Suicide attack on pre-Christmas church service killed 9 worshipers in Pakistan Gatestone Institute Christian Carnage and Attacked Churches in Egypt As a reflection of the enmity that Christmas provokes in the Islamic world, “Egypt's interior ministry … said it would be allocating 230,000 security personnel to secure the country’s Christmas celebrations,” Ahram reported, “to … [Read more...]
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“Islam Was a Yoke to My Heart”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2017
Gatestone Institute Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches Germany: According to a November 11 report in The European, approximately 200 churches have been attacked and desecrated in the Alps and Bavarian regions alone. Large summit crosses atop mountains have also been felled and destroyed by axes and saws. “Young Islamists” are believed to be behind the widespread … [Read more...]
“May Allah Destroy Your Houses and Burn You All!” Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2017
Gatestone Institute In one of the most brazen attacks on Egypt’s Christians, a Muslim man slaughtered a Christian priest in broad daylight. Security camera footage (viewable here) captured a man with a large butcher knife chasing and stabbing Fr. Samaan Shehata—including in the head, neck, and torso—in the streets of Cairo on October 12. According to eyewitnesses “the … [Read more...]
Death to “Filthy, Demonic” Christians: Muslim Persecution of Churches, September 2017
Gatestone Institute Muslim Slaughter of Christians Pakistan: Sharoon, a Christian boy who achieved academic excellence despite years of entrenched discrimination and bullying—and whose poverty-stricken parents had worked hard to put him in MC Model Boys Government High School—was beaten to death by Muslim pupils. On his first day at the school, the teacher slapped him … [Read more...]
“Clean Our Excrement Every Day or Die”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2017
Gatestone Institute A document drafted by members of the global Christian community convening at the 3rd International Christian Forum held in Moscow, detailed how over the past 10 years the Middle East's Christian population has shrunk by 80 percent and warned that unless current trends are reversed Christianity “will vanish” from its ancient homelands in a few years’ … [Read more...]
Christians ‘Slaughtered Like Chicken’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2017
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Luc Ravel, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Strasbourg “went against the grain of Church leaders in France who have largely remained politically correct,” says a report, because he criticized “the demographic shift in France, saying Muslims are having far more children than native French and slammed the widespread ‘promotion’ … [Read more...]
Slaughtered Christians “A Viable Target”? Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2017
The Gatestone Institute The uptick in often lethal persecution of Christians in Muslim regions has caused many Christian leaders to appeal for aid. Canon Andrew White, the prominent minister known as the "Vicar of Baghdad" told Fox News in March, "If there is anything I can tell Americans it is that your fellow brothers and sisters are suffering, they are desperate for … [Read more...]
‘Spit on the Cross or Die!’ Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2017
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Tragic stories of Christian experiences under the Islamic State continued to emerge throughout the month of January. A Christian doctor who forfeited the chance to escape his Syrian village after ISIS had captured it because he wanted to stay and help the sick and needy, both Christian and Muslim, was kidnapped by the Muslim … [Read more...]
Death and Destruction for Christmas: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2016
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute As in previous years, the month of Christmas saw an uptick in Islamic attacks on Christians—much of it in the context of targeting Christmas related worship and celebrations. The one to claim the most lives occurred in Egypt. There, on Sunday, December 11, an Islamic suicide bomber entered the St. Peter Cathedral in Cairo … [Read more...]
A New Genocide for Egypt’s Christians?
FrontPage Magazine Yet another murderous wave is taking Egypt’s Coptic Christian minority by storm, leading to another exodus from their homes. Last week in al-Arish, Sinai, Islamic State affiliates killed a 65-year-old Christian man by shooting him in the head; they then abducted and tortured his 45-year-old son before burning him alive and dumping his charred remains … [Read more...]