By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
SHIMI, EGYPT (ANS) — Middle-East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, is reporting that on Friday, August 13, 2010, Sheikh Tobah, an Imam from the Egyptian village of Shimi, 170 kilometers — 105 miles — south of Giza, called during Muslim Friday prayers for “Jihad” against Christians living there.
“As a result the >>>Continue reading >>>
Islamists demolish foundation; police withhold crime report from court
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
MWANYANYA-MTON, ZANZIBAR (ANS) — Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that Zanzibar officials have colluded with local Muslims to stop a church building going ahead so they could erect a mosque in its place.
The CDN report said, “On an island off >>>Continue reading >>>
By Dan Wooding, Founder of ASSIST Ministries
CAIRO, EGYPT (ANS) — Middle East journalist, Mary Abdelmassih, has told the ASSIST News Service (ANS), that the role played by Muslim women in the “abduction and forced Islamization of Christian females in Egypt is on the rise, with continuously changing methods of deception.”
Abdelmassih said, “Victims are mostly minor >>>Continue reading >>>
By Jeremy Reynalds, Correspondent for ASSIST News Service
PAKISTAN (ANS) – More Christians are starting to face allegations of blasphemy under controversial laws in Pakistan.
According to a story by Aftab Alexander Mughal writing for Minorities Concern of Pakistan (MCOP), Christian families in Lahore were forced to flee for their safety while at the same time thousands >>>Continue reading >>>
By Elizabeth Kendal, Special to ASSIST News Service
AUSTRALIA (ANS) – In May 1980 Egypt amended its constitution to elevate Sharia (Islamic Law) as ‘the principal source of legislation’. This provision is now common in Muslim constitutions, including the new constitutions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Constitutional guarantees of religious liberty and equality before the law are >>>Continue reading >>>