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14th November 2008 Refugee crisis strikes Congo - The Democratic Republic of Congo, a country the size of Western Europe located at the very heart of Africa, has become the backdrop for one of the worst refugee crises in years. As rebel groups under renegade General Laurent Nkunda advance towards Goma in eastern Congo, tales of civilian suffering give a horrific insight into the chaos that results from the continuing clashes between government troops and Nkunda’s rebels: young men killed, women raped by retreating government troops, children kidnapped and forcibly recruited as child soldiers to fight a war that is not their own, soldiers and militias pillaging and looting, and hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing for their lives. The conflict between Nkunda and the Congolese government dates back to the time of the Rwandan genocide, when hundreds of thousands of Tutsi and moderate Hutu were murdered by radical Hutu. In 1994 a remnant of those responsible for the genocide fled into what was then Zaire, organised themselves into the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) and continued to commit crimes, against Congolese Tutsi among others. Nkunda, a Tutsi, sees the Congolese government as well as the United Nations (UN) troops as responsible for the failure to disarm and bring to justice the “genocidaires”. - Read the full article
15th October 2008 India: Orissa - violence against Christians continues unabated - To download a Windows Media copy of this presentation for use in your church or study group right click and choose ‘save as’ here. - Read the full article
13th October 2008 Iraqi Christians flee Mosul as Islamic extremists launch campaign against them: "We left everything behind us. We took only our souls." - Thousands of Iraqi Christians have fled the city of Mosul in northern Iraq over the past week after Sunni Muslim extremists launched a deadly campaign to remove the Christian community from the city. “We left everything behind us. We took only our souls,” said Ni’ma Noail (50), a civil servant who had to abandon his home in Mosul and is now living in a church. At least seven Christians were murdered between 4 and 8 October, killed execution-style by gunmen. Other estimates suggest the number of Christians killed is as high as 25 or even 40. Christian houses have been blown up, and at least 744 Christian families (approximately 3,750 people) have left their homes to find refuge with relatives or in churches and Christian centres in seven towns and villages to the north and east of Mosul. Some are sleeping in their cars. They are in desperate need of food, clothes, bedding, items for personal hygiene and other basic necessities. - Read the full article
7th October 2008 Discriminatory legislation threatens to exacerbate difficulties of Christians in Iraq as well as the Maldives and Iran - Discriminatory legislation threatens to exacerbate difficulties of Christians in Iraq as well as the Maldives and Iran Amidst the growing concern for the rights of Muslims in the West, in particular the implementation of shari‘a, what is little known is the growing legal discrimination against Christians in the Muslim world. Whereas in the West Islam is given full freedom to practise its faith and to engage in mission, in the Muslim world the general trend is towards restricting the rights of Christians. - Read the full article
2nd October 2008 Iranian Parliament provisionally approves death penalty for leaving Islam - The Iranian Parliament has given provisional approval, by a majority of 196 to seven, to a bill that mandates the death penalty for apostasy from Islam. Until now Iranian judges could impose the death penalty in such cases only on the basis of Islamic law and fatwas, not on the basis of Iranian law. The bill prescribes a mandatory death sentence for any male Muslim who converts from Islam to another religion, and lifelong imprisonment for female converts from Islam. It also gives the Iranian secular courts authority to convict Iranians living outside the country of crimes relating to Iranian national security. It seems likely that this could be used against the many Iranian Christians who live outside Iran but are involved in evangelism within it. Apostasy from Islam is viewed by most Muslims as equivalent to treason. - Read the full article
25th September 2008 Indonesia - Help Needed to Restore Destroyed Christian Village - A home flattened in the violence We reported in May on the destruction of Horale, a mainly Christian village in a remote area of Maluku province in Indonesia. It is home to 175 families. On the night of 2 May a mob from a predominantly Muslim village nearby attacked Horale, wounding 56 Christians and brutally killing four, including an 84-year-old man and a six-year-old girl. The local school, three churches and 120 houses were burnt down and crops, fishing boats and motor-cycles destroyed. The villagers fled to the jungle to hide from the attackers. - Read the full article
12th September 2008 VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS IN ORISSA THREATENS TO SPREAD THROUGH INDIA - Read this article in German - Read the full article
10th September 2008 HAMAS LEADER'S SON ANNOUNCES CONVERSION TO CHRISTIANITY - The son of a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank has left Islam and become a Christian. Masab Hassan Yousef, now called Joseph, has told his story in a number of recent interviews. - Read the full article
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