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Court in Egypt Sentences Young Christian for ‘Insulting Islam’
In a show of partiality to Muslims who go unprosecuted for like offenses against Christianity, a juvenile court in Egypt sentenced a Coptic Christian teenager to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Islam.
The court claimed that he posted cartoons on his Facebook account in December that mocked the Islamic religion and its [...]
Algeria Stalls Appeal of Convicted Christian
A judge’s decision this month to indefinitely postpone the appeal of a Christian sentenced under Algeria’s defamation and anti-proselytizing laws shows how the judicial system keeps Christians in limbo without officially punishing or acquitting them, according to sources.
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Dutch Christian Civil Servant Fired For Opposing Gay Marriage
A Christian civil servant has been fired by the Dutch city of The Hague for refusing to oversee same-sex marriages on Biblical grounds.
Wim Pijl, 67, said Tuesday, November 15, he would take legal action against the dismissal despite parliamentary support for gay weddings.
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Christian hoteliers appeal against ruling on gay couple sharing a room
A Christian couple who did not let a gay couple have a double room in their hotel have appealed against a ruling that they acted unlawfully.
The couple says the hotel’s policy is based on their beliefs about marriage, not hostility to any sexual orientation.
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Christian rock promoter pleads guilty to fraud
The owner and operator of a Downey, California, firm has pleaded guilty to wire fraud in a Ponzi scheme that collected nearly $ 1 million from victims who were falsely promised that their money would be used to host Christian rock concerts.
The charge of wire fraud carries a statutory maximum penalty [...]
Iranian Authorities Free Christian after Year in Prison
After he became a Christian in the Netherlands, as well as getting free from drugs, Abrahamian returned to Iran to work with drug users.
Iranian authorities were incensed that Abrahamian worked with marginalized Farsi-speaking Muslims, and that he had connections with foreign Christians.
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Muslim Mobs in Egypt Attack Christian Homes, Threaten Priest
Enraged Muslims burned down several Christian-owned homes, surrounded a church and threatened to kill a priest last week in two unrelated incidents in Upper Egypt.
Salafis have made a series of attacks and threats against Coptic Christians since the fall of the Hosni Mubarak regime on Feb. 11.
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Christian council returns torture evidence to Brazil
On 14 June, three boxes containing records of brutal torture and repression suffered under two decades of Brazilian military rule were returned to the South American country from Switzerland, where the material has resided at the World Council of Churches archives.
Brazil was under a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985. The material [...]
Algerian Christian Sentenced Beyond Prosecutor’s Request
Convicting a Christian convert for insulting the prophet of Islam, a judge in Algeria last week stunned the Christian community by sentencing him beyond what a prosecutor recommended.
In Oran, 470 kilometers (292 miles) west of Algiers, a criminal court in the city’s Djamel district on Wednesday (May 25) sentenced Siaghi Krimo to a [...]
Vietnam Tries to Portray Cult Gathering as Christian
The government tried to portray several thousand Hmong followers of a sub-Christian messianic cult as orthodox Christians while the military forcibly disbanded their gathering yesterday and today.
The cult members recruited from orthodox Christian groups – vulnerable to false teaching in a country where Christians cannot print their own Bibles and are subject to [...]