SUDAN DEMONSTRATIONS The U.S. Department of State issued the following Travel Warning on April 8: The Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks...
  • Chief: Gov. Palin's home church damaged by arson

    12/13/2008 7:06:20 PM PST · by 2ndDivisionVet · 64 replies · 2,744+ views
    Associated Press via Townhall ^ | December 13, 2008 | Rachel D'Oro
    <p>Gov. Sarah Palin's home church was badly damaged by arson, leading the governor to apologize if the fire was connected to "undeserved negative attention" from her failed campaign as the Republican vice presidential nominee.</p> <p>Damage to the Wasilla Bible Church was estimated at $1 million, authorities said Saturday. No one was injured in the fire, which was set Friday night while a handful of people, including two children, were inside, according to Central Mat-Su Fire Chief James Steele.</p>
  • “Gays” Call for Violence Against Christian Supporters of Prop 8

    11/06/2008 10:33:31 AM PST · by DestinyEagle · 125 replies · 6,644+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | 5 November 2008 | Matt Barber
    In a stunning reaction to the passage of state constitutional marriage protection amendments in California, Arizona and Florida, several self identified homosexuals on a number of homosexual blogs are advocating violence against Christians and other supporters of traditional marriage. Additionally, some homosexuals are calling for church burnings in response to yesterday’s three state referenda in defense of natural marriage. In a blog entry titled “You’ll Want to Punch them” on Queerty.com, poster “BillyBob Thornton” wrote, “… I have never considered being a violent radical extremist for our Equal Rights, But now I think maybe I should consider becoming one.” “Stenar”...
  • 'Gay' threats target Christians over same-sex 'marriage' ban 'Burn their f---ing churches...'

    11/06/2008 1:08:44 PM PST · by buccaneer81 · 54 replies · 3,020+ views
    Men's News Daily ^ | November 05, 2008 | NA
    'Gay' threats target Christians over same-sex 'marriage' ban 'Burn their f---ing churches, then tax charred timbers' Posted: November 05, 2008 11:00 pm Eastern © 2008 WorldNetDaily Decisions by voters in Florida, Arizona and California to join residents of 27 other states with constitutional protections for traditional marriage have prompted threats of violence against Christians and their churches. "Burn their f---ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers," wrote "World O Jeff" on the JoeMyGod blogspot today within hours of California officials declaring Proposition 8 had been approved by a margin of 52 percent to 48 percent. Confirmation...
  • Obama backer avoids DNC following Corsi book release

    09/03/2008 8:35:59 PM PDT · by hope · 17 replies · 286+ views
    WND ^ | 9-3-08
    WorldNetDaily staff reporter and columnist Jerome Corsi's book "The Obama Nation" contributed to a decision by Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga not to accept Sen. Barack Obama's invitation to attend the Democratic National Convention, according to a prominent Kenyan newspaper. "The cancellation of the trip by Mr. Odinga comes hot on the heels of the publication of a book that is being used to attack Mr. Obama in which the PM [Prime Minister] features," wrote Kenya's Daily Nation. "The book, The Obama Nation, by Jerome Corsi depicts Mr. Obama as a covert sympathizer of radical Islam and communism." "In the...
  • Great (American) Expectations: Barack Obama shows why foreigners consider us naive.

    01/08/2008 3:25:11 PM PST · by forkinsocket · 12 replies · 68+ views
    Opinion Journal ^ | January 8, 2008 | BRET STEPHENS
    Barack Obama, still fresh from his victory in Iowa last week and confident of another in New Hampshire tonight, has as his signature campaign theme the promise to "end the division" in America. Notice the irony: The scale of his Iowa victory, in a state that's 94% white, is perhaps the clearest indication so far that the division Mr. Obama promises to end has largely been put to rest. Meanwhile, in Kenya last week a mob surrounded a church in which, according to an Associated Press report, "hundreds of terrified people had taken refuge." The church was put to flame,...
  • Two arrested in east Alabama church arsons

    01/08/2008 10:15:02 PM PST · by Coleus · 4 replies · 184+ views
    Clanton Advertiser ^ | January 8, 2008 | Jay Reeves
    Two men who authorities said dabbled in devil worship have been arrested in a rash of church arsons and vandalism in rural east Alabama, including scrawling on a Sunday school classroom wall: "Teach children to worship Satan!!" Geoffrey Parquette and James Clark, both 21, were arrested Sunday and entered not guilty pleas Monday. Friends at least since high school, the two from the Smiths community in Lee County were arrested after a stolen cross was found in Parquette's home and his grandmother alerted authorities, according to church members briefed by investigators. "These guys called themselves professed spiritual satanists," said Russell...
  • Nigeria poll mired in controversy

    04/24/2007 9:14:53 PM PDT · by onja · 7 replies · 307+ views
    BBC ^ | Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 01:00 GMT 02:00 UK | Alex Last
    It was no great surprise that Umaru Yar'Adua was declared the winner of Nigeria's presidential election. He is the governing party candidate. The electoral commission said he won by a landslide - leaving the opposition leader, Muhammadu Buhari, with just 18% of the vote. But the election is mired in controversy. Polling stations opened late or not at all, there was a shortage of ballots, and then in many places there was violence and vote-rigging. Turnout was low. The government and the electoral commission say it was a success, but there has been a barrage of criticism. The opposition says...
  • Fires strike 2 churches in eastern N.C.

    01/14/2007 3:53:27 PM PST · by Earthdweller · 14 replies · 502+ views
    Yahoo News ^ | Jan 14, 2007 | MIKE BAKER, Associated Press Writer
    GREENVILLE, N.C. - Police increased their patrols of churches across the city Sunday after fires broke out at two Baptist churches during the night and a break-in was discovered at a third — all within an hour. "We're going to be highly visible at our churches," Greenville Police Chief William Anderson said Sunday. The speed of the first fire at The Memorial Baptist Church led investigators to treat both fires Saturday night as crime scenes, fire chief Mike Burton said. "Most of the accidental causes would not have that rapid of a buildup," Burton said. There were no immediate reports...
  • 10 Church burnings in Phoenix AZ - Anywhere else?

    05/02/2006 2:11:01 PM PDT · by the_Watchman · 18 replies · 763+ views
    KOOL FM Phoenix | May 2, 2006
    It is being reported on KOOL FM and KFYI AM that 10 churches have burned in the Phoenix area since the beginning of the year. The FBI and BATF have been called in to investigate. It is not known whether the blazes are related.
  • Churches to be destroyed in the Arabian Peninsula

    04/03/2006 3:19:15 PM PDT · by Dr.Enzo · 6 replies · 188+ views
    The Saudi fatwa reads as follows: "The Permanent Council for Scholarly Research and Religious Legal Judgment has studied the queries some individuals brought before the Chief Mufti… concerning the topic of the construction of houses of worship for unbelievers in the Arabian Peninsula, such as the construction of churches for Christians and houses of worship for Jews and for other unbelievers and [the question of] the owners of companies or organizations allotting a fixed place for their unbelieving workers to perform the rites of unbelief. ...They agreed that it is obligatory to destroy any church or other heretical house of...
  • Church Arson Case To Go Before Grand Jury

    03/24/2006 5:39:47 PM PST · by Eternal Sea · 11 replies · 347+ views
    nbc13.com ^ | 03-23-06 | NBC13 Staff
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The case of three men accused in a recent string of church arsons is set to go before a grand jury next week. Ben Moseley, Matthew Cloyd and Russell Debusk are being held in the Shelby County Jail on arson charges. They are accused of setting fire to nine churches in western Alabama last month. Next week, a grand jury will hear the facts of the case and decide if the trio should be charged, and if so, with what.
  • For the fun of it: Burning churches turns into a kick for young nihilists

    03/17/2006 12:52:04 PM PST · by Caleb1411 · 38 replies · 974+ views
    WORLD ^ | 3/25/06 | Gene Edward Veith
    This is just so hard to believe," said the state fire marshal, Richard W. Montgomery, after Alabama authorities caught the arsonists who burned nine churches. "My profile on these suspects is shot all to heck and back." The church burners were three bright college students from good families: Benjamin N. Moseley, Russell L. DeBusk Jr. (both 19, from the Methodist-related Birmingham-Southern College), and Matthew Lee Cloyd (age 20, from the University of Alabama, Birmingham). Mr. Moseley and Mr. DeBusk were theater majors, active in campus productions. They got roles in a movie and were making a film themselves. On the...
  • Bond to be considered for Alabama Church Ardon Trio.(More than a joke)

    03/16/2006 7:32:59 AM PST · by oyez · 44 replies · 704+ views
    A judge will decide today whether three suspects in nine church fires will be released on bond with conditions after prosecutors argued Wednesday they are a danger to the community. U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Armstrong Jr. required Russell Lee DeBusk Jr., 19, of Hoover; Benjamin Nathan Moseley, 19, of Grayson Valley; and Matthew Lee Cloyd, 20, of Indian Springs to return to the Shelby County jail. Armstrong said his written ruling will be released this morning. The three suspects, wearing orange jumpsuits and leg irons, remained silent and listened intently Wednesday during a detention hearing. Their defense lawyers urged Armstrong...
  • Thoughts: Helping the Burned-Out Churches

    03/08/2006 10:53:32 AM PST · by Crackingham · 7 replies · 319+ views
    The Alabama Baptist ^ | 3/8/6 | Dr. Bob Terry
    Speculation is still rampant about the perpetrators and the causes of the recent rash of church burnings in our state. Ten churches torched can hardly be accidental. The fires are the apparent work of arsonists. What they hope to accomplish by their twisted and foul deeds, only the arsonists know at this time. One thing the fires made evident, however, is the ability of Alabama Baptists to respond to emergencies, even the burning of church buildings. The first five fires burned during the early morning hours of Feb. 3. Within a week, Alabama Baptists were providing assistance. Rehobeth Baptist Church,...
  • 10th Alabama church fire ruled arson, two men sought

    02/12/2006 10:31:19 AM PST · by MineralMan · 150 replies · 3,078+ views
    Macon Telegraph ^ | 2/12/06 | Jay Reeves
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A federal investigator said Sunday that two white men in their 20s or 30s are believed to be responsible for a rash of rural Alabama church fires in recent days, with a 10th church heavily damaged by flames Saturday. Eric Kehn, a spokesman for the federal Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agency, said the fire at Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church in Lamar County broke out Saturday afternoon and no determination had been made on whether it was arson. He said the two white men are being sought for arsons that destroyed or damaged five rural Bibb County...
  • 10th Alabama church burns

    02/12/2006 3:48:20 AM PST · by Fzob · 25 replies · 517+ views
    CNN ^ | February 11, 2006 | CNN
    (CNN) -- Another Baptist church in Alabama was heavily damaged by fire Saturday night, becoming the 10th house of worship burned in recent weeks, police said. .... A Lamar County Sheriff's Department dispatcher said police are still trying to determine what caused the fire at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church in northwest Alabama. .... "When we got there, it obviously was in the beginning stages of the fire," Johnson said. "It was coming from the middle of the church. Then the fire began to rage. Then it engulfed the whole church." ... Investigators have been trying to determine the causes...
  • 10th Alabama church in flames

    02/11/2006 6:09:24 PM PST · by Indy Pendance · 172 replies · 3,094+ views
    CNN ^ | 2-11-06
    (CNN) -- Another Baptist church in Alabama was in flames Saturday night, becoming the 10th house of worship burned in recent weeks, police said. Firefighters from several cities were helping to fight the blaze Saturday evening in Beaverton, a town of 200 people about 90 miles northwest of Birmingham A Lamar County Sheriff's Department dispatcher said police are still trying to determine what caused the fire at the Beaverton Freewill Baptist Church in northwest Alabama. Investigators have been trying to determine the causes and whether the rural church fires are linked. (Watch as church burnings are made a priority --...
  • Amid the ashes Alabama Baptists assist burned churches in Bibb County

    02/09/2006 1:01:35 PM PST · by Sweetjustusnow · 6 replies · 276+ views
    Alabama Baptist ^ | Thursday, February 09, 2006 | Alabama Baptist
    Within hours of church fires breaking out across Bibb County and into Chilton County, Alabama Baptists were scurrying around to offer assistance to four Bibb Baptist Association churches. Calls poured in from around the state as Steve Patrick, director of missions for Bibb Association, attempted to get a handle on what had just happened. During the night between Feb. 2 and 3, six churches were torched in Bibb and Chilton counties.
  • What's behind church burnings? (Shades of Bill Clinton's Arkansas)

    02/07/2006 6:14:03 PM PST · by Chi-townChief · 17 replies · 784+ views
    The Christian Science Monitor ^ | February 08, 2006 edition | Patrik Jonsson
    White churches are the most frequent targets - and crime is often the motive. ATLANTA - Three torched churches were discovered in Alabama Tuesday - the latest in a string of suspected arsons that damaged five churches in Bibb County. Investigators have not discovered any apparent motives. Four of the five churches in Bibb County - three of which burned to the ground - were white Baptist congregations. The other was black. Nationally, such patterns are not unusual. Most arson targets are white congregations, whereas mosques and synagogues get hit in much smaller numbers. In a country with more than...
  • Hope & optimism spring from ashes of burned Alabama churches

    02/07/2006 12:55:53 PM PST · by DeaconNoGood · 2 replies · 213+ views
    BPNews.net ^ | 2/6/06 | Doug Rogers
    CENTREVILLE, Ala. (BP)--A little more than a day after a series of fires gutted three Baptist churches and damaged two others in Bibb County, Ala., the smell of burning embers still was in the air. Hope and optimism were in the air as well, which didn’t surprise Southern Baptist Convention President Bobby Welch as he paid a visit to the area Feb. 4. “The joy that we have in all of this is that we know how this is going to end,” Welch said as he surveyed the charred remains of Rehobeth Baptist Church. “All these churches are going to...
  • Burned Churches Hold Sunday Services

    02/06/2006 6:35:17 AM PST · by commish · 12 replies · 657+ views
    WSFA-TV Montgomery, AL ^ | Feb 5, 2006 | Theo Travers
    Sunday marked the beginning of a long journey for church members in Bibb county -- both physical and spiritual. Fires broke out at five churches in the area Friday morning. Three of the buildings were destroyed. Investigators suspect arson, but no arrests have been made. Now, through prayer, the congregations are proving that a church is not the building, but the people. All five churches went ahead with Sunday morning services. The congregations might now be considered religious refugees. They are banished from their church homes by an invisible enemy, but not defeated. "It is a crisis," said Pastor James...
  • French Churches Burn and the Left and the MSM Ignore It

    11/18/2005 12:38:06 PM PST · by anymouse · 8 replies · 564+ views
    Astute Blogger ^ | Thursday, November 17, 2005
    One dozen Christian churches were defiled, ransacked and/or torched by rioters in France during the intifada. (HAT TIP: NO PASARAN.) That's one every other day over the last two weeks. Quite a clip. And during the same period, not a single mosque was torched by the rioters, (whose Muslim-ness has nothing to do with the riots - according to the MSM. And nothing about these targeted attacks against churches has appeared in the MSM, either). In the old days, when the KKK - (who were like today's islamofascists: a group committed to tyranny and willing to use terror to impose...
  • Thousands of Muslims burn Christian churches, convents, schools and homes in Pakistan

    11/13/2005 2:19:17 PM PST · by NYer · 107 replies · 2,539+ views
    Asia News ^ | November 13, 2005 | Qaiser Felix
    The Justice and Peace Commission accuses the police of “criminal negligence” because they did not intervene, and also criticizes ministers and politicians for not scrapping the blasphemy law. Lahore (AsiaNews) – Three churches, a nuns‘ convent, two Catholic schools, the houses of a Protestant pastor and of a parish priest, a girls’ hostel, some Christian homes, were first vandalized and then set on fire by an angry crowd of around 2,000 people in the village of Sangla Hill, Nankana district in Punjab. At least 450 Christian families fled from the village and they have not yet returned for fear of...
  • Church Burglar Beaten to Death

    A peaceful place for prayer turned into a deadly scene early Thursday morning. Police said Donald Middleton, 46, was beaten to death in the parking lot of Progressive Missionary Baptist Church. Lillie Bell has been Middleton's neighbor for 35 years. "When I heard what was going on," she says," it was a big shock to me that someone would run a young man down like that and take his life." Police said a group of men across the street saw Middleton trying to break into the church. The Rev. Arthur Sutton said the men tried to stop Middleton, but went...
  • On October 10, 1996, 25 churches in East Java were vandalized and burned down (Muslims)

    11/21/2004 9:02:33 AM PST · by miltonim · 5 replies · 489+ views
    www.fica.org ^ | October 10, 1996
    On October 10, 1996, 25 churches in several towns in East Java were vandalized and burned down Unlike the previous incident on June 9, 1996, these incidents occurred in several towns surrounding the township of Situbondo where the attack first started. They are Situbondo, Besuki, Penarukan, Asembagus/Banyuputih, Wonorejo, and Ranurejo. This attack came only months after the authority promised to find the perpetrators in the last incident and are still without significant progress. [14]GKJW Induk Ranurejo Jawi Wetan Christian Church in Ranurejo Location: Ranurejo, East Java [15]Gereja Kristus Tuhan Christ the Lord Church Location: Ranurejo, East Java [16]Gereja Sidang Jemaat...
  • Presbyterian Church advises members to take safety precautions

    11/14/2004 8:36:26 AM PST · by AlfAlpha · 20 replies · 1,407+ views
    Associated Press ^ | 11/13/2004 | Associated Press
    The Presbyterian Church has stepped up security at its headquarters and advised its churches to be on alert after receiving a letter threatening arson attacks on its churches because of its policies in the Middle East. The handwritten letter was received Wednesday at the church's Louisville headquarters, Jerry L. Van Marter, director of the Presbyterian news service, said Saturday. It had no return address, but it was postmarked from Queens, NY, Van Marter said. The letter threatened to set churches on fire while people were inside in retaliation for "anti-Israel and anti-Jewish attitudes," Van Marter said.
  • The Chairman's Action Report on Kosovo's destruction of Churches

    09/06/2004 1:15:13 AM PDT · by Nennsy · 19 replies · 647+ views
    Religious Freedom Coalition ^ | Aug 18th 2004 | William J. Murray
    August 18, 2004 I have just returned to the United States from one of the most physically and emotionally draining missions I have ever been on in mylife. During the mission trip I moderated a panel on anti-Semitism in Brussels, Belgium and examined churches desecrated and destroyed in Kosovo. The extremes of my journey took me from a European Hotel near the seat of government of the European Union, to being escorted by heavily armed special Ukrainian police units to a burned down monastery where we had a face-off with French troops who would not let us enter. While the...
  • Shocking Hate Internet Site Appears to Advocate Burning Churches

    09/01/2004 1:09:06 PM PDT · by Kaslin · 51 replies · 1,894+ views
    Talon News ^ | September 1, 2004 | Jeremy Reynalds
    ALBUQUERQUE, NM (Talon News) -- A shocking web site apparently based in McLean, Virginia appears to advocate the burning down of churches. The web site, www.churcharson.com, says that burning churches is "one way people get involved with activism to end the abusive practices of Judeo-Christian religions (and nations, such as Israel)." Apparently voicing his thoughts on a burning church, the writer says, "As it burned and the smell of dusty planks and charring parchment filled the air over the meadow, and the heat and the like piqued our senses incongruous in the swelling boundless darkness, our faces remained calm but...
  • Cyprus Church Bombed Ahead of Religious Ceremony (in Turkish-held Cyprus)

    08/27/2004 12:22:12 PM PDT · by Destro · 9 replies · 309+ views
    voanews.com ^ | 27 Aug 2004, 13:41 UTC | VOA News
    Cyprus Church Bombed Ahead of Religious Ceremony VOA News 27 Aug 2004, 13:41 UTC An early Friday morning bomb blast outside a Greek Orthodox church in a Turkish-held area of Cyprus has caused some damage but no injuries. The explosion at the Saint Mamas church in Morphou - 30 kilometers west of Nicosia - damaged the roof, windows and the main church entrance. Officials say anti-Greek slogans were also scribbled on the walls. The church is the planned site of a controversial religious service next week. Greek Cypriots say they still plan to hold the liturgy at the church Wednesday...
  • Bomb Damages Church in Northern Cyprus

    08/27/2004 9:44:55 AM PDT · by knighthawk · 2 replies · 500+ views
    AP Wire | August 27 2004 | ALEX EFTY/AP
    NICOSIA, Cyprus - A bomb exploded before dawn in a Greek Orthodox church in Turkish-occupied north Cyprus on Friday, causing damage but no injuries, authorities said. The attack followed media reports that Turkish Cypriot extremist groups had vowed to try to prevent services planned next week at the Saint Mamas church to celebrate its namesake's saint's day. Mehmet Ali Talat, the premier of the breakaway Turkish Cypriot state, said authorities would press forward with the first service at the church in decades, planned as a gesture of reconciliation between ethnic Turks and Greeks. Hundreds of Greek Cypriots who fled Morphou,...
  • U.S. religious leaders astounded by violence against Christian heritage in Kosovo and Metohija

    08/13/2004 3:10:28 PM PDT · by Karadjordje · 22 replies · 1,230+ views
    http://news.suc.org/bydate/2004/August_12/29.html ^ | 12.08.2004 | http://news.suc.org/bydate/2004/August_12/29.html
    "Eminent U.S. religious leaders astounded by violence against Christian heritage in Kosovo and MetohijaERP KIM Info ServiceGracanica, August 12, 2004Twelve members of a delegation of U.S. religious leaders headed by Joseph K. Grieboski, the chairman of the Institute on Religion and Public Policy arrive in the monastery of Gracanica on Wednesday evening at about 8:00 p.m. accompanied by Mr. Damjan Krnjevic-Miskovic, the special advisor on Kosovo and Metohija to Serbian president Boris Tadic, and Rev. Fr. Irinej Dobrijevic, consultant to the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church. They were welcomed in front of the church at Gracanica...
  • WORLD COMMUNITY SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO DESTRUCTION OF CHURCHES IN KOSOVO

    08/09/2004 10:53:46 AM PDT · by joan · 19 replies · 469+ views
    RIA novosti ^ | August 9, 2004
    MOSCOW, August 9 (RIA Novosti) - The world community should pay attention to the destruction of unique shrines and cultural monuments in Kosovo, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexis II told Serbian journalists on Monday. "Unique churches of the 13th-14th centuries on the UNESCO list are being destroyed in Kosovo and Metohija and nobody tries to stop it," the Patriarch said. To restore the unique half-destroyed monuments we need their security guarantees," he stressed. "We have forwarded relevant addresses to the UN and often made statements to foreign media but the problem is slurred over. Society acts according to...
  • Zamfara Government Orders Demolition of All Churches (Nigeria Implements Sha'aria)

    04/30/2004 12:50:37 PM PDT · by Alouette · 17 replies · 253+ views
    OSAC ^ | Apr. 30, 2004
    Governor Ahmed Sani of Zamfara State, has ordered the demolition of all churches in the state, as he launched the second phase of his Sharia project yesterday. Speaking at the launch in Gusau, the state capital, Governor Sani disclosed that time was ripe for full implementation of the programme as enshrined in the Holy Quran. He added that his government would soon embark on demolition of all places of worship of unbelievers in the state, in line with Islamic injunction to fight them wherever they are found. The governor also disclosed that a law to compel employers of labor in...
  • Destruction of Serbian Orthodox churches in Djakovica during the pogrom (17-19 March 2004)kosovo

    04/29/2004 8:41:35 PM PDT · by miltonim · 5 replies · 372+ views
    Destruction of Serbian Orthodox churches in Djakovicaduring the March pogrom (17-19 March 2004)-The first photo (01) shows the burned parish home in Istok. -Photos (02-06) showthe Serbian Orthodox cemetery church and cemetery nearDjakovica, at Piskote. The church of St. Lazrus (02) which was was only looted nowis completely destroyed with only its floor remaining. Several tombs were openedand the bones of the deceased scattered.-Photos (07-09) show the completely removed ruins of the Cathedral of the HolyTrinity which was destroyed by ethnic Albanians in June 1999. -The following photos (10-14) show the location on which the 19th c. church of...
  • Burning of St. Sava's church, March 17 2004 (Kosovo)

    04/28/2004 1:41:51 AM PDT · by miltonim · 7 replies · 516+ views
    Burning of St. Sava's church, March 17Burning of St. Sava church in South Mitrovica. Kosovo Albanian mob arrives, KFOR soldiers don't manage to prevent their entrance to the churchyard. The mob breaks in the church and sets it on fire, then they turn towards the parish home and set it on fire too. KFOR soldiers, with their armored vehicles remain helpless. 01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG 09.JPG 10.JPG 11.JPG 12.JPG 13.JPG 14.JPG 15.JPG 16.JPG
  • Destruction of Serbian Orthodox church in Podujevo (17-19 March 2004)

    04/28/2004 12:48:10 AM PDT · by miltonim · 8 replies · 523+ views
    http://www.kosovo.com ^ | MARCH 2004 | ERP KIM INFO SERVICE
    Destruction of Serbian Orthodox church in Podujevo(17-19 March 2004)The following photos show the burned church of St. Andreas in Podujevo which was looted in 1999. However the church structure remained intact and the church remained under protection of KFOR. During the March pogrom Albanianmob led by their extremists burned the church and blew up by explosives thesanctuary on the eastern part of the church. After the attack Kosovo Albaniansattacked the nearby Serbian cemetery and destroyed it completely. An article on this terrible vandalism was published in Praha News:  01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG Czechs hold line...
  • Saving Serbian church bells

    04/12/2004 10:39:26 AM PDT · by joan · 2 replies · 110+ views
    ERP KIM Info Service ^ | April 12, 2004
    ERP KIM Info Service Gracanica, April 8, 2004 On Wednesday, April 7, soldiers from the combined Czech and Slovak KFOR contingent returned a church bell stolen by Albanians from Podujevo after the torching and destruction of the church of the Holy Prophet Elijah on March 17 to the monastery of Gracanica. The members of the Czech-Slovak battalion managed to find the bell in the possession of an Albanian family in Podujevo, and have turned over the entire case to UNMIK police for further consideration. They confiscated the church bell from the Albanians and transferred it to their base. Albanian representatives...
  • Four 17-Year-Old Boys Arrested for Church Fires in KY {Lawyer Blames Internet Access}

    04/09/2004 9:02:23 AM PDT · by Theodore R. · 20 replies · 457+ views
    Lexington, KY, Herald-Leader ^ | 04-09-03 | Mueller, Lee
    Four boys arrested for church fires Johnson County teens are charged with arson By Lee Mueller EASTERN KENTUCKY BUREAU PAINTSVILLE - State and federal authorities arrested four Johnson County high school students late Wednesday night and charged them with arson in connection with the burning of three churches in February and March. The students, all 17-year-old boys, appeared in Johnson County juvenile court yesterday and were taken by the sheriff's department to a juvenile detention center in Breathitt County. All were charged with second-degree arson in connection with the fires, and criminal mischief and third-degree burglary in connection with the...
  • Nigeria: Tension in Kaduna As Irate Muslims Burn Churches, Police Station

    04/07/2004 11:26:50 PM PDT · by ambrose · 24 replies · 255+ views
    Nigeria: Tension in Kaduna As Irate Muslims Burn Churches, Police Station UN Integrated Regional Information Networks NEWS April 6, 2004 Posted to the web April 6, 2004 Kano Tension has gripped the volatile northern Nigerian Kaduna State after irate Muslims razed several churches and a police station in a remote town, alleging that a Christian youth had desecrated the Koran, residents and police officials said on Tuesday. Trouble broke out last Saturday in the town of Makarfi, 150 km north of the state capital Kaduna, when a mentally disturbed Christian youth whose family came from the Christian southeast Nigeria was...
  • Muslims Riot and Burn Down Churches and Jail (Nigeria)

    04/07/2004 3:31:45 AM PDT · by miltonim · 9 replies · 161+ views
    International Christian Concern ^ | 4/6/04 | Barnabas Fund
    Muslims in Makarfi town, Kaduna State, have burnt down nine churches and a police station, citing a young Christian's desecration of the Qur'an as the excuse. On April 3rd a young Christian fled for his life across the town of Makarfi to the police station, where he took refuge from an angry mob of Muslims. The mob issued a demand for his release, presumably so they could kill him, but the police refused. They therefore set fire to the police station and went on to torch nine churches (of at least three different denominations) and two houses of pastors. Shops...
  • Albanian Muslims Target Christian Churches, Cemeteries and Monasteries (Kosovo March 2004)

    04/07/2004 3:03:18 AM PDT · by miltonim · 12 replies · 142+ views
    International Christian Concern ^ | 4/6/04 | Barnabas Fund
    Violence being perpetrated by aggrieved Albanians is centering on Christian churches, cemeteries and monasteries. Thirty-one people have been killed and more than 40 religious sites, mostly churches, have been destroyed in large-scale violence which erupted once again in Kosovo on March 17th. The authorities in Kosovo, largely Albanian Muslim, have taken very little action against the perpetrators of the violence. The immediate cause of this latest violence was reported to be the drowning of two Albanian boys. However it appears that the hostility did not flare up spontaneously, and had in fact been well planned. Neither is it in fact...
  • Kentucky Officials Investigating Two Weekend Church Fires as Possible Arson

    03/28/2004 12:40:20 PM PST · by BenLurkin · 3 replies · 90+ views
    Associated Press ^ | Mar 28, 2004 | Associated Press
    PAINTSVILLE, Ky. (AP) - Weekend fires that damaged two eastern Kentucky churches were being investigated as possible arson, authorities said Sunday. One fire was reported late Saturday at Sugar Grove Baptist Church, which was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived, police said. About an hour later, a fire was reported 20 miles away at New Bethel Freewill Baptist Church. "The heat was so intense it melted the microphones off the stands," said the Rev. Joe Scott, a minister at New Bethel. The fires were being investigated by state and federal officials, State Police dispatcher Brian White said in a...
  • Centuries of Christian Culture Vanish in Kosovo City

    03/23/2004 11:42:42 PM PST · by Destro · 42 replies · 367+ views
    timesdaily.com ^ | Wednesday, March 24, 2004 | DANICA KIRKA
    Centuries of Culture Vanish in Kosovo City By DANICA KIRKA Associated Press Writer Serb Orthodox bishop Atanasije Jevtic,left, next to an unidentified prelate, enters the 14th-century Holy Virgin of Ljevis Cathedral in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren, Monday, March 22, 2004. Orthodox Christian Serbs and symbols of their culture and history were targetted throughout Kosovo in violence last week. (AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito) Bishop Atanasije Jevtic dusted ashes away from the base of the fresco in the 14th-century cathedral gutted during recent mob violence in Kosovo. He then softly placed two fingers on the image of Virgin Mary in...
  • Barbarianism in Prizren - urinating on demolished Orthodox church

    03/23/2004 6:58:12 AM PST · by joan · 60 replies · 484+ views
    Yahoo! ^ | March 22, 2004
    An Ethnic Albanian youth uses his mobile telephone to take a picture of his friend taking a leak in the St. George church in the southern Kosovo town of Prizren, Monday, March 22, 2004. The church was set on fire and heavily damaged during an outbreak of Albanian violence in Kosovo.
  • LIST OF CHURCHES DESTROYED IN KOSOVO BY ALBANIANS IN LAST THREE DAYS

    03/21/2004 4:13:02 AM PST · by starys · 27 replies · 851+ views
    The following is the list of 28 Serbian churches and monasteries that Albanians have burned and destroyed on Kosovo between March 17 and March 19, 2004. Albanian's democracy and multiculturisam at the work ..... 1. Orthodox Cathedral of the Most Holy Mother of God of Ljevis, 14th century (Prizren) 2. Church of Holy Salvation, 14th century (Prizren) 3. Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Great Martyr George, 20th century (Prizren) 4. Holy Archangels Monastery, 14th century (Prizren) 5. Church of St. George Runovic, 15th century (Prizren, courtyard of the Episcopate) 6. Church of St. John the Fore-runner and Baptist (Pec) with...
  • List of churches Albanians destroyed in Kosovo, March 17 through 19

    03/20/2004 3:54:10 PM PST · by ma bell · 68 replies · 567+ views
    Below is a list of churches and church buildings for which the Serbian Orthodox Church has received information that they were destroyed by Albanians:   1. Orthodox Cathedral of the Most Holy Mother of God of Ljevis, 14th century (Prizren) 2. Church of Holy Salvation, 14th century (Prizren)  3. Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Great Martyr George, 20th century (Prizren)  4. Holy Archangels Monastery, 14th century (Prizren) 5. Church of St. George Runovic, 15th century (Prizren, courtyard of the Episcopate) 6. Church of St. John the Fore-runner and Baptist (Pec) with parish home 7. Church of the Entry of the Most Holy Mother of God into...