TEL AVIV — Egypt’s chairman of the Administrative Prosecution Authority has decided to bring charges against cleric from Al Azhar University, the most important religious institution in the Sunni world, for allegedly saying in one of his classes that the state can’t execute those accused of murdering Coptic Christian civilians.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released new guidance Monday that affirms the agency will protect religious freedom and will not discriminate against any American based on faith beliefs regarding marriage and sexuality.
Senior members of Balliol College’s student body committee banned a Christian group from attending the Oxford college’s freshers’ fair after claiming it could lead to “potential for harm to freshers” because Christianity was ‘damaging’ and ‘an excuse for homophobia and neo-Colonialism’.
Amid growing concern regarding the Islamic State terror group’s increased targeting of Christians in Egypt, displaced Coptic Christians in the country’s northern Sinai claim the Egyptian government is neglecting their plight.
A social worker told parents the chances of their son being adopted would be hindered if he were “christened into the Christian faith”.
An imam who made offensive remarks about Jews and Christians has been fined and told he will be deported from Singapore and repatriated to India.
The Christian owners of Ashers Baking Company have lost their appeal to overturn a conviction which found them guilty of discrimination for refusing to make a cake bearing a slogan which promoted gay marriage.
The faith leaders cite leaked documents from DCLeaks that recently confirmed “wealthy, anti-Christian foundations, following the lead of billionaire George Soros’s progressive Open Society Foundation, fund and “rent” Christian ministers as “mascots” serving as surprising validators for their causes.”
Bundestag member Erika Steinbach and Iranian-born pastor Mahin Mousapour called for much stronger sanctions for Muslims who abuse Christians in Germany at a press conference on Monday.
The Egyptian media has been full of reports of violence against and harassment of Christians all across the country. In May, a Muslim mob attacked Christian-owned houses and stripped an elderly Christian woman and paraded on the streets of the village.
JAFFA, Israel – Several injuries have been reported in a scuffle between Christians and Muslim in central Egypt.
Christians in migrant camps in Germany say they are forced to hide their faith from Muslim migrants who threaten and abuse them. A migrant known as ‘Dena Kasravi’ from Iran fled to Germany to escape persecution for her Christian beliefs. After
Lawyers from First Liberty Institute representing Dr. Eric Walsh filed a federal lawsuit today, after Georgia’s Department of Public Health (DPH) fired Walsh allegedly because government agents did not like the sermons he preached in his church.
