Christians Under Attack

A group of Egypt’s Christian women voters were banned on Saturday in Cairo’s Nasr City from casting their ballot in a disputed constitutional referendum, an Al Arabiya correspondent and AFP reported. 

Baghdad (AsiaNews) - An Advent of light and shadow for Iraq's Christians, who are celebrating the reopening of the cathedral of Baghdad but at the same time subjected to new - and heavy - threats from a radical Shiite Muslim leader. From studies of a television broadcaster based in Egypt, an Iraqi Ayatollah launches a fatwa against the religious minority on the eve of Christmas:

Having worked in Copenhagen's youth prison, I know that the only gangs that rule in Nørrebro, Copenhagen, are Muslim -- Blågårdsbanden and Brothas are two of them. JihadWatch has earlier reported on Muslim extortion against non-Muslim businesses

Authorities in Pakistan have held three people over a threat to bomb a church school in Islamabad unless it paid them $51,000 (£38,000), officials say.

In the 70 percent of Texas public schools where a private curriculum has been installed, students are learning the “fact” that “Allah is the Almighty God,” charge critics of a new online curriculum that already is facing condemnation for its secrecy and restrictions on oversight.

A Cairo court sentenced activist Alber Saber to three years in prison for insulting Islam Wednesday.

TUCSON (AP) — Jury selection is set to begin in the trial of a man accused of killing an Arizona imam over a Quran interpretation more than two decades ago.

IT'S billed as the ''largest, the biggest and the best-ever Islamic event in the history of Australia'' - a three-day festival for an expected 20,000 Muslims - and it will be held in Melbourne in March.

Despite their families and attorney's follow up efforts, five Christian converts are still being held in Adel-Abad prison in Shiraz in a critical condition with their fate unknown.

I joked as I left town last week that you would get a break from news about “refugees gone wild,” but golly I didn’t think they would be making news and going wild the very next day!

Kolkata: According to a recently released report of 'Prisons Statistics - 2011' by the National Crime Bureau, the Muslim percentage of inmates in West Bengal is disproportionately high.