Persecution Watch Archives - Page 2 of 8 - HEART Christian newspaper
Baroness Williams: “There is no criminal offence of hate speech”
May 23, 2019 | Mike Waller
Baroness Williams
‘Hate speech’ is not a crime in British law, contrary to all one hears in the media. This was confirmed by Baroness Williams, Minister of State for Countering Extremism, last November as reported by Christian Voice (December 2018). Read More
Hunt blames political correctness for “near- genocidal” persecution of Christians
May 23, 2019 | Mike WallerPolitical correctness has contributed to the failure to address the persecution of Christians around the world, says Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, after hearing the interim findings of a review led by the Bishop of Truro that he launched in January.
“Think Hitler, not Mao”
March 31, 2019 | kevin
The crackdown on Christians in China – which continues – has been compared to the Nazification of Germany in the 1930s by two prominent human rights leaders.
“Unwell” Asia Bibi locked up in house
March 31, 2019 | kevinFrustration over Asia Bibi’s detention in Pakistan was continuing as we went to press. Although acquitted of blasphemy charges after a decade in jail, including eight years on death row, she is still locked up.
Ten churches mobbed in Ethiopia
March 31, 2019 | kevinLocal Muslims attacked ten church buildings of eight denominations in Halaba Kulito, a town in southern Ethiopia on 9 February, according to aid agencies Steadfast Global and Voice of the Martyrs Canada.
Herdsmen slaughter Nigerian believers
March 31, 2019 | kevinA devastating attack against Nigerian Christians has left at least 32 believers dead.
Family grieves for butchered dad
March 31, 2019 | kevin
A convert to Christianity was dragged away from his six-year-old son by a gang of men who then smashed his head with a stone and virtually beheaded him.
Bomb attack victim still suffers
March 31, 2019 | kevin
A young woman who lost her leg in a terrorist bomb attack has been told by doctors that she is too old for further corrective surgery.
Greece: Christian refugees “in fear of their lives”
February 4, 2019 | kevin
Ex-Muslims have been assaulted and threatened in migrant camps
Muslim converts to Christianity are being threatened and cut with knives in Greece’s migrant camps, a recent report from the International Christian Consulate (ICC) has revealed.
ns in camps experience regular … Read More
Kenya hotel massacre sparked by Trump move
February 4, 2019 | kevinThe DusitD2 hotel siege in which Islamic militants killed at least 21 people in January was a reaction to Donald Trump’s Israel policy.
According to the BBC, responsibility for the attack in Nairobi was claimed by Somalia-based al-Shabab. Their statement … Read More