Islamic Rioters Attack Christian Shops in Northern Iraq
By Damaris Kremida ISTANBUL (Compass Direct News) – Attacks against Christian Assyrian businesses in northern Iraq over the weekend, which local sources said were organized by a pro-Islamic political party, marked the first such destruction of Christian establishments in the Kurdish region. The rampage threatens the frail security of Iraq’s dwindling Christian population, sources said. After mullah Mala Ismail Osman Sindi’s sermon claiming there was moral corruption in massage parlors in the northern town of Zakho on Friday … Read entire article »
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Police Detain, Beat Christian Converts from Islam in India
By Vishal Arora NEW DELHI (Compass Direct News) – Police in India’s Kashmir Valley detained and beat converts from Islam and were expected to arrest Christian workers after Muslim leaders alleged that Muslim youth were being “lured” to Christianity. Police in the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley picked up seven converts who were recently baptized in All Saints Church in Srinagar, a local Christian who spoke to the converts after their release on Nov. 2 told Compass. Srinagar is … Read entire article »
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Attack on Church Compound in Kenya Kills Two, Wounds Three
By Simba Tian GARISSA, Kenya (Compass Direct News) – Suspected Islamic extremists with Somalia’s al Shabaab militia threw a grenade into the home of the church guard of an East Africa Pentecostal Church (EAPC) congregation outside Garissa, Kenya on Saturday night (Nov. 5), killing an 8-year-old girl and another member of the church, sources said. Three other people were seriously injured in the 8 p.m. grenade attack on the house, which is near the gate of the … Read entire article »
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Somali Convert to Christianity Kidnapped, Beheaded
By Dan Wooding Founder of ASSIST Ministries HUDUR CITY, SOMALIA (ANS) – Compass Direct News (CDN) is reporting that a kidnapped Christian convert from Islam was found decapitated on Sept. 2 on the outskirts of Hudur City in Bakool region, in southwestern Somalia. CDN says that Juma Nuradin Kamil was forced into a car by three suspected Islamic extremists from the al Shabaab terrorist group on Aug. 21, area sources said. The kidnapping and subsequent manner of murder suggests that al Shabaab militants had been monitoring him, Christian leaders said. … Read entire article »
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Somali Islamists Kill Twenty-Fourth Christian Convert
By Jeremy Reynalds Senior Correspondent for ASSIST News Service WASHINGTON D.C. (ANS) — A human rights organization has learned that members of the Somali Islamic radical group, Al-Shabaab, killed a Christian convert from Islam in the Somali capital of Mogadishu. The killing occurred on Jan. 26. Another Christian convert escaped from Al-Shabaab’s detention on Jan. 29. According to International Christian Concern (ICC), the Islamists killed Abdirahman Hussein Roble after accusing him of spying and promoting religious discord by evangelizing Muslims. ICC said two eye witnesses notified Abdirahman’s widow and relatives about his murder on Feb. 9. Abdirahman, who converted to Christianity in 2009, was the father of two children. He is the twenty-fourth Christian to be killed by the Somali Islamists since 2009. Another Christian convert from Islam escaped from a makeshift detention center run by Al-Shabaab. ICC … Read entire article »
Filed under: Assist News Service, Islam, Persecution, Somalia
