Portuguese Last Friday, April 24, we remembered how exactly 100 years ago the last historic Muslim caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, tried to cleanse its empire of Christian minorities — Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks — even as we stand by watching as the new caliphate, the Islamic State, resumes the genocide. And in both cases, the atrocities were and are being committed … [Read more...]
Archives for April 2015
Muslims Forcefully Remove Cross from Church in ‘Moderate’ Malaysia
On Sunday, April 19, a Muslim mob of approximately 50 people rioted and protested against a small Protestant church in Kuala Lumpur, the capital. The object of their wrath was the cross atop the building of worship -- which was removed during the Islamic protest. Rioters made assertions that the cross, the central symbol of Christianity, represented "a challenge to Islam" … [Read more...]
Christians Are ‘Prisoners of Conscience’ in Uzbekistan
Reports appearing in April told of the harassing, jailing and fining of several Christians in Uzbekistan for exercising their right to freedom of religion or belief. One of the prisoners of conscience—Council of Churches Baptist Doniyor Akhmedov—was fined more than three years' official minimum wage after his release from 15 days in jail. Other prisoners of conscience to be … [Read more...]
Obama Breaks Promise on 100th Anniversary of Armenian Genocide
Frontpage Magazine: French As the world continues to look on in dismay at the barbaric atrocities committed against Christian minorities by the Islamic State—the self-proclaimed new “caliphate”—today, April 24, marks the genocide of Armenian and other Christian minorities by Turkey’s Islamic Ottoman Empire—the last caliphate. Most American historians who have examined the … [Read more...]
New Video: Islamic State Desecrating Churches and Smashing Crosses
In the following one-minute video, excerpted from the longer video of Ethiopian Christians being massacred recently released by the Islamic State, militants are shown destroying and desecrating Christian churches, crosses, icons and statues -- many ancient -- in Iraqi and Syrian areas under "ISIS" control. … [Read more...]