During last Easter, a Catholic Christian village made up of tribal Khasia people living in Bangladesh was attacked by Muslims. Syed Ara Begum, a Muslim owner of a tea plantation, along with a Muslim mob, attacked the Christian village as its population was celebrating Mass for Easter Monday. The plantation owner reportedly seeks to seize the Christians' land. Hearing the … [Read more...]
Coptic Christians Celebrate Easter Outdoors Because Muslims Forbid Church Building
Coptic Solidarity Due to the difficulties Egypt’s Coptic Christians experience in trying to build—or even repair—churches in their homeland, some end up meeting in Coptic homes to worship (and often are attacked for it), while others worship out in the open. This was the case for the Christians of Nag Shenouda, in Sohag City. For 44 years they have been trying to build a … [Read more...]
Broken Arm, Threats to Family: Price of Reporting Muslim Persecution of Christians
Reporting on Muslim persecution of Christians -- that is, exposing it to the public -- comes with a price. For Pakistan's Shamim Masih, a Christian reporter, that price was a sound beating and threats to his family. On March 29, Masih was attacked in Islamabad by two men on a motorcycle. According to the leader of the Pakistan Christian Congress party, Nazir S Bhatti “The … [Read more...]
Muslims Prevent Christians from Praying in Coptic Home
Coptic Solidarity It is not enough that Muslims in Egypt prevent Christians from building or even renovating churches, but, as in other Muslim majority nations, when Christians merely meet in one of their homes, Muslims still attack and prevent them. After Muslims in Egypt rioted and engaged in anti-Christian violence at the proposition that a church be built in al-Our to … [Read more...]
Claimed as Wife by Muslim Man, Christian Woman Flees: Christian Experiences in Pakistan
Editor’s note: The following account was written for RaymondIbrahim.com by an American teacher in the Muslim world. As I was writing this story, I could not stop comparing and contrasting the life of Eden, a young Christian woman from Pakistan, to the life of my daughter, a young Buddhist woman from Thailand. They are both beautiful 21 years old women who grew up dreaming … [Read more...]