Christianity Under Attack

Monday, June 18, 2012

Blasts Rock Three Churches In Nigeria, Dozens Killed




Monday, June 18, ABUJA, NIGERIA (Worthy News)– Suspected Islamic militants attacked three churches in northern Nigeria Sunday, June 17, killing dozens of people and injuring over 100 others an evangelist and Worthy News reporter said, citing officials.

Paul Jongas, who ia an Christian evangelist and also reports from the region, said blasts were heard in the city of Zaria, where two were killed.

He said the National Emergency Management Agency confirmed to reporters that 20 people "lost their lives and over 100 were recieving intensive treatment in different hospitals in Kaduna and Zaria."

Other news reports later said as many as 44 people may have died.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Tunisia: Muslims tape murder of Christian convert




Thursday, June 14, 2012 

By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent

CAIRO, EGYPT (Worthy News)– Talk show host Tawfiq Okasha recently appeared on "Egypt Today" by showing a video of Muslims beheading a man for the Islamic crime of apostasy: the "crime" of converting to Christianity and then refusing to renounce that conversion.

In the video, the convert is held down with a knife to his throat by masked men while an unknown narrator recites Islamic prayers that condemn Christianity, a religion Islam considers polytheistic because of its Triune Godhead.

"Let Allah be avenged on the polytheist apostate," said the narrator in Arabic. "Allah empower your religion, make it victorious against the polytheists …"

These vindictive prayers are not uncommon in Islam; similar prayers are broadcast in Mecca over megaphones as Muslim pilgrims circle the Ka'ba, petitioning Allah to make the lives of Christians and Jews one of "endless despair, unrelenting pain and unremitting ailment."


Finally, at the cue of "Allahu Akbar," the man with the knife begins to cut the apostate's thoat: it takes nearly two minutes to finally sever his head, which is then held high to chants of victory as Okasha asks: "Is this Islam?


Recently a leading Egyptian Salafi proclaimed that no Muslim has the right to leave his religion because of Muhammad's command to kill anyone who does; in fact, the first caliph had thousands of apostates killed by burning, beheading, and crucifixion because they tried to abandon Islam after the death of its prophet. Even today, apostasy in Islamic states is still a capital crime.


So yes, Okasha, this is indeed Islam!

Friday, June 8, 2012

COURT: CHRISTIANS CAN BE ORDERED TO VIOLATE BELIEFS








A ruling from Judge Tim L. Garcia in the New Mexico Court of Appeals says states can require Christians to violate their faith in order to do business, affirming a penalty of nearly $7,000 for a photographer who refused to take pictures at a lesbian “commitment” ceremony in the state where same-sex “marriage” was illegal.

Judges Cynthia Fry and James Wechsler joined in the ruling by Garcia, which involved Elane Photography, whose owners, Elaine and Jonathan Huegeunin, are Christians and declined to do photography for lesbians Vanessa Willock and another woman.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

Court Rulings Mirror Fears, Hopes in Egyptian Vote






Death sentence upheld for Muslim, but in another trial, shocking bias persists.
CAIRO, Egypt, May 30 (CDN) — In the lead-up to the country’s first democratic presidential election, a court ruling confirmed fears that justice will continue to elude the Christian minority in post-revolutionary Egypt, while another verdict offered some hope.


On May 21 a judge sentenced 12 Coptic Christians to life in prison for their alleged part in a riot in Abu-Qurgas village, in Minya Province, that left two Muslims and one Christian dead. Eight Muslims charged with the same crimes in the same riot were all acquitted.