ETHIOPIA: ISLAMISTS RECEIVE LIFE SENTENCES FOR CHURCH ATTACKS
Church appeals ‘secretive’ ruling; three officials said to be instigators remain free.
ISTANBUL, (Compass Direct News) – In a snap ruling that surprised local Christians, an Ethiopian court has sentenced three Muslim men to life imprisonment for a deadly machete attack on two churches last March.
MURRIETA, Calif. — A self-described polygamist was convicted Wednesday of charges that he starved, tortured and abused his two wives and many of his 19 children and stepchildren.
LONDON (AFP) - The wife of one of the failed 2005 London suicide bombers was jailed for 15 years Thursday, after being found guilty of failing to tell the police about the terrorist plot.Yeshi Girma, 32, knew her husband Hussain Osman was planning to unleash carnage in the failed July 21, 2005 attacks and could have stopped the attempted bombings, England's Old Bailey central criminal court heard.
By leaving Islam, ‘apostate’ loses right because he ‘has no creed.’
ISTANBUL, (Compass Direct News) – A Jordanian Islamic law court has annulled the marriage of a former Muslim because of his conversion to Christianity.
The North Amman Sharia Court in April dissolved the marriage of Mohammad Abbad, on trial for apostasy, or leaving Islam.
Baroness Cox raises the question of Religious Freedom
with Egypt at the House of Lords.
Egyptian government abuses will be discussed at the June EU-Egypt political sub-committee established under the European neighbourhood policy action plan.
Further to the Written Answer by Lord Malloch-Brown on 10 March (WA 199), whether their welcome of the ruling of the Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court on 10 February took account of the referral of Article 47 of the civil and personal status law to the Egyptian High Constitutional Court to determine its compatibility with Article II of the Egyptian constitution. [HL3815]
Christianity is being discriminated against by the Government in favour of Islam and other minority faiths, according to a landmark Church of England report.
The damning critique of Labour, which is endorsed by the Archbishop of Canterbury, says ministers are only paying "lip service" to the Anglican Church while "focusing intently" on other religions.
LCHR condemns Abu Fana Monastery attack, Egyptian government’s indifferent response to incident
The Leadership Council for Human Rights condemns the recent attacks on Egypt’s Abu Fana Monastery and is outraged by Cairo’s lack of response to this latest assault on the nation’s beleaguered Coptic Christian minority.
The May 31 attacks occurred in Mallawi, in Egypt’s El Minya Province. According to news reports and our colleagues at the Coptic Assembly of America (CAA), a mob of least 60 men carrying automatic weapons stormed the monastery, destroying and burning property, including two on-site churches and crops on monastic farmland.
A Coptic Christian youth has been stabbed to death by a Muslim neighbour in southern Egypt, the latest violent incident between members of the two faiths, a security source said on Friday.
Milad Ibrahim Farag, 20, was attacked overnight in the village of Dafash by Khamis Eid Abdel Halim, 21, and died on route to hospital, the source said.
Coptic Christians Pope Shenouda III, centre, visits an Egyptian Coptic monk, under treatment at a hospital in Cairo, Egypt Friday, June 6, 2008. The monk was injured during bloody clashes between Muslims and Christians last Saturday in a village near the southern city of Minya.
CAIRO: Hundreds of Copts demonstrated yesterday in Samalout, Minya, following the murder of a Copt. At the same time, in Nazlet El Seman, Giza, a fire broke out on the roof of the Mary Girgis Church.
Officials stressed that both incidents are criminal and are not sectarian.
A woman touches Pope Shenouda III, as he blesses members of his congregation during his first public appearance at the Abbasiya cathedral in Cairo, on June 4, after an extended trip abroad for medical treatment.
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda III, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, avoided discussing the attack on Abo Fana Monastery during his weekly meeting with the Coptic congregation.
The Pope was expected to address the incident, which is thought to be a sectarian clash. He had cut his extended medical trip to the US short and returned to Cairo on Wednesday following the attack.
You can't preach the Bible here, this is a Muslim area
(What a community policeman told two Christians)
By Steve Doughty and Andy Dolan
Two Christian preachers were stopped from handing out Bible extracts by police because they were in a Muslim area, it was claimed yesterday.
They say they were told by a Muslim police community support officer that they could not preach there and that attempting to convert Muslims to Christianity was a hate crime.
Calm has returned to Deir Abu Fana, a village 210km south of Egypt's capital, Cairo, after the release of three monks abducted amid tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians.
One Muslim man was killed and four Coptic Christians, including two monks, injured Saturday when a land dispute involving a historic monastery in Egypt turned violent, a security official said.
Recently, the British government has given a warning that school children are at risk of being manipulated by Islamic extremists.
Ed Balls, the British Secretary for Children, Schools and Families, gave a warning that school children were at risk of being exposed to Islamic extremism. He has brought up fears that these children could be new recruits for militant Islamic movements. Balls has urged teachers to attack the problem early by winning the “hearts and minds.”
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (AFP) - US President George W. Bush on Wednesday likened America's efforts to quell Islamic extremism in Iraq and Afghanistan to the US fight against fascism during World War II.
If recent reports of trends in religious observance prove to be correct, then in some 30 years the mosque will be able to claim that, religiously speaking, the UK is an Islamic nation, and therefore needs a share in any religious establishment to reflect this. The progress of conservative Islam in the UK has been amazing, and it has come at a time of prolonged decline in church attendance that seems likely to continue.
Six churches gutted after recovery of Christians teenagers from Muslim kidnappers.
Remains of Deeper Life Bible Church
NINGI, Nigeria, May 19 (Compass Direct News) – Islamists under the auspices of a paramilitary force last week destroyed six churches to protest a police rescue of two teenage Christian girls kidnapped by Muslims in this Bauchi state town.
Police in the southern Iran city of Shiraz this month cracked down against known Muslim converts to Christianity, arresting members of three Christian families and confiscating their books and computers.
The arrests began at 5 a.m. on May 11, when two couples were taken into custody before boarding their flights at the Shiraz International Airport and sent directly to jail. All four were subjected to hours of interrogation, questioning them solely “just about their faith and house church activities,” an Iranian source told Compass.
A man has been remanded in custody charged with spraying urine at two supermarkets, a pub and a book shop. Sahnoun Daifallah, 42, of Bibury Road, from Gloucester, appeared before magistrates and pleaded not guilty to four charges of contaminating products.
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