Coptic Solidarity Due to the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians experience in trying to build—or even repair—churches in their homeland, some end up meeting in Coptic homes to worship (and often are attacked for it), while others worship out in the open. This was the case for the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City. For 44 years they have been trying to build a … [Read more...]
Muslims Burn Church, Kill Pastor’s Daughter, in Search of Apostate in Nigeria
A Muslim mob set fire to a church in a Christian village in Nigeria’s northern Kano State on April 1. Muslims were searching for a young man who had renounced Islam and re-converted to Christianity; they were looking to kill him. They also attacked Christian villagers with machetes and torched the home of a pastor, killing one of his daughters. The young man, Yahaya Joshua, … [Read more...]
Muslims Gang-Rape Daughter of Pastor for Holding Christian Worship Services
Five Muslim men gang-raped and beat the teenage daughter of a Christian pastor in Uganda. This was done in "retaliation" to the pastor's refusal to stop Christian worship services in a Muslim-majority region. The girl (name withheld for security reasons) was approaching the New Hope Church building, where her father serves as pastor, around 7:30 p.m. on March 28 when she … [Read more...]
Muslims Prevent Christians from Praying in Coptic Home
Coptic Solidarity It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be built in al-Our to … [Read more...]
Easter under Islam, Churches under Attack
FrontPage Magazine As millions of Christians around the world were celebrating Easter Sunday, the Christians of the Muslim world were again under attack. The April 2 Islamic jihad attack on a Kenyan school—where the Islamic murderers made sure to slaughter only Christian students, sparing fellow Muslims—was only the most spectacular attack. On Easter Sunday itself, as … [Read more...]