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  • New report finds 168 religious freedom violations against Christians in Western countries

    02/05/2024 9:37:25 AM PST · by Sam77 · 4 replies
    Christian Post ^ | 5 February 2024 | Anugrah Kuma
    There were at least 168 incidents of religious freedom violations against Christians in Western countries between January 2020 and December 2023, according to a new report from the Family Research Council’s Center for Religious Liberty, which documented cases across 16 countries. The violations include arrests and fines for public preaching and praying, penalties for expressing biblically informed beliefs, and punitive measures against pastors not adhering to COVID-19 restrictions, which were often more severe for religious institutions than secular ones, says the study, titled “Free to Believe? The Intensifying Intolerance Toward Christians in the West.”
  • A Christmas Muslim Genocide in Nigeria-4,500 Christians killed in 2023. 52,000 in over a decade.

    01/02/2024 6:31:48 AM PST · by SJackson · 9 replies
    Frontpagemagazine ^ | January 2, 2024 | Daniel Greenfield
    [Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]Muslims celebrated Christmas in Nigeria by massacring around 100 Christians across a dozen communities. The Jihadis hacked Christians to death with machetes and burned down churches as part of a genocidal campaign that has killed 52,000 Christians in over a decade and forced millions to leave their home and become refugees in the African nation.In America, not a single person marched, rallied or protested over this actual genocide.The rampaging mobs crying that Hamas is suffering genocide remained silent. Black Lives Matter...
  • Nigeria massacre sees over 100 Christians dead: ‘Killed for sport’

    01/01/2024 6:16:03 AM PST · by george76 · 33 replies
    New York Post ^ | Dec. 30, 2023, | Paul Tilsley,
    A never-ending massacre of Christians being “killed for sport” is happening in Nigeria, yet the world .. largely deaf to the matter. ... the deaths of more than 100 Christians – as the world remains virtually silent. ... The Christians were killed in a wide swath across an invisible line that separates the mostly muslim north and the predominately Christian south in the country’s Plateau State. .. Christians represent 46% of Nigeria’s population. “There was yet another Christmas massacre of Christians in Nigeria yesterday. The world is — silent. Just unbelievable,” tweeted leading evangelist the Rev. Johnnie Moore ... More...
  • Universities Contextualize Calls for Genocide of Jews

    12/09/2023 8:37:38 PM PST · by george76 · 15 replies
    Front page mag ^ | December 8, 2023 | Joseph Klein
    Excuses - and silence - in the face of evil.. Slaughter in cold blood. Beheadings of babies. Torture. Rape as a weapon of war. All were part of Hamas’s genocidal attacks against Israeli Jews on October 7, 2023. This rampage, which took more Jewish lives in one day than on any other day since the Holocaust, should shock the conscience of any person who has a conscience. But what we see too often instead is a disgusting display of excuses, moral equivalence, and indifference in response to the gruesome violence that Jews, including so many defenseless women and girls, suffered...
  • ‘I am prepared to die a martyr’: Freed Nigerian monk recounts kidnapping, murder of brother monk

    12/01/2023 7:08:05 PM PST · by Morgana · 3 replies
    Catholic News Agency ^ | November 30, 2023 | Agnes Aineah
    Brother Peter Olarewaju recently recounted the horrific kidnapping and torture he and two other monks from a Benedictine monastery in Nigeria underwent, including the murder of one of the monks. Brother Godwin Eze spent his final hours encouraging his brother monks before he was singled out, shot, and his body thrown in a fast-flowing river. Eze was kidnapped Oct. 17 alongside Olarewaju and Brother Anthony Eze from the Benedictine monastery in Eruku in the Ilorin Diocese, tortured, and later killed. Unable to find the murdered monk’s body after days of searching along the river where it was thrown, the monastery...
  • Mystery plane carrying gold, weapons, and cash from Cairo lands in Zambia

    08/20/2023 5:57:01 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 28 replies
    Jerusalem Post ^ | 8/19/23 | Yuval Barnea
    The flight of money from Egypt has become a growing concern as many wealthy individuals seek to move money out of Egypt and keep their fortunes out of the eyes of the authorities. The Zambian Drug Enforcement Commission (DEC) intercepted an aircraft carrying five million dollars in cash and over 100kg of suspected gold at Kenneth Kaunda International Airport near the capital Lusaka on August 14, according to several sources. Found on the plane were $5,697,700 in cash, five pistols, seven magazines, 126 rounds of ammunition, 602 pieces of suspected gold weighing 127.7 kg, and equipment for measuring gold. Later,...
  • Mali: soldiers killed in a jihadist ambush near Niger

    08/07/2023 6:13:32 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 7 replies
    Africanews ^ | August 4, 2023 | Rédaction Africanews with AFP
    Several Malian soldiers were killed in the jihadist ambush on Thursday of an army convoy heading for Niger, in the Ménaka region (northeast), a military official and a local elected official said on Friday..."We can speak of about twenty people if we count the dead, wounded and missing Malian soldiers" , said the local elected official, stressing that the balance sheet is "not yet very clear".Both spoke on condition of anonymity in the absence of official communication from the authorities.The elected official reported that the Malian army and paramilitaries from the Russian security group Wagner were deployed in the area....
  • Iran's Navy Inducts Combat Drones and Ballistic Missiles Amid Tensions With US

    08/05/2023 9:36:00 AM PDT · by MarMema · 13 replies
    Sputnik Africa ^ | 08/05/23 | Dhairya MAhezhwari
    The IRGC Navy has said that its AI-powered cruise missiles would be able to turn American aircraft carriers in the region to “metal scrap”. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy has inducted hundreds of reconnaissance and offensive drones as well as artificial intelligence (AI)-powered ballistic missiles among other state-of-the-art equipment, state media reported on Saturday. The IRGC has said that the new ballistic missiles have a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometers. The other equipment received by the IRGC Navy includes radar-equipped cruise missiles and command systems, intelligence-gathering systems and electronic warfare equipment. The domestically-manufactured equipment has been co-developed...
  • President of Niger: "My country is under attack and I’ve been taken hostage"; Fears that Wagner Group Might Move In

    08/03/2023 9:23:08 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 29 replies
    Washington Post ^ | 08/03/2023 | Mohamed Bazoum
    Mohamed Bazoum is the president of the Republic of Niger.I write this as a hostage. Niger is under attack from a military junta that is trying to overthrow our democracy, and I am just one of hundreds of citizens who have been arbitrarily and illegally imprisoned. This coup, launched against my government by a faction in the military on July 26, has no justification whatsoever. If it succeeds, it will have devastating consequences for our country, our region and the entire world. Our government came to power through a democratic election in 2021. Any attempt to overthrow a lawful government...
  • Niger's leader detained by his guards in "fit of temper," president's office says

    07/26/2023 5:55:25 PM PDT · by Republicans 2016 2020 · 9 replies
    CBS News ^ | July 26, 2023 | CBS Staff
    An attempted coup was underway Wednesday in the fragile nation of Niger, where members of the Presidential Guard detained President Mohamed Bazoum, triggering a standoff with the army, sources said. The head of the West African bloc ECOWAS said Benin President Patrice Talon was heading to Niger on a mediation bid after the region was struck by a new bout of turbulence. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the African Union both decried what they called an "attempted coup d'etat," while the UN secretary-general said he had spoken to the apparently-detained leader and offered support.
  • Presidency sealed off in coup-prone Niger

    07/26/2023 4:51:53 AM PDT · by AdmSmith · 139 replies
    Ahram on line ^ | 26JUL2023 | staff
    Access to the residence and offices of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum was blocked off Wednesday by members of the elite Presidential Guard, a source close to Bazoum said, although the reason was unclear. Access to the residence and offices of Niger President Mohamed Bazoum was blocked off Wednesday by members of the elite Presidential Guard. The landlocked West African state is one of the most unstable nations in the world, experiencing four coups since independence from France in 1960 as well as numerous other attempts on power. The country is struggling with two jihadist campaigns -- one in the southwest,...
  • Niger lawmakers want gay relationships criminalised

    12/10/2022 12:46:53 PM PST · by Salman · 13 replies
    Myjoy Online ^ | 9 December 2022 | BBC staff writers
    A group of lawmakers in Niger has backed a motion seeking to criminalise same-sex relationships in the country. The vast majority of Niger’s population is Muslim, but it has a secular government and there is currently no specific law on same-sex relationships. The MPs say same-sex relationships are against the religious and cultural beliefs of the people. The proposal was presented to the Speaker of parliament by Nana Djibou Harouna, a lawmaker from the southern region of Maradi. She told a press conference on Thursday in the capital, Niamey, that the move was meant to protect the “rights and interest...
  • Deadly protests rock Niger over contested election result

    02/25/2021 6:06:14 PM PST · by dynachrome · 18 replies
    Reuters/NY Post ^ | 2-25-21 | Reuters
    Supporters of the losing presidential candidate in Niger set several buildings on fire, burnt tyres and threw rocks at the police on Thursday, as the authorities announced that two people had been killed in post-election protests this week. The national electoral commission on Tuesday declared ruling party candidate Mohamed Bazoum the winner of Sunday’s runoff election with 55.75% of the vote, but his rival, Mahamane Ousmane, a former president, has alleged fraud and claimed he won with 50.3%. Since then, two people have been killed and 468 detained during protests by Ousmane’s supporters in the capital Niamey, Interior Minister Alkache...
  • Niger to count votes in search of first democratic transition in 60 years

    12/27/2020 5:53:20 PM PST · by Loyalist · 8 replies
    National Post ^ | December 27, 2020 | Reuters
    Niger began counting the votes on Sunday from an election that is expected to lead to the West African nation’s first transfer of power between two democratically elected presidents. Results are expected in the coming days. A smooth handover would be a rare bright spot for a country that has seen four coups since gaining independence from France in 1960, and is blighted by poverty and Islamist violence that has killed hundred of civilians and soldiers in the last year alone. It would also contrast with Ivory Coast and Guinea, whose presidents this year used constitutional changes to extend their...
  • Turkey signs military cooperation agreement with Libya's neighbor: Russian think tank [Niger]

    07/26/2020 7:14:29 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 12 replies
    AMN - Al-Masdar News ^ | Sunday, July 26, 2020 | News Desk
    A Russian think tank reported on Sunday, that Turkey has allegedly concluded a military cooperation agreement with a country bordering Libya. According to Eurasia Political Studies website, "Katehon", who quoted private sources in the Libyan Government of National Accord (GNA), Turkey had signed a military cooperation agreement with the country of Niger, which is located at the southern border of Libya. The site indicated that this agreement between Turkey and Niger will strengthen Ankara's control in the region, as the latter will support African countries, especially the Sahel countries, to be more effective in the issue of resolving the Libyan...
  • Arab-Muslim on blacks: 'My grandpa used to buy and sell them and you ask me if I met them.'

    02/26/2023 11:26:14 AM PST · by Postel · 41 replies
    The Tunisian government's declaration of its intent to deport all black immigrants has prompted controversy. News outlets have rushed to asked average citizens their view on the matter.Here is what this senior tunisian gentleman had to say. pic.twitter.com/xW4kjcpODh— Hanni🏴 (@HanniPunished) February 23, 2023 -Their values are African and not Tunisian. - What do you mean by values? - What? -What do you mean by values? - Their values are not compatible with those of the Arabian Maghreb. They have their own values. -Have you met any of them? -Excuse me? Have I met them? -Have you met them? - My...
  • Nigerian Army massacred children in its war against Islamist insurgents, witnesses say (SMOTHERED, POISONED AND SHOT)

    12/12/2022 1:07:00 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 33 replies
    Reuters ^ | Dec. 12, 2022 | PAUL CARSTEN, DAVID LEWIS, READE LEVINSON and LIBBY GEORGE
    More than 40 soldiers and civilians told Reuters they witnessed the Nigerian military kill children or saw children's corpses after a military operation. Estimates totaled in the thousands. Reuters investigated six incidents in which at least 60 died. One mother described the deaths of her twin babies: “The soldiers said they killed those children because they are children of Boko Haram.”Portrait photography and videos by CHRISTOPHE VAN DER PERRE and PAUL CARSTEN Filed Dec. 12, 2022, 11 a.m. GMT FIRST he heard voices, then the sputter of gunfire. Kaka crept behind an acacia tree and froze in terror. The teen...
  • 90 Percent of Die-hard Boko Haram Fighters Dead, Govt Declares

    12/04/2022 8:52:36 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 5 replies
    This Day ^ | 11/30 | Kingsley Nwezeh
    The Borno State Government, yesterday, said 90 per cent of die-hard Boko Haram insurgents were dead just as it attributed the mass surrender of members of the sect to the death of their leader, Ibrahim Shakau, as well as the operations of the military. This is as the military authorities, yesterday, also said some 1,952 terror suspects were undergoing investigation in the North-east, while some 900 suspects were to go on trial next January. It further clarified that, contrary to insinuations of abortion of pregnancies of female terror suspects impregnated by insurgents, the military was not aware of such development,...
  • Jihadists Execute 26 Women for Being 'Witches' After Claiming Children Suddenly Died (Boko Haram)

    11/20/2022 2:07:59 PM PST · by nickcarraway · 20 replies
    Mirror ^ | 15 Nov 2022 | Rachel Hagan
    The fate of the other female detainees in Nigeria is currently unknown and the relatives did not specify how the women died but the term they used often refers to Boko Haram jihadists slitting victims' throatsBoko Haram militants have slaughtered a group of women in Nigeria they deemed "witches". Last week, around 40 women were held in a village near Gwoza town in Borno State on the orders of jihadist commander Ali Guyile whose children suddenly died overnight. Relatives, residents and a woman who escaped told AFP that the commander had accused the women of causing the children's deaths through...
  • Hundreds of inmates on loose as official blames "very determined" Islamic extremists for Nigeria prison break

    07/06/2022 12:00:36 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 7 replies
    Nearly 900 inmates escaped in a jailbreak in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city, officials said Wednesday, blaming the attack on Islamic extremist rebels. At least 443 of the 879 escapees are still missing, Umar Abubakar, a spokesman for the Nigerian Correctional Service said, while hundreds of others have either been recaptured or turned themselves in at police stations. The "very determined" rebels attacked the Kuje maximum prison in Abuja on Tuesday night with "very high-grade explosives," killing one guard on duty, according to Shuaib Belgore, permanent secretary of Nigeria's Ministry of Interior. The Kuje maximum security prison had nearly 1,000 inmates...