Gatestone Institute Muslim Slaughter of Christians Pakistan: A Muslim man set a Christian woman on fire because she refused to convert to Islam and marry him. With burns covering nearly 90 percent of her body, Asma Yaqoob, 25, died five days later, on Sunday, April 22. According to her father, he and his son were […]
“We Are Bigger than Your Jesus!” Muslim Persecution of Christians, March 2018
Gatestone Institute Muslim Slaughter of Christians Pakistan: In a Lahore hospital, a throng of Muslim doctors, security guards, and medical staff beat Christian family members—one to death—because they tried to prevent another doctor from beating their pregnant sister. According to Anil Saleem, the pregnant woman’s brother, once they took her to the emergency labor ward, […]
Death as Punishment for “Disbelief in Allah the Great”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, February 2018
Gatestone Institute The jihadi assault on and massacre of Christians continued unabated throughout the Muslim word. According to one report titled, “Armed gangs WIPE OUT 15 villages in mass Christian slaughter in Nigeria,” several Islamic terrorists “stormed through 15 villages to massacre Christians and destroy their churches in a violent crackdown against the religion…. Dozens […]
“Be Cursed Forever”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2018
Gatestone Institute The Slaughter of Christians in Egypt Three masked gunmen targeted and killed Bassem Attallah, a Christian man, 27, after identifying him as a Christian by the cross tattoo on his wrist. According to his older brother, Osama, 38, the siblings and a Muslim colleague, Muhammad, were walking home after work when three armed […]
“It Was Like a War against the Church”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, December 2017
Suicide attack on pre-Christmas church service killed 9 worshipers in Pakistan Gatestone Institute Christian Carnage and Attacked Churches in Egypt As a reflection of the enmity that Christmas provokes in the Islamic world, “Egypt’s interior ministry … said it would be allocating 230,000 security personnel to secure the country’s Christmas celebrations,” Ahram reported, “to protect […]
“Islam Was a Yoke to My Heart”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, November 2017
Gatestone Institute Muslim Attacks on Christian Churches Germany: According to a November 11 report in The European, approximately 200 churches have been attacked and desecrated in the Alps and Bavarian regions alone. Large summit crosses atop mountains have also been felled and destroyed by axes and saws. “Young Islamists” are believed to be behind the […]
“May Allah Destroy Your Houses and Burn You All!” Muslim Persecution of Christians: October, 2017
Gatestone Institute In one of the most brazen attacks on Egypt’s Christians, a Muslim man slaughtered a Christian priest in broad daylight. Security camera footage (viewable here) captured a man with a large butcher knife chasing and stabbing Fr. Samaan Shehata—including in the head, neck, and torso—in the streets of Cairo on October 12. According to […]
Death to “Filthy, Demonic” Christians: Muslim Persecution of Churches, September 2017
Gatestone Institute Muslim Slaughter of Christians Pakistan: Sharoon, a Christian boy who achieved academic excellence despite years of entrenched discrimination and bullying—and whose poverty-stricken parents had worked hard to put him in MC Model Boys Government High School—was beaten to death by Muslim pupils. On his first day at the school, the teacher slapped him […]
“Clean Our Excrement Every Day or Die”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2017
Gatestone Institute A document drafted by members of the global Christian community convening at the 3rd International Christian Forum held in Moscow, detailed how over the past 10 years the Middle East’s Christian population has shrunk by 80 percent and warned that unless current trends are reversed Christianity “will vanish” from its ancient homelands in a […]
Christians ‘Slaughtered Like Chicken’: Muslim Persecution of Christians, July 2017
Originally published by the Gatestone Institute Luc Ravel, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Strasbourg “went against the grain of Church leaders in France who have largely remained politically correct,” says a report, because he criticized “the demographic shift in France, saying Muslims are having far more children than native French and slammed the widespread ‘promotion’ […]