Christians Under Attack

A disabled 25-year-old shopkeeper was killed yesterday, not far from the shop that he owned. The objective of the fundamentalists is to shut down the activities of Christians and force them to flee. A source for AsiaNews denounces the "complicity" of the police, and the "curtain of silence" that has fallen across the slaughter.

EGYPT: COURT GIVES CHRISTIAN BOYS TO MUSLIM FATHER

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Somali pirates pointed guns habitually at Malaysian and Filipino tanker crew members held captive for weeks, but allowed Muslim hostages to fast and pray to observe the holy month of Ramadan, news reports said Sunday.

Muslim prison gangs are trying to force other inmates to sign up to Islamic radicalism, prison officers said.

MANILA, PHILIPPINES (BosNewsLife)-- Christians in the southern Philippines feared more attacks Tuesday, October 7, a day after the European Union said it would extend seven million euros, or almost 10 million dollars, in emergency aid for people displaced by the Muslim insurgency in the area.

South Sudan's government has expressed outrage after police in the capital, Juba, arrested more than 30 women for wearing tight trousers or short skirts.

Rubina Sheikh from Helsingborg in southern Sweden believes she’s received a message from God – in a rotten mango.

CHICAGO - A one-time admirer of Osama bin Laden who plotted a hand-grenade attack at a mall jammed with Christmas shoppers — and tried to trade two stereo speakers for the weapons — was sentenced to 35 years in prison Tuesday.

ACU Summit speaker made transition from Muslim to Christian at risk of life

Algiers, 22 Sept. (AKI) - A leader of the Al-Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb has threatened France and Spain in an audio message broadcast on jihadist Internet forums on Monday.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - All 19 hostages seized on a safari in a remote desert border area of Egypt have been released and are safe, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Monday.