Gatestone Institute All throughout February, Copts, the largest Christian minority in the Middle East, were slaughtered. Around mid-February, the Islamic State released a video depicting 21 Coptic Christians being decapitated. The executions took place in Libya, another nation along with Syria and Iraq where the Islamic State has carved a niche for itself. While holding … [Read more...]
Christians Are ‘Prisoners of Conscience’ in Uzbekistan
Reports appearing in April told of the harassing, jailing and fining of several Christians in Uzbekistan for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. One of the prisoners of conscience—Council of Churches Baptist Doniyor Akhmedov—was fined more than three years' official minimum wage after his release from 15 days in jail. Other prisoners of conscience to be … [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...]
Ethiopia: Christians Imprisoned for Distributing Bibles, Official Slaps Christian with Bible
Gemechu Jorgo and Sheikh Amin -- two men who were distributing Bibles in Ethiopia’s Melka Belo region -- were arrested on March 10 and 13, respectively. Islamic law bans the advertisement and dissemination of non-Muslim scriptures -- that is, Christian evangelism. While they were imprisoned, both men endured harassment and physical abuse by authorities. At one point, Jorgo … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim Reviews Beth Baron’s The Orphan Scandal: Christian Missionaries and the Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Middle East Quarterly [adsenseyu1] In 1933, Turkiya Hassan, an orphaned Egyptian, Muslim girl, was beaten by a matron at a Swedish missionary school. School authorities later contended that the "rude and aggressive" 15-year-old was ordered "into a room for private chastisement" at which time the girl "showed fight and seized the cane" from the matron who soon "regained … [Read more...]