Christians in Nigeria are murdered almost daily through indiscriminate attacks led by Muslims. Nigerian Christian women are abducted, raped, gang-raped and sexually abused on a widespread scale. Violence is only one of the many forms of persecution that Christians in Nigeria face. They are also subjected to systematic, Sharia-based discrimination, a situation which is particularly […]
Kenya: Jihadists Target Majority-Christian Country
This month marks the ten-year anniversary of when Islamic terrorists stormed the Garissa University College in Kenya, murdering 148 Christian students and injuring at least 79. On April 2, 2015, gunmen took over 700 students hostage at the university campus. According to the witnesses, the terrorists asked the victims about their religion and segregated the […]
Iraq: Government, society, militias, airstrikes target Yazidis
Ten years since the Islamic State (ISIS) invaded the Yazidi homeland in Iraq, Sinjar, the Yazidi genocide remains ongoing. Islamic jihadis continuously target Yazidis in Iraq as does the government, Iraq’s wider society, Islamic clerics, and Shia militias who are supported by Iran, as well as Turkish airstrikes. On August 3, 2014, ISIS launched its […]
Libyans Face Death Penalty for Converting to Christianity
February 15 marked the tenth anniversary of the execution of 20 Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian by the Islamic State (IS) on a beach in Libya. In 2015, ISIS uploaded a YouTube video, entitled “A Message Signed with Blood to the Nation of the Cross”. 20 Coptic Christians and a Ghanaian Christian dressed in orange […]
Sudan: Genocide, Starvation, Crimes against Humanity
The world’s most ruinous war is approaching its third year in Sudan while the world largely stands by in indifference. Since April 2023, Sudan has been ravaged by a civil war between two Muslim forces, the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF, led by Sudan’s de facto ruler, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF, […]
Pakistan: Christian Girls Abducted, Raped, Forcibly Converted to Islam
The number of Pakistani Christian girls abducted, abused, and forcefully converted to Islam with the law’s consent is growing. In January, the Christian Daily International-Morning Star News reported the following cases: On January 5, a married, 35-year-old Muslim neighbor of a 12-year-old Christian girl, Saba Shafique, abducted her in Punjab Province. He took her to […]
Turkey’s ‘secular’ opposition party supports the use of the Muslim headscarf at public institutions
As Iranian women are protesting against the obligatory headscarf (hijab) laws and the actions of the “morality police” in the country, and getting murdered for daring to request freedom, Turkey’s “secular” opposition party has submitted a law proposal to the parliament, supporting the use of the headscarf at all state institutions. The chairman of Turkey’s […]
Turkey: Hundreds of churches and monasteries waiting to be ‘saved’
A hundred years after the 1913-23 genocide of Christians by Ottoman Turkey, the last remnants of the cultural and religious heritage belonging to Christians – principally Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians – are on the verge of extinction. An Armenian Member of Turkey’s Parliament, Garo Paylan, visited the city of Van on September 2 to take […]
Turkey: Criticism of Islamic theology leads to professor having to testify before prosecutors
A university professor in Turkey has been summoned to testify at a prosecutor’s office for his remarks on a Turkish TV channel. These consisted of his rejection of the validity of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. According to a news report in Turkish media, professor Celal Şengör was ordered to testify in ten days as a […]
Islamists Violently Targeted These Turkish Authors Because of Salman Rushdie’s Work
Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed in the neck, arm, and abdomen on August 12 by a man who stormed onto the stage as the author was about to give a lecture in western New York. The knife attack against Rushdie took place more than 33 years after a fatwa was decreed against him by Iran’s […]