Posts Tagged ‘ Christian ’

Christians in Morocco Fear Fatwa Portends Harsher Treatment

May 7th, 2013 | By
moraccoflagtower

A Moroccan fatwa calling for the execution of those who leave Islam has left many Christian converts in turmoil.

There is still much debate over how the fatwa, which only recently came to light after the government’s top authority on Islam issued it last year, could change laws in Morocco. But a Moroccan Christian convert active in the house church movement said many former Muslims who are now Christians fear for their lives.

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Syrian Christians Told Convert, Leave, or Die

Apr 26th, 2013 | By
Christian Nina Oshana, gunned down by the Free Syrian Army

“Just being Christian is enough to be a target,” report survivors. Nina Oshana was one of the innocent victims. She was simply a young Christian woman riding a bus. The FSA attacked the bus and shot and killed her.

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Morocco Fatwa Demands Death Sentence For Christian Converts

Apr 25th, 2013 | By
MorocoSeal

Christian converts in Morocco feared for their future Thursday, April 25, after the country’s highest Islamic institute issued a fatwa demanding the death penalty for Muslims who renounce their religion.

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Muslim Extremists in Somalia Seize, Torture Convert from Islam

Apr 18th, 2013 | By
Somali refugees in border town of Liboi, Kenya, en route to other parts of Kenya. (UNHCR photo)NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Muslim militants still controlling part of the Lower Shebelle Region of Somalia have jailed and tortured a Christian for converting from Islam, sources said.

Muslim militants still controlling part of the Lower Shebelle Region of Somalia have jailed and tortured a Christian for converting from Islam, sources said.

“The Al Shabaab have been torturing him to see whether he would deny his Christian faith,” the source said. “Since last week, no information has surfaced concerning Gulled. There is a possibility that he could have been killed.”

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Christian detainee in Libya dies from torture

Mar 11th, 2013 | By
Ezzat Hakim Atallah

Ezzat Hakim Atallah, an Evangelical Christian detainee in Libya accused of proselytizing, died from torture at the hands of the Libyan Preventive Security following his deportation from Benghazi to appear before the Attorney General.

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No Justice in Death of Pakistani Christian in Custody

Mar 5th, 2013 | By
naimat-maish

Murdered by cops because his son married a Muslim woman: Masih died on Oct. 13, 2012 after Arifwala police hung him upside down during his remand for investigation. Police had arrested him on Oct. 3 in case No. 509/12, filed by Muhammad Ashraf, after the latter’s divorced daughter eloped with Masih’s son, Asif alias Jogi. Marriage between a Muslim man and a Christian woman in Pakistan receives praise by the Muslim majority, but a marriage between a Muslim woman and a Christian man is both socially and religiously unacceptable

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Pakistan: Christian man mortally wounded for refusing to convert to Islam

Feb 5th, 2013 | By
Protesting murders of Christians in Pakistan

Younas Masih died this afternoon after he was shot five times last Thursday as he made his way home. An unknown gunman fired at the 55-year-old Christian man. From the beginning, his conditions appeared critical. It is believed he was attacked after he resisted pressures from co-workers to convert to Islam.

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Syria rebels beheaded Christian and fed him to dogs

Dec 31st, 2012 | By

Syrian rebels beheaded a Christian man and fed his body to dogs, according to a nun who says the West is ignoring atrocities committed by Islamic extremists.

The nun said taxi driver Andrei Arbashe, 38, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining that fighters against the ruling regime behaved like bandits. She said his headless corpse was found by the side of the road, surrounded by hungry dogs. He had recently married and was soon to be a father.

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OSCE Warsaw: Kamal Fahmi on Freedom of Speech

Oct 4th, 2012 | By

Editor: This is the sharp contrast between a South Sudanese Christian activist promoting freedom of thought versus the Islamist government of the Islamic northern Sudan which represses the rights and even the thoughts of its citizens.

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Report From Washington – August 10, 2012

Aug 10th, 2012 | By

IN THIS ISSUE: Obama increases lead over Romney / RFC ad campaign tells the truth about Obama / Romney digs hole deeper on social issues / Both Houses in recess / Defending Michele Bachmann against the new pro-Muslim GOP establishment / Gymnast Aly Raisman honors martyred Olympic Jews / Cop punished for eating Chick-fil-A sandwich / Three servicemen killed by Afghan police chief / “Mainstream” Islamic cleric promotes suicide bombings / Pakistani lawyer kills sister in court / UK honor killing guilt for parents who murdered daughter / Learn more about Islamic terror

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