An international human rights advocate has joined calls for the release of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws. Amnesty International on Friday also called on Pakistan to revise the law under which mother of five Asia Bibi was convicted this month. The case stems from a dispute between Bibi…
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Two more Christians murdered in Iraq on Monday night and another three yesterday, as the community is driven to extinction. And on the Today programme earlier this week there was yet another segment about this persecuted minority, perhaps suggesting that the media are waking up to what many Iraqis themselves call “genocide” (the word, incidentally,…
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Florida Pastor Who Once Threatened To Burn Quran Leads Small Anti-mosque Protest In NYC The Florida pastor who backed down from a threat to burn the Quran on Sept. 11 has led a few dozen protesters to the site of a proposed mosque near ground zero. Terry Jones expressed sympathy on Tuesday for 9/11 victims’…
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Muslims burned at least ten Christian homes in Southern Egypt over a rumor that a young Coptic Christian man and a Muslim girl were in a romantic relationship, said officials Tuesday. Authorities have arrested several people suspected of being involved in the torching of Christian homes in Qena province that began overnight Sunday. They have…
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Author Dinesh D’Souza presented his theories on the connection between religion, Atheism and world conflicts this week to students, faculty and community members at Stephen F. Austin State University. D’Souza, author of “Roots of Obama’s Rage” and “What’s So Great About Christianity,” began by addressing the claims that say President Barack Obama is Muslim, or…
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Iraq’s 2,000-year-old Christian community is on the brink of extinction, its members targeted by al Qaeda attacks and fleeing abroad. But Hillary Clinton, the one person who could force the Iraq government to act, is keeping her mouth shut. A full-scale genocide is under way in Iraq: a well-planned, well-financed, deliberate plot to cleanse the…
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Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans debating Muslim integration to stand up more for Christian values, saying Monday the country suffered not from “too much Islam” but “too little Christianity.” Addressing her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, she said she took the current public debate in Germany on Islam and immigration very seriously. As part of…
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The case of two Egyptian women who fled their priest husbands and supposedly converted to Islam before being forcibly returned to the Coptic Church has gripped the media and fanned the flames of sectarian tension in the Arab world’s most populous country. Now, the domestic story appears to have spiraled into a regional flash point.…
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In his recent visit to Turkey, German president Christian Wulff correctly stated that Christianity belongs to Turkey. In the Turkish city of Antakya, Jesus` devotees for the first time called themselves as Christians. Anatolia was the heartland of the Christian Byzantine Empire and millions of Christians and other religious minorities lived in the Ottoman Empire.…
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A new chapter in the age-old debate about the role of religion in government is playing out in Oklahoma this month as a federal judge considers the constitutionality of a ballot initiative that forbids state courts from considering Islamic Shariah law in their decisions. Although sponsors of the measure produced no evidence that Shariah law…
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