Bulletin of the Persecution of Christians
May 10 - June 26, 2012
May 10, 2012
Syria
(h/t
JihadWatch)
Gunmen Thursday expelled all Christian families from the village of Qustul al-Burg
in the rural province of Hama in central Syria.
May 11, 2012
Indonesia
(hat tip
JihadWatch)
Another Christian house of worship has been sealed off in Aceh Singkil district,
bringing the total since last week to 17 and marking a new low for religious
intolerance in the staunchly Muslim province, a rights group said on Wednesday.
Agusta Mukhtar, a spokesman for the group Pro-Democracy People, said it was
regrettable that the local authorities had sealed off the buildings following
a protest on April 30 by hard-line groups including the Islamic Defenders Front
(FPI), which oppose the buildings.
May 18, 2012
Macedonia
(h/t
thereligionofpeace)
There is an escalation of violence by the Muslims against the Christians in
Skopje. At a huge demonstration, Muslims chant "Death to Christians."
May 23, 2012
Kuwait
The eviction of a Christian congregation from a private villa used for worship
gatherings for the past seven years has some observers speculating whether Kuwait's
Islamist politicians are beginning to actively target non-Muslim groups.
Jordan
(h/t
thereligionofpeace)
The Jordan Dubai Islamic Bank on Wednesday fired a Christian employee because
she refused to wear a scarf to cover her hair as part of uniform for female
staff, its spokeswoman said.
May 25, 2012
Germany
(translation by
IslamInEurope)
An Afghan man claimed he was attacked at a refugee asylum center for having
converted to Christianity. He killed a Somali who he said tried to kill him
with a knife.
Kashmir
"Unknown arsonists" set fire to a Catholic church. The surveillance
films show two men taking advantage of the temporary absence of the security
guard. In those moments, the attackers threw petrol and other flammable material
at the front door, then set it on fire. Fortunately, the guard came back in
time to stop the fire to spreading: the entire building structure is made of
wood.
May 27, 2012
France
(h/t to
JihadWatch)
As Fr. Roger Barthes began to celebrate mass, four youths, aged 14 to 18, broke
into the Church of St. Joseph, before launching handfuls of pebbles at 150 faithful
present at the service. Immediately, men began pursuing the young troublemakers,
but in vain. They managed to vanish into thin air, heading towards the city
La Conte.
May 28, 2012
Zanzibar (ht/
thereligionofpeace)
Members of the Islamic revival group (UAMSHO) in Zanzibar, who on Saturday burnt
churches and vehicles, yesterday torched three bars as police arrested seven
of them in a major operation to bring the situation under control. More HERE.
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSL5E8GR1HB20120527?irpc=932
Zanzibar Commissioner of Police, Mussa Ali told journalists yesterday that they
had arrested seven members of the group and two of their leaders. He said they
are still hunting for the group's top leaders namely Sheikh Farid Hadi and his
Assistant Amir Azzan Khalid.
June 3, 2012
Nigeria
A suicide bomber crashed the gate of a church compound in this northern Nigerian
city this morning, killing himself and at least 10 others and leaving more than
30 injured, according to eyewitnesses and officials. Update
HERE.
June 4, 2012
Pakistan
(hat tip to
JihadWatch)
anPolice investigators in Narowal are siding with men accused of gang-raping a
13-year-old Christian girl and then torturing her family and killing her two
unborn cousins, say the girl's family.
Though FIRs of both incidents have been registered, the police have already
declared one of the three accused, a retired inspector's son, innocent in the
rape case. In the case for causing two stillbirths, the police are not arresting
the accused even though a judge cancelled their interim bails.
Tunsia
(translation by Raymond Ibrahim)
Liberal talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt Today,"
airing a video of Muslims slicing off a young man's head off for the crime of
apostasy -- in this instance, the crime of converting to Christianity and refusing
to renounce it.
During the beheading, the background speaker chants a number of Muslim prayers
and supplications, mostly condemning Christianity, which, because of the Trinity,
is referred to as a polytheistic faith: "Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist
apostate"; "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against
the polytheists"; "Allah, defeat the infidels at the hands of the
Muslims," and "There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is his messenger."
June 5, 2012
Indonesia
The number of violations of Christians' religious rights in Indonesia reached
40 in the first five months of the year, nearly two-thirds the amount of anti-Christian
actions in all of last year, according to the Jakarta Christian Communication
Forum.
June 6, 2012
Pakistan
Christians in a village in Punjab Province are fighting to save their decades-old
graveyard from being converted into farmland by a retired army colonel.
June 7, 2012
Pakistan
Christian women from Faisalabad were on their way back home after attending
the funeral service of their relative when their van was stopped by traffic
police near the railway level crossing at Pir Mahal.
The driver, Shahbaz Masih (also a Christian) was abused by the traffic officer
and later sent to jail for protesting an illegal fine. The Christian women passengers
were badly tortured by the police, and police tried to snatch the camera of
a local TV reporter for covering their manhandling and baton charging.
June 8, 2012
Iran
Authorities in Iran this week ordered the closure of a church in the capital,
Tehran, amid a government campaign to crack down on the few recognized churches
offering Farsi-speaking services, according to a human rights group.
June 9, 2012
Saudi
Arabia (h/t to
thereligionofpeace)
Thirty-five Ethiopian Christians will remain in jail in Jeddah. They were arrested
in December 2011 when they were caught praying in a private home. On Thursday,
International Christian Concern (ICC), a US-based Christian rights group, appealed
for their release, noting contradictions in Saudi claims.
Local authorities in fact refuse to acknowledge that the 29 women and 6 men
were imprisoned for religious reasons. What is known is that they have been
beaten, subjected to interrogations and strip searches.
June 10, 2012
Nigeria
An Islamic extremist ran a car full of explosives at a Pentecostal
church in
this Plateau state city this morning, killing at least two Christians
and injuring
more than 40 others, military and police officials said. Update here.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/eradicating-christianity-campaign-turns-in-new-kill-count
Egypt
(h/t to
JihadWatch)
Clashes broke out Saturday between Muslim and Coptic students in the Assiut
University women's dorms after a Coptic student reportedly proselytized Christianity
to Muslim students, leaving 12 students and supervisors injured.
June 12, 2012
Pakistan
Police have refused to arrest Muslims accused of causing the miscarriage of
twin girls by beating their mother, even though a judge cancelled the suspects'
interim bails, according to the woman's husband.
June 14, 2012
Syria
(h/t to
JihadWatch)
The Christian minority in Syria is facing a growing threat and thousands are
being forced to flee their homes as they face harassment and discrimination
from radial Islamist factions of the opposition.
At least 9,000 Christians from the western Syrian city of Qusayr were forced
to seek refuge after an ultimatum from a local military chief of the armed opposition,
Abdel Salam Harba, Fides news agency reports. In the latest outburst of violence
a Christian man was shot dead by a sniper in Qusayr, which neighbors the restive
city of Homs.
Zanzibar
Tanzanian Christians were seeking justice Thursday, June 14, after hundreds
of supporters of a separatist Islamic group burned two church buildings in the
East African nation's semi-autonomous region of Zanzibar. Last month's clashes
were the latest in a series of attacks that saw dozens of churches destroyed
in recent years, Christians and activists said.
Egypt
A hasty, inadequate renovation of a church building that Salafi Muslims largely
gutted a year ago has left the congregation with staggering debt from additional
repairs, church members said.
June 17, 2012
Palestine
Palestinian Authority TV chose to rebroadcast a program featuring a little girl
reciting a hate poem targeting Jews and Christians as "inferior and smaller,
more cowardly and despised." It was broadcast
in May and again this month.
Iran
(h/t to
thereligionofpeace)
It has been 130 days since five Christian coverts were arrested in Shiraz and
there has been no word on their situation since.
Nigeria
Aid workers searched for bodies Monday among charred vehicles and destroyed
market stalls after a trio of church bombings sparked reprisal killings in northern
Nigeria, officials said. The Nigerian Red Cross said the death toll had more
than doubled, to 50 people.
A radical Islamist sect on Monday claimed responsibility for Sunday's suicide
attacks at two churches in the city of Zaria and another in the city of Kaduna
that left 21 people dead, according to an initial count.
June 19, 2012
Indonesia
A mob of about 300 men vandalized a store that was being used for a church service
by dozens of Bethel Christians in Aceh on Sunday. The mob wrecked the first
floor of the store located in the Pasar Peunayong village of the Kuta Alam subdistrict
in Banda Aceh. The assailants broke windows and did damage to some furniture.
Sudan
A convert from Islam is back in Sudan fighting to recover his family after his
in-laws compelled his wife to claim she was Muslim and divorce him. A Sudanese
court automatically granted her custody of their two sons and forbade him to
see them, he said. He fears that if he persists in his legal battle, he faces
the threat of being accused of "apostasy," or leaving Islam.
June 20, 2012 Nigeria
A Christian leader in Nigeria has information that says the Islamic terrorist
group Boko Haram plans to declare holy war on Southern Nigeria and might use
food poisoning to kill as many people as possible.
June 26, 2012
Egypt
(h/t to
JihadWatch)
Muslims in the village of Basra in Alexandria, Egypt, surrounded the local Coptic
church, St. Lyons, during divine liturgy, "demanding that visiting Copts
leave the church before the completion of prayers, and threatening to burn down
the church if their demand was not met."
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