Al-Shabaab Kills Four More Christian Men in Lamu, Kenya
International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 6, 2017, four Christians were killed in Hindi by al-Shabaab, Christians’ main persecution threat in Kenya.
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Christian girl fostered in Muslim home can rejoin family, judge rules
A five-year-old girl who was placed in the foster care of two Muslim households has been reunited with her family after a court ruled she could live with her grandmother.
Israeli MP prays at flashpoint Jerusalem holy site
Israeli lawmaker Yehuda Glick, shot in 2014 over his campaign for Jewish prayer an ultra-sensitive Jerusalem holy site, visited there on Tuesday during a one-day break in a government ban.
UK: Christian child forced into Muslim foster care
A white Christian child was taken from her family and forced to live with a niqab-wearing foster carer in a home where she was allegedly encouraged to learn Arabic.
Egypt Closes One Church, Blocks Worship at Another
Authorities have closed a church that serves three villages in Upper Egypt on the pretext that area Muslims object to it – one of at least 15 Christian worship sites shuttered in the bishopric of Minya, sources said.
Hezbollah says seizes strategic valley from militants at Syria-Lebanon border
Hezbollah said its forces seized a strategic valley from Sunni Muslim militants on Monday, the latest advance in an offensive to oust jihadists from their last foothold along the Syria-Lebanon border.
World Council of Churches Endorses Palestinian Protests Over Temple Mount Security Measures
The World Council of Churches (WCC) has declared its support for the Palestinian campaign against Israeli control of Jerusalem’s holy sites, describing new Israeli security measures at the Temple Mount as a “corrosive act in the midst of an already-fragile peace.”
Islamic State Calls for Ramadan Attacks in U.S. and Europe
The Islamic State group is calling on supporters to carry out attacks in the United States and Europe during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan that began two weeks ago.
Court finds no proven terrorist link to 6 countries, uses Trump’s words against him on travel ban
A federal appeals court launched another assault on President Trump’s extreme vetting travel ban Monday, ruling that the White House never proved a connection between terrorism and the six majority-Muslim countries targeted by Mr. Trump.
Rallies against Islamic law draw counter-protests across US
Small but disorderly protests around the country Saturday raised the worry that extremist interpretations of Islamic law somehow might swell across the U.S. and infect American democracy, but many of the rallies drew even more over-the-top counter-protests by demonstrators who called such fears an unfounded distortion of Islam.
Algeria: Church told to stop worship services
A church in Algeria’s northern Kabylie region where St. Augustine had preached during the fifth century was ordered to stop all religious activities last month.
Algeria: Church looted, vandalized
Last week, vandals who wrote ‘Allah Akbar’ on a church’s walls in Tizi-Ouzou, Algerian, also stole its congregation’s cash.
Trump Calls For Moratorium On Muslims Entering United States
Donald Trump on Tuesday vehemently defended his call for a “total and complete ban” on Muslims entering the United States, telling CNN that there is “no choice but to do exactly what I said until our country’s representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”
Teflon Don: Trump rises again in latest poll
Donald Trump remains the clear Republican front-runner across the nation, and is defying the predictions of pundits again by gaining steam less than two months before the Iowa caucuses, according to a new poll.
Coming soon: More immigrants from Muslim nations than population of D.C. — 680,000
President Obama’s open-door immigration policy is set to accept more immigrants from Muslim nations over the next five years than the entire population of Washington, D.C., according to federal documents.
Jordan’s King Abdullah: We are facing a Third World War
The world is facing another global conflict and a fast response is needed to deal with the threat, Jordan’s King Abdullah said on Tuesday.
France retaliates to Paris terror attacks, hits ISIS command center, training camp in Syria
French warplanes pounded Islamic State positions in Syria on Sunday as police in Europe widened their investigations into coordinated attacks in Paris that killed more than 130 people.
Al-Qaida leader praises stabbing attacks in Israel, offers plan to ‘Liberate Palestine’
Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri released a new audio message yesterday titled “To Unite for the Liberation of Jerusalem,” criticizing Israel’s “attacks against the al-Aksa Mosque” and calling for more attacks against Israel and the West.
Mahmoud Abbas Says Palestinians Are No Longer Bound by Oslo Accords
Demonstrating a new level of tension with Israel, President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority declared on Wednesday that his people were no longer bound by mutual agreements with Israel, including the Oslo Peace Accords, which created the foundation for the Middle East peace process.
Police enter Temple Mount after Palestinians in Aksa mosque throw stones, firebombs
Rioting continued for a second day on the Temple Mount on Monday, following violence at the holy site during the Muslim Id al-Adha festival a day earlier.