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On Friday August 26, unidentified and armed militants broke into and robbed a Christian church, the Church of Banjasar, in Aden south of Yemen, according to a report appearing only in Arabic media. In the words of a local source, “Armed militants accompanied by youths from the village broke into the church after morning prayers and looted the contents of the church.” The source adds that in recent days robbers resembling “armed gangs” had been on the rise.

Although Christian churches in Yemen are few in number, this is not the first church to be targeted in recent times. Last year, “Houthi militias stormed the St. Anthony Church in al-Tawahi, Aden, in Yemen. They plundered the Catholic church of all its contents.” Later, Saudi forces, purportedly fighting the militants, bombed and “seriously damaged” the church.

For more on the plight of Yemen’s minuscule Christian population, read here.

I recently did the first of a three-part interview with Hank Hanegraaff, host of the The Bible Answer Man, a radio program of the Christian Research Institute. The nearly hour long interview can be listened to here.

From the program's description of the interview:

On today’s Bible Answer Man broadcast, Hank welcomes author, public speaker, and Islam specialist, Raymond Ibrahim to discuss his book Crucified Again: Exposing Islam’s New War on Christians. Hank and Raymond talk about the difference between how Islam is portrayed in the media and its reality; the history of Islam spanning from the time of Muhammad until now; the myth of the Andalusian Paradise, and how Christians should think about President Obama’s denigration of Christianity while at the same time using glowing rhetoric when it comes to Muhammad and Islam.