Christians Under Attack

ONE of the two workers snatched by a combined group of Abu Sayyaf bandits, Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) guerrillas and other lawless Moros in a raid over the weekend at a Christian community in Basilan was found dead with his head nearly severed, the military said.

An improvised bomb exploded in a small Christian town of the Muslim Mindanao region in south Philippines, a military official reported Friday.

More than a year after Islamic militants murdered a popular missionary priest in the Philippines, the local bishop has claimed that people are still living in fear.

Three Red Cross workers, including an Italian and a Swiss national, were kidnapped by suspected Muslim rebels on a southern Philippine island yesterday, officials said.

COTABATO (Philippines) - MUSLIM separatists torched the homes of 30 Christian families in an attack on a southern Philippines village, the military said on Thursday

Suspected rogue Muslim rebels on Wednesday night detonated a bomb in front of a Christian religious site in Kabacan town in North Cotabato while an attempt at another similar site Thursday morning was aborted by security forces, according to a military spokesman

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.

The Philippine military has attacked Muslim rebels holed up in Catholic farmlands in the south prompting hundreds to flee their homes

The lone congressman of war-torn Basilan has revealed 80 percent of Muslims in Mindanao are “sympathetic” to the

MANILA, June 12, 2007 (AFP) - The Italian government has ruled out paying ransom for one of its priests kidnapped by Islamic militants in the southern Philippines, President Gloria Arroyo's chief aide said Tuesday