Hopes fade for Nigerian schoolgirls
HOPES THAT A GROUP OF SCHOOL GIRLS kidnapped by militant terror group Boko Haram could be returned to their parents in Nigeria have faded after their home village was over-run…
North Korea releases jailed Americans
THREE AMERICANS serving tough jail sentences in North Korea have all been returned safely home. Jeffrey Fowle, aged 56, had been arrested for leaving a Bible at a sailor’s club…
Egyptian convert not allowed to travel to court
THE FIRST Egyptian citizen to change his legal religious identity from ‘Muslim’ to ‘Christian’ faces losing his prison appeal because he is not allowed to travel to court.
Persecution of Christians not discussed with Algeria
THE UK GOVERNMENT has not raised the issue of the persecution of Christians when discussing human rights with Algeria.
Pastor Saeed’s mum flees death threats
THE MOTHER OF JAILED PASTOR Saeed Abedini is believed to have escaped to America after receiving daily death threats in Iran – where her son is being held and tortured…
IS sells children, age 1-9, for more than teenage girls
THE PRICES OF CHRISTIAN SLAVES captured by Islamic State militants in Iraq have been published.
Children ‘chopped in half’ – Vicar of Baghdad
Why won’t Westerners believe me, asks Canon Andrew White “CHRISTIAN CHILDREN have been chopped in half by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq – but no one believes it.” Canon…
The ‘holy war’ against Christians
THAT THERE IS A ‘HOLY WAR’ in the name of ‘God’ raging in the Middle East, the birthplace of Christianity, will not surprise most readers of this paper. But a…
New laws could save Pakistan mum from hanging
ASIA BIBI HAS SAT IN A PRISON CELL in Pakistan for the past five years and often in solitary confinement – on death row over a glass of water. The…
With tears, they tell us of the horrible things they have seen and experienced
EXCLUSIVE: Stories you won’t see in the secular press. This Sussex-based mission group reports from their first-hand experience of working with persecuted minorities in Iraq To most of the world,…
Egyptian churches reopen
TEN CHURCHES wrecked by radical Muslims in the summer of last year (2013) in Egypt have now been reopened.
THE DAY THEY TOOK MY LITTLE GIRL AGED 3
Father of two Chris Eyte tries to understand how these bereft parents feel Imagine this: You are an Assyrian Christian targeted by Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq. You have…
WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS…
You will hear of wars and rumours of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen, but the end is still to come. Nation…
South Sudan starvation danger
MILLIONS OF PEOPLE face death through starvation because the western world has ignored the needs of people in war-torn South Sudan. A new appeal was launched in London this summer…
Prince and Archbishop ‘heartbroken’ and horrified at IS slaughter
THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, compared the present day slaughter by so-called Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria to a ruthless invasion of the Middle…