Afghanistan is the world’s most dangerous place for Christians, displacing North Korea for the first time in 20 years in a Christian advocacy group’s annual report.
Open Doors released its 2022 World Watch List on Wednesday, identifying 50 countries where as many as 100 million Christians face danger because of their faith. Nigeria and India are among the top 10 nations on the list, and China is ranked 17.
Christians in Pakistan have suffered the secondary effects of U.S. intervention abroad.
On St. Patrick’s Day, 2018, four men waved down a rickshaw driver in a suburb of the Pakistani megalopolis of Karachi. The men, all Muslim and led by a Muslim cleric, recognized the cabbie, who happened to be a Catholic they had harassed many years prior. They pulled him out of the rickshaw, beat him almost to death, and then set fire to the vehicle, his only source of income.
I know that Christian, whose name is Michael D’Souza. My wife and I befriended him during three years living in Bangkok, where he and his family had fled in 2012, seeking asylum and refugee status. With the assistance of some family and friends, we paid his family’s airfare when they decided, after almost a year in Bangkok’s infamous Immigration Detention Center, to return to Pakistan in summer 2017.
Mary Onuoha wins case against Croydon university hospital’s uniform policy that prohibited wearing necklaces
A nurse who claimed she was victimised for wearing a necklace with a Christian cross at work has won a case for unfair dismissal.
… According to the tribunal’s ruling, the wearing of jewellery, including necklaces, was “rife” among the trust’s workforce and was “widely tolerated” by management.
The trust allowed employees to wear other items of religious apparel such as headscarves, turbans and kalava bracelets. “There was no proper explanation as to why those items were permitted but a cross-necklace was not,” the ruling said.
The trust had “directly discriminated against and harassed” Onuoha, and her “dismissal had been both discriminatory and unfair”.
Santa Claus effigies burnt in Agra on Christmas Eve
Effigies of Santa Claus were burnt in Agra on Friday, claiming the mythical figure to be part of a “strategy” by Christian missionaries to convert people.
The incident took place at the intersection of St John’s College on Mahatma Gandhi Marg on Christmas Eve. Members of the Antarrashtriya Hindu Parishad and Rashtriya Bajrang Dal took out a procession carrying effigies of Saint Nicholas, more commonly known as Santa Claus.
These effigies were then set ablaze while activists raised slogans like “Santa Claus Murdabad”
Hindus hate Santa! Murdabad translates as “Death To”
Elsewhere … Jesus statue smashed in spate of attacks on India’s Christian community
… The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance against Christians in Europe (OIDAC), which has compiled a report on anti-Christian hate crime in the continent, says the two main threats come from ‘secular intolerance’ and ‘Islamic oppression’.
… They said: ‘Islamic Oppression can mostly be seen in what we call “hotspot areas” of European cities and suburbs, where they impose unique legal and moral codes, which are often in contradiction to democratic principles and human rights.’
On Monday night in Denton, Texas, a pro-life vigil was underway when it was crashed by hundreds of Antifa protestors, who attempted to drown the event out.
BREAKING: Pastor Artur Pawlowski ARRESTED again after landing at Calgary airport
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It was just a few weeks ago that President Joe Biden left his vacation in order to handle a couple of photo opportunities. One was to deliver a speech at the White House regarding the crisis in Afghanistan while the other was to conduct an interview with ABC News to try and salvage his credibility.
In the ABC interview, Biden said that he was committed to leaving American troops in Afghanistan until anyone who wanted to leave the country was out. He said that he was committed to providing these Americans a safe exit from the country.
According to a report by the Christian Ministry organization Frontier Alliance International (FAI), the Taliban are targeting Christians for death.
“The Taliban has a hit list of known Christians they are targeting to pursue and kill,” the FAI report reads.
By way of the iron-clad grip that globalist forces have upon Canadian society, reality is morphing into something far stranger than fiction.
They have become a target of both speech-policing cops and violent extremists.
Has the UK become a hostile place for Christian street preachers?
Hazel Lewis was arrested while preaching outside Finsbury Park Tube station in north London on 12 February 2020. She was falsely accused of homophobia and racism. Passers-by said she had called for gays and non-believers to be stabbed. Officers decided she had not, in fact, used homophobic or racist language, but she was still charged with a public-order offence.
A Christian church in Canada, whose doors were locked by health officials for breaking COVID rules, is facing $85,000 in new fines, but a judge agreed Tuesday to allow them to open so long as they post a COVID safety “plan” inside their building.
“The other elders owe $7,500 each, and the church itself owes $35,000. The judge will review the Ministry of the Attorney General’s legal costs and then order us to pay legal costs at a later date. So in total we owe $85,000 plus legal costs,” wrote Pastor Jacob Reaume of Trinity Bible Chapel located in Waterloo, Ontario, in a July 27 note.
“Frankly, I would expect this sort of religious crackdown in Communist China, not in a prominent Western nation like Canada.”
So stated U. S. Senator Josh Hawley in a letter to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom in Washington, D.C. on June 24th, 2021.
“Two motorcycles carrying two Muslims each and dressed in Islamic attire speedily bypassed us,” his son, a minor, later explained. “When we were 200 meters to reach our house, the two motorcycles stopped at the junction opposite Nalufenya primary school and the road near our house.” The pastor told his son to wait while he went to confront the four men. “Immediately some commotion began as the men started talking about the open-air debate, and soon one of them slapped my father,” said his son. “I got scared and fled … and arrived at home.” The boy eventually met up with his mother, and they went searching for Pastor Thomas.
A decade ago, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) under President Barack Obama targeted tea party organizations for extra scrutiny and even denial of tax-exempt status. Democrats and the IRS seem determined to be even more brazen under Joe Biden.
