Archive | June 19, 2012
Indonesia. Muslim extremists attacked church in Aceh.

Indonesia. Muslim extremists attacked church in Aceh.

A mob of Muslim extremists attacked a Christian prayer house in Aceh Province. The building was damaged and worshippers were forced to stop the service. Local witnesses, who asked their names be withheld, said that the attack occurred last Sunday, during worship. The place itself belongs to the Indonesian Bethel Church. The fundamentalist attack was [...]

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Syria, Iran, Russia and China: “Biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East”.

Syria, Iran, Russia and China: “Biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East”.

Iran, Russia, China and Syria are planning to hold the largest war games exercise in the Middle East in less than a month, Iran’s Fars media reported Tuesday. Citing “informed sources,” the report said that 90,000 soldiers from the four countries are to take part. The massive war games drill will include air defense and [...]

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Iraq. Christian Iraqi refugees: “There’s no future here in Jordan”.

Iraq. Christian Iraqi refugees: “There’s no future here in Jordan”.

“I never want to go back to Iraq, ever,” declares Lina, 34 (all names have been changed at the request of the respondents), a Chaldean Catholic from Baghdad, articulating the opinion of most Iraqi refugees in Jordan. For many of them, their experiences were just too horrible. “I was very nearly killed as well in [...]

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Egypt.  Analysts: The election was actually won by the secular candidate, Ahmed Shafiq.

Egypt. Analysts: The election was actually won by the secular candidate, Ahmed Shafiq.

Has anyone stopped to ask where the headlines “Muslim Brotherhood wins Egypt’s presidential election!” originated? They came, of course, straight from the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies, particularly the Qatari Islamist propaganda machine, Al Jazeera, and were then helpfully perpetuated by the mainstream media and talking-heads. That allegation might sound suspiciously like a “conspiracy theory” [...]

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Nigeria. Death toll from the bombings on three churches has risen to 63.

Nigeria. Death toll from the bombings on three churches has risen to 63.

Kaduna — The death toll from the bombings on three churches in Zaria and Kaduna and the reprisal attacks that followed on Sunday has risen to 63, checks by Daily Trust revealed yesterday. Our reporters who visited St. Gerard and Barau Dikko hospitals in Kaduna metropolis and the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching (ABUTH), Shika, Zaria [...]

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Nigeria. Boko Haram will continue unleashing violence.

Nigeria. Boko Haram will continue unleashing violence.

Maiduguri — THE Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, also known as Boko Haram, on Sunday night claimed responsibility for the Sunday attacks on churches in Kaduna and Zaria, and vowed to continue their attacks in different parts of the country. The group said their increasing onslaught through suicide bombings of churches are meant to [...]

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Nigeria. Christians on red alert –  North planned jihad.

Nigeria. Christians on red alert – North planned jihad.

Enugu — THE Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Southeast chapter, has placed Christians in the zone on red alert over reports that about 2000 youths have been deployed from the North to the region ahead of a planned jihad. Addressing journalists yesterday after an enlarged caucus meeting of the Christian body yesterday at the All [...]

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