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Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:26
Pakistan: 2013 Election
This year an election will be held in Pakistan to elect a new president. Already there is much discussion about how to make the election fair and honest amid charges of potential fraud. Potential candidates are…
Sunday, 10 February 2013 15:25
NIGERIA: Factors fuelling fighting
Violence is intensifying in Nigeria. A Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, said that although religion remains a divisive issue conflict occurs when ethnic, religious and economic boundaries coincide - as these factors are interconnected. Nigeria…
Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:05
Malaysia: Threat to burn Bibles - Sultan’s ban on word ‘Allah’
A threat this week to burn Bibles in the Malay language is the latest in a series of attacks on the Christian faith in Malaysia. A note sent to a Christian priest in Butterworth on Tuesday,…
Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:02
Pakistan: Blasphemy appeal for Pakistani Christian adjourned
Younis Masih, a Pakistani Christian, who was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy – he had asked some Muslims to ‘turn down the music’ of a Muslim religious song - and has been suffering in prison…
Thursday, 31 January 2013 17:00
Iran: Ayatollahs make anti-Christian comments
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, influential figures of the Islamic regime, especially Ayatollahs affiliated with the regime, have frequently tried to provoke government and security authorities to take action against Christians by making negative…
Thursday, 31 January 2013 16:57
Egypt: Army chief warns of 'state collapse' amid crisis
Egypt's armed forces chief has warned the current political crisis ‘could lead to a collapse of the state’. General Abdul Fattah al-Sisi, in comments posted on the military's Facebook page, said such a collapse could ‘threaten…