Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Translations of this item: Russian While many people are regularly persecuted by Islam's blasphemy law, one particular case made August headlines: a 14-year-old Christian girl in Pakistan, Rimsha Masih, was arrested, accused of burning pages of a Quran. Rioting Muslims destroyed Christian homes and churches, tore … [Read more...]
Egypt’s Christians: Distraught and Displaced
Last week Reuters reported that "Most Christians living near Egypt's border with Israel [in the town of Rafah in Sinai] are fleeing their homes after Islamist militants made death threats and gunmen attacked a Coptic-owned shop." Photos of desecrated churches and Christian property show Arabic graffiti saying things like "don't come back" and "Islam is the truth." All … [Read more...]
Egyptian Evangelical Church Attacked with Stones and Gas Bombs
by Raymond Ibrahim • Sep 28, 2012 at 4:57 pm Cross-posted from Jihad Watch Coptic woman, sitting in Kasr El-Dobara, ponders. According to Al Masry Al Youm, Kasr El-Dobara, the largest evangelical church in the Middle East, located in Egypt, was recently besieged by "unknown people" hurling "stones and gas bombs. " The first gas bomb thrown at the church … [Read more...]
The Tip of the Iceberg of Christian Persecution
Published in Investigative Project on Terrorism Two Christians living in the Islamic world under arrest and awaiting execution—the one charged with apostasy, the other with blasphemy—were just released. According to a September 8 report on CNN, "A Christian pastor sentenced to death in Iran for apostasy was reunited with his family Saturday after a trial court acquitted … [Read more...]
The Collective Punishment of Egypt’s Christian Copts
Published in Coptic Solidarity Last month saw Egypt's latest large-scale "collective punishment" of Christian Copts. It started when a Christian launderer accidently burned the shirt of a Muslim customer, which led to a brawl between the two Egyptians (first reported here). The next day "the Muslim, with approximately 20 of his followers, went to the Christian's home to attack … [Read more...]