On June 25, 12 Christian girls were detained due to their “scandalous outfits" by the Public Order Police as they left the Baptist church in El Izba, Khartoum. The young women, wearing trousers and skirts, were transferred to a police station; two of them were acquitted on Friday, after the agents of the Public Order Police reconsidered their opinion about their … [Read more...]
Muslim Persecution of Christians, May 2014
Published by the Gatestone Institute The deplorable state of religious freedom in the Islamic world came to the fore in May when news of the arrest, imprisonment, and death sentencing of a pregnant Christian wife and mother on the accusation that she had left Islam for Christianity reached the world. On May 15, Meriam Ibrahim of Sudan was sentenced to flogging followed by … [Read more...]
Extremism Fuels Abuse of Christians in Mideast
Originally published by CNN The world heard of the plight of a Sudanese Christian wife and mother who, while eight months pregnant, was arrested and sentenced to public flogging followed by execution. Her crime? An Islamic court in Khartoum found her guilty of apostasy, that is, leaving Islam and converting to Christianity. It's a crime punishable by death, according to some … [Read more...]
Raymond Ibrahim on CBN News: Christian Woman Facing Execution ‘Tip of Iceberg’
On June 6, Raymond Ibrahim appeared on CBN News discussing the plight of Sudan's Meriam Ibrahim -- a wife and mother on death row for refusing to renounce Christianity and embrace Islam. … [Read more...]
Sudan Mother’s Case ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ on Islamic Persecution
CBN News Slovak Evidence has again emerged indicting that if Western mainstream media actually reported more on the sufferings of Christians throughout the Islamic world, their lot would likely improve. Meriam Ibrahim, a woman who is imprisoned in Sudan and sentenced to death on the charge that she apostatized from Islam and converted to Christianity—and who recently gave … [Read more...]