Islamic Assailants Kill Hundreds of Christians Near Jos, Nigeria

Source: CDN

An uneasy calm prevailed in Plateau state, Nigeria today following the killing of hundreds of Christians early yesterday morning in three farming villages near Jos by ethnic Fulani Muslims.
The mostly ethnic Berom victims included many women and children killed with machetes by rampaging Fulani herdsmen. About 75 houses were also burned.
State Information Commissioner Gregory Yenlong confirmed that about 500 persons were killed in the attacks, which took place mainly in Dogo Nahawa, Zot and Rastat villages.
“We were woken up by gunshots... more

Geert Wilders Speech -- House of Lords 05310
Home Truths from Abroad

House of Lords, London
Thank you. It is great to be back in London. And it is great that this time, I got to see more of this wonderful city than just the detention centre at Heathrow Airport.
Today I stand before you, in this extraordinary place. Indeed, this is a sacred place. This is, as Malcolm always says, the mother of all Parliaments, I am deeply humbled to have the opportunity to speak before you.
Thank you Lord Pearson and Lady Cox for your invitation and showing my film, Fitna. Thank you my friends for inviting me. .. more

Iranian Pastor Tortured, Threatened for ‘Converting Muslims’

Source: CDN

An Assyrian pastor the Iranian government accused of “converting Muslims” is being tortured in prison and threatened with execution, sources close to the case said.
State Security agents on Feb. 2 arrested the Rev. Wilson Issavi, 65, shortly after he finished a house meeting at a friend’s home in Isfahan. A city of more than 1.5 million people, Isfahan is located 208 miles (335 kilometers) south of Tehran.
According to Farsi Christian News Network, Issavi’s wife, Medline Nazanin, recently visited her husband in prison, where she saw that he had obvious signs of torture and was in poor condition. Iranian intelligence officials told Nazanin that her husband might be executed for his ... more

European Union Growing Ally for Persecuted Christians?

Source: CBN

The religious rights group Open Doors reports that 100 million Christians worldwide are persecuted or discriminated against in their own countries.

Most of them live in nations where Islam is the dominant religion. Communist nations like China, cuba, and North Korea are also offenders.

In many of these nations, Christians aren't allowed to build churches, buy bibles, or find good jobs. In the worst cases, they are arrested, beaten, and sometimes murdered.
But the European Union is taking.... more

Egyptian Court Acquits Muslim Who Beheaded a Christian

By Mary Abdelmassih AINA

An Egyptian court in the southern city of Assuit acquitted this week four Muslims accused of killing 61-year-old Farouk Attallah on October 19, 2009. In broad daylight and in full view of witnesses, the killers fired 31 bullets to his head before beheading him, in the busy village market place of Attaleen, near Dairout, 313 kilometers south of Cairo. The dead body was then dragged in the street, accompanied by shouts of victory. Free Copts website published a video of the disfigured body (warning, violent graphic content: video).... more

Guess Who’s Coming to the Cathedral?

Source: FrontPage magazine - Posted By Faith J. H. McDonnell

If you were counting on a robust offensive (or even a mild defense) from U.S. churches to stop in its tracks the incursion of Islamism in America, perhaps you should save up to pay your jizya (tax imposed on non-Muslims, dhimmis, for the right to exist). Many churches in America are neither willing nor prepared to counter the influence and infiltration of Islamism in their own congregations, let alone in the wider civil society. Rather than fear the judgment of the Almighty, these churches fear the label “Islamophobic.”
Particularly in the left-leaning mainline denominations, but disturbingly more and more common with formerly conservative evangelicals as well,.... more

Egyptian Government Attempts to Silence Coptic Diaspora

By Mary Abdelmassih

The drive-by shooting of Copts as they left Christmas Eve mass on January 6 in the southern Egyptian town of Nag Hammadi has shocked and enraged Copts all over the world. (http://www.aina.org/news/20100107150122.htm) International condemnations poured in after the attack, which left six Copts dead and nine injured, with Italy, Canada, France, the Vatican, the US Congress, and the European Parliament, .... more

Pakistani Christian Beaten for Refusing to Convert to Islam

Source: CDN

The four older Muslim brothers of a 26-year-old Christian beat him unconscious here earlier this month because he refused their enticements to convert to Islam, the victim told Compass.
Riaz Masih, whose Christian parents died when he was a boy, said his continual refusal to convert infuriated his siblings and the Muslim cleric who raised them, Moulvi Peer Akram-Ullah. On Feb. 8, he said, his brothers ransacked his house in this Punjab Province town 233 kilometers (145 miles) southwest of Islamabad.
“They threatened that it was the breaking point now, and that I must convert right now or face death,” Masih said. “They said killing an infidel is not a sin, .. more

Another Copt Killed as Alleged Shooters Plead Not Guilty in Egypt

Source: Compass Direct News News - Charisma

Three men accused of killing six Coptic worshipers and a security guard pleaded not guilty on Saturday as the Coptic community mourned the loss of yet another victim of apparent anti-Christian violence.
The three men allegedly sprayed a crowd with gunfire after a Christmas service in Nag Hammadi, Egypt, on Jan. 6. In addition to the seven that were killed, nine others were wounded. The killings were the worst act of anti-Coptic violence since January 2000, when 20 Copts were killed in sectarian fighting in Al-Kosheh.
Defendants Mohammed ... more

Mosul Archbishop Says Christians Live in Panic, Targeted in Killings

Source: CNS - By Simon Caldwell
The killings of four Iraqi Christians in as many days could prompt a wave of refugees fleeing northern Iraq, where Christians live in constant state of panic, said a Catholic archbishop.
Chaldean Archbishop Emil Shimoun Nona of Mosul, Iraq, said he knew of about 10 Christian families who already had fled the violence.
But he said there was a risk that "all the (Christian) people will leave" the Nineveh region, of which Mosul is the capital, unless the attacks against Christians were brought to an end..... more