Video - Great speech by Canadian MP Rempel on M-103 & Opposition Motion

Full transcript can be read here.

Islamic human rights - Cairo declaration.

Video - TV Libertés : la christianophobie en France; 90 000 chrétiens tués par haine de la Foi dans le monde !

Dans le dernier épisode de Terre de Missions, diffusé sur TV Libertés dimanche 22 janvier dernier, Guillaume de Thieulloy, qui dirige cette émission alternativement avec Jean-Pierre Maugendre, m’a invité à venir parler notamment de la christianophobie en France. Les lecteurs de L’Observatoire de la Christianophobie y apprendront pas mal de choses d’intérêt sur la christianophobie dans notre pays… C’est à partir de 9’ 05” mais les autres sujets traités sont aussi à découvrir en particulier le dernier sujet qui suit le mien, et dans lequel Charlotte d’Ornellas traite de la situation en Syrie où elle était récemment au titre de SOS Chrétiens d’Orient. HT: christianophobie

Islamic Pakistan climbs to fourth worst country for persecution of Christians.

Islamic Pakistan climbs to fourth worst country for persecution of Christians. (BPCA)

The recently released ‘World Watch List 2017', produced by Open Doors has shown that Pakistan has unfortunately moved up to fourth place for how badly Christians are treated.

In 2015 Pakistan had ranked at number 8 and last year they rose to 6th. Now. Currently, only North Korea, Somalia and Afghanistan, were worse for Christians, but Pakistan is considered to have the most incidents against Christians overall of any of the nations listed. 

"This gives an idea of the increasing severity of the situation in Pakistan for Christians, and why the UK government should give far more consideration to the reality in both funding aid and dealing with Christian asylum seekers who manage to escape, or who do not want to return because of the threat after studying here and so on. In addition, it shows the reality on the ground is still worsening, despite some tentative and fragile actions by the authorities that are sometimes claimed as small signs of hope."

'Movement of Solidarity and Peace', a Muslim NGO, shocked the world with their estimations of 1000 minority girls being kidnapped every year and forced into Islamic marriage. 

Sadly their report released on 17th April 2014 estimated 700 of those abducted girls where Christian and aged between 12 and 25, that is almost two a day and the world stays silent.

Christians are thought to make up the majority of bonded labor  (modern day slaves) in Pakistan with a figure in excess of a million and 86% of Christians are known to be working as domestic laborers, cleaners and sewage workers, with some government and local government adverts asserting only Christians should apply.

15% of all blasphemy allegations in the country are lodged against Christians despite being only 1.6% of the population and two severe bomb attacks on Christian communities in the last two years, evidences the need for better protection of our vulnerable minority.

In 2016 alone we have already seen attempts to demolish four old churches (click here); Two terrorists attacks targeting Christians (click here) and (here);  A man falsely accused of blasphemy for watching a debate on facebook  (click here). A sixteen year old accused of blasphemy for posting an offensive image (click here), A couple accused of sending blasphemous texts to an Imam (click here), a 14 year old boy was sodomized and hung to death (click here), A Christian father was killed after trying to retrieve his daughter who was raped and forcibly married (click here), to name but a few...

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2016: 90,000 Christians killed for their faith in the world. Radio Vaticano

2016: 90,000 Christians killed for their faith in the world. Radio Vaticano. [Google translated].

"between 500 and 600 million Christians who can not practice their own faith in complete freedom."

According to Massimo Introvigne, director of the Centro Studi Nuove Religioni ( CESNUR ), the number of Christians killed for their faith in the world in 2016 would be 90 000 - and the year is not over -: 1 Christian all 6 minutes! As for Christians prevented from freely professing their faith, they would be between 500 and 600 million .


R. - The influential Center for Study of Global Christianity next month will publish its statistics in 2016, about 90,000 Christians killed for their faith, one death every six minutes, a bit 'decreased compared to 105,000 two years does. Of these, 70 percent, or 63,000, were killed in tribal conflicts in Africa. The American Center include them in the statistics because they believed that in large part it is Christians who refuse to take for reasons of conscience weapons. The other 30 percent, or 27,000, comes instead from terrorist attacks, destruction of Christian villages, governmental persecution, as in the case of North Korea.

Q. - As for an estimate of Christians persecuted in the world, how many you are around?

R. - Combining statistics from at least three different US research centers as well as mine, Cesnur, and comparing them with each other in 102 countries around the world, estimates vary between 500 and 600 million Christians who can not practice their own faith in complete freedom. Without wishing to forget or belittle the suffering of members of other religions, Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world. 

Someone may remain puzzled by the statistics because somewhere the Center for Study of Global Christianity gives us this figure of 90,000 while others speak of a few thousand, others several hundred. When the discrepancies are so large, it is clear that you are counting different things.

Who counts people confronted consciously to tragic choice: "Either he must deny your faith or perish", it counts every year several hundred.

Those with a wider notion: not "candidates for beatification" but people who put in mind that they could be killed making certain gestures or practices of faith, speaks of several thousand. But if you talk to people who are killed in a broad sense because they are Christians, then we come to 90,000 ie one death every six minutes.

Q. - you can not fail to mention one that is precisely the brutal persecution of Christians, and others, perpetrated by the self-styled Islamic State in the conquered territories. There are examples of Christians who have lost their lives to remain faithful to the Lord in these territories?

R. - Yes, in the territories of the so-called Islamic State there are several cases, including some that the Church is studying in preparation for a possible beatification; There are Christians who have consciously chosen to remain in these areas and to continue, as they could, to bear witness to their faith.

Speaking of the Islamic state must not forget that the Islamic state also kills many Muslims and that in 2016, according to our estimates, the number of Christians killed for their faith and the number of Muslims killed for their faith, except for the ' Africa, but we speak of the other continents, particularly Asia, is a very similar number.

Muslims generally are killed by other Muslims: Shia Muslims are killed by Sunni Muslims and this is the most frequent case. Sometimes Sunni Muslims are killed by Shiite Muslims, Muslims who do not agree with a certain declination of Islam are killed by extremist Muslims, as in the case of the Is.

Q. - What strikes you most about this phenomenon of persecution?

R. - Two points. The first is that a little 'in all countries growing intolerance and intolerance is the antechamber of discrimination which then in turn is the antechamber of the persecution. And then the calm attitude, noble, many times exemplary Christian minorities subjected to all sorts of harassment but only in rare cases have responded to violence with violence, while in most cases they peacefully demonstrated their faith, very often persecutors, forgiving and praying for them.

Video - Liberal Moroccan Writer Said Nachid: Raif Badawi Is Forced to Pray and Attend Religious Classes in Prison.

Liberal Moroccan writer Said Nachid talked, during a conference of the Adhoc organization of liberal modern thought, held in Rome, about his friend Raif Badawi, who was arrested in 2012 and later sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam through electronic channels." Nachid said that in the early days of Badawi's incarceration, when he still had his mobile phone, he used to call him and tell him about the religious guidance one is forced to attend, including mandatory prayers and lessons in the teachings of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Taymiyya. The video was posted on Adhoc's social media channels on November 13. MEMRI.

'The war on Christianity' - 743 Christians Attacked by Muslims in German Refugee Camps in 2016.

'The war on Christianity' - 743 Christians Attacked by Muslims in German Refugee Camps. (Voiceofthepercecuted).

As Voice of the Persecuted has reported in the past, Christians fleeing violence are persecuted in Europe’s refugee centers.

(CBN) A new report from a coalition of Christians groups in Germany has found that 743 Christians and 10 Yezidis were victims of religiously motivated attacks in refugee camps so far this year.

The report comes from Open Doors Germany, AVC (Action on Behalf of Persecuted Christians and the Needy), IGFM (International Society for Human Rights), Aid to the Church in Need, and ZOCD (Central Council of Oriental Christians in Germany).

“The situation of Christian refugees in German refugee shelters is still unbearable. As a minority they are discriminated against, beaten up by and receive death threats from Muslim refugees and partly by the Muslim staff (security, interpreters, volunteers) on grounds of their religion,” the report says.

The Christian groups believe attacks on Christians are even more widespread than the number of reported incidents.

They call the survey, “the tip of the iceberg in regard to the number of religiously motivated attacks on Christian refugees and other religious minorities.”

“It must be assumed that there is a high number of unreported cases,” they conclude. “Effective measures for the protection of religious minorities (in refugee camps have) yet to be implemented.”

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech.

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dismisses concept of religious neutrality in speech. (Memorandum).

Scalia, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 is the court's longest serving justice. He has consistently been one of the court's more conservative members.

He told the audience at Archbishop Rummel High School that there is "no place" in the country's constitutional traditions for the idea that the state must be neutral between religion and its absence.

"To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from?" he said. "To be sure, you can't favor one denomination over another but can't favor religion over non-religion?"

He also said there is "nothing wrong" with the idea of presidents and others invoking God in speeches. He said God has been good to America because Americans have honored him. Read the full story here.

Video - The case against the Prophet

In his latest book, The Case against Mohammed, Hamed Abdel-Samad presents a fierce assessment of the influence of Mohammed. He portrays the Prophet as an ambivalent personality, with the negatives outweighing the positives. In our DW Interview, Abdel-Samad – himself the son of an Imam – describes why he no longer believes that Islam can be reformed. For more go to http://www.dw.com/en/top-stories/s-9097

'Moderate Islam Myth' 101 - Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity.

'Moderate Islam Myth' 101 - Muslim family are driven from their home... after they converted to Christianity. (DM).

An Asian family who converted to Christianity claim they are being driven out of their home for the second time by Muslim persecutors.

Nissar Hussain, his wife Kubra and their six children said they have suffered an appalling ordeal at the hands of neighbours who regard them as blasphemers.

They claim they are effectively prisoners in their own home after being attacked in the street, having their car windscreens repeatedly smashed and eggs thrown at their windows.

Mr Hussain, 49, has even given up his career as a nurse due to the effect on his health.

Police have been called numerous times to deal with the trouble but are said to be reluctant to treat the problem as a religious hate crime.

Only one successful prosecution has been made, and Mr Hussain said he feels so let down by police he has lodged a complaint with the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

He also criticised the Anglican Church for failing to provide any meaningful support.

Now the family are likely to move from their home city of Bradford to a 'white English' area to escape the hate campaign.

'Our lives have been sabotaged and this shouldn't happen in the United Kingdom,' said Mr Hussain.

'We live in a free democratic society and what they are doing to us is abhorrent.'

The Daily Mail first reported the family's ordeal in 2005 when they accused Muslims of a campaign of ethnic cleansing against them.

A year later they moved to a different part of Bradford to start again.

Neighbours welcomed them into the community and all was well until Mr Hussain took part in a Channel 4 Dispatches TV documentary about the mistreatment of Muslim converts, which was screened in 2008.

They were recognised by a large Muslim family of seven brothers and four sisters living on the same street and were immediately ostracised.

The younger children from both families attended the local Church of England primary school, where a majority of pupils were Muslims of Pakistani heritage, but car sharing trips were soon stopped by the other family.

Mr Hussain said 'word was spread around the playground' about them being Christian converts and their youngest daughter was bullied.

Youngest daughter Leena, now 14, was told by her friends 'our parents say we mustn't mix with you because you are a convert.' Mr Hussain said: 'She was heartbroken and made to feel like a second class citizen.'

Mr Hussain said his wife, 45, and children Issar, 23, Anniesa, 21, Sarah, 19, Miriam, 17, Leena and Isaaq, seven, have faced harassment and abuse on almost a daily basis.

The family were denounced as 'apostates' – a term used for those who renounce a religion for another – which in some hardline Islamic countries is punishable with death.

Flashpoints include an incident in March this year when Mr Hussain ended up grappling with a man who 'threatened and confronted' his wife.

Police were called and Mr Hussain was arrested and spent 12 hours in police cells before being released without charge.

Over the last year, Mr Hussain has had his car windscreen smashed six times at a cost of £5,000. His eldest son, a final year medical student, has also had his windscreen smashed.

Although their faith remains strong, Mr and Mrs Hussain no longer attend church. 'We have given up on the Church of England, they have done nothing for us,' said Mr Hussain.

A meeting, arranged by a friend, with a local imam – who 'listened and promised to help' – also led to nothing, said Mr Hussain. Hmmm.....'Moderate' Islam, many talk about it, but rarely seen. Read and see the full story here.

Canadian PM Harper announced creation of a much needed program to help persecuted religious minorities in the ME.

Canadian PM Harper announced creation of a much needed program to help persecuted religious minorities in the ME. (PMHarper).

We announced a new three-year initiative to support persecuted religious minorities in the Middle East, including Alawites, Bedouins, Christians, Druze, Ismailis, Shi’a, Yazidis, and others who are under threat from the genocidal terrorist organization ISIS.

The program will work with organizations operating in the region to protect places of worship and religious artifacts that are under threat. We will also accept 10,000 additional refugees from the region over the next four years who are facing religious persecution and death.

ISIS’s callous inhumanity seeks to destroy important holy sites and sacred places of worship in its efforts to create an extremist caliphate. Canada will work with the global community to ensure that places of worship and cultural heritage are preserved.

Justin Trudeau and Thomas Mulcair make excuses for jihadi terrorism and have publicly stated that they would end Canada’s mission to combat ISIS and protect religious minorities.

Canadians understand the real danger ISIS poses at home and abroad. We will never risk the security of Canadians, and will continue to defend our country, our families and our values. Hmmmm.....World Champion in defending Human rights Canadian PM Harper.

I was proud to be in Markham to announce our support of religious minorities under threat from ISIS #elxn42 #cdnpoli https://t.co/SDPQUGOXQf

— Stephen Harper (@pmharper) August 10, 2015

Cardinal Koch: Christians more persecuted today, than during the first centuries.

Cardinal Koch: Christians more persecuted today, than during the first centuries.(TA).[GoogleTranslate].

President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity , the Swiss Cardinal Kurt Koch gave an interview in Zurich daily Tages Anzeiger who has published in its issue of Easter Sunday April 5th. Here is an authorized Cardinal judgment on the persecution of Christians these days ...

"Christianity in the world today, is the most persecuted religion. 80% of those who are persecuted for reasons of faith are Christians. Today Christians are more persecuted than during the first centuries."

You are at the Vatican as "ecumenical minister" responsible for relations with Judaism. How good is the relationship? 

The dialogue with Many Jews is at the Catholic Church's heart. I did already know this myself , when I took my new job in Rome July 1, 2010. The first people who visited me, have been Jews. Many Jews view the Catholic Church as a reliable partner in the fight against anti-Semitism, which shows growing market again.

How much are you concerned that?

The reappearance of anti-Semitism shows that people do not learn from history often. We have just in Europe a gruesome history in dealing with the Jews. That on this continent anti-Semitism returns is a tragic situation that causes me great concern.

Israel's policy matter in these aversions?

The Promise of the Land belongs to the Jewish faith. On the other hand,  not everything that should happen in the state and in the policies of Israel, be regarded as fulfilling this promise. The policy of Israel must be open to criticism. And one should not judge any criticism of Israeli policies as anti-Semitism. If this difference is not done, instead of anti-Semitism is promoted fights. Read the full interview here.