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Worldwide Day of Prayer for the Assyrian Christians of Iraq, Sunday, May 16, 2004 A Worldwide Day of Prayer for the 2.5 Million Assyrian Christians of Iraq has been set. Christians worldwide are asked to pray for the long persecuted Assyrian Christian Community in Iraq. As the original people of Iraq and the first nation to accept Christianity following the death of Christ and the greatest missionary sending nation in history having brought the gospel to China, Japan and Asia. Prayer is being asked for the following: 1. Delay of the proposed June 30 handover in Iraq until a secular...

KANO, Nigeria - Tens of thousands of hungry, frightened Nigerians sought safety in police stations and military barracks Friday after two weeks of sectarian violence left hundreds dead. Some 30,000 people, many of them Ibo-speaking Christians, huddled in six security force installations in this heavily Muslim northern city — site of deadly attacks on Christians this week — said Mohammed Balarabe, a state emergency agency official. At Kano's central Bompai police compound, Mama Aisha, a 40-year-old mother of six children, carried a seventh on her back — a baby whose mother was hospitalized after being severely wounded by a machete-wielding...

Christians say nearly 600 slain by Muslims in riots By Tume Ahemba, Reuters | May 14, 2004 KANO, Nigeria -- Christian leaders said 500 to 600 people were killed by Muslims in the northern Nigerian city of Kano in two days of rioting this week to avenge the slaying of hundreds of Muslims. Rev. Andrew Ubah, general secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Kano, said yesterday he had records of almost 600 killed in three days of riots, many times more than the official police toll of 30. ''Almost 600 people have been killed and 12 churches burned,"...

Burining of the Serbian village Svinjare, March 17Kosovo Albanian mob rushed towards the Serbian village of Svinjare south of Mitrovica. KFOR apparently was not willing to defend the village and only evacuated Serb civilians to the North side of the River Ibar. Albanians made their way to the village, looted all homes and burnde 150 houses. Photos down show all KFOR vehicles in the nearby KFOR base parked and not engaged to stop the looters and arson attacks. A Kosovo Albanian boy posed in front of cameras in front of one looted and burned Serbian home with a flag....

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Since the Krue Se Mosque siege, Chien Kullatham, a 77-year-old Buddhist, has become apprehensive about what may be in store for her and other members of the minority Thai-Buddhist community in the three southernmost provinces. They live in fear. Grandma Chien says that in all her 77 years she had never witnessed violence the likes of what occurred on April 28, when 106 young Muslim militants were killed, 32 of them in the famed mosque of Pattani. Since the beginning of this year, the escalating violence has greatly affected the daily lives of Buddhists in her village. ``We fear being...

Islam and other Peoples' holy sites By Doron Kescher July 6, 2003 After Israeli bulldozers destroyed the foundations for a proposed mosque on a Christian holy site in Nazareth, (Muslim) Deputy Mayor Salman Abu Ahmad and local head of the Islamic Movement said, "I haven't heard of any synagogues being destroyed, but they destroyed a mosque." The arrogance, insensitivity and stupidity of this statement is breath-taking. Would the deputy mayor like to know why no one is demolishing synagogues (except the Arabs, who demolished 19 on the day they sacked the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem in 1948), churches or Hindu...

Today CNN's Brian Todd released a report of the situation in Sudan, where a cease-fire between the Muslim government in the north and southern Christian rebels is taking hold after 21 years and more than two million lives lost. Todd says, "Now in the Darfur region, three provinces in western Sudan, so many disasters are converging at once: starvation, refugee crisis, intense combat and charges of mass murder, mass graves, systematic rape and ethnic cleansing." Andre Natsois, a U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator, describes it as "the worst humanitarian disaster in the world right now." Jerry Fowler of the...

LAHORE The Commission for Peace and Human Development (CPHD) on Sunday expressed serious concern over the murder of a Christian youth in the name of religion. Javed Anjum, 19, of 291GB Village in Toba Tek Singh district, allegedly died after five days of torture by the administration of a seminary in 323GB of Trindi village. Waseem Anthony, executive director of the CPHD, said Javed’s crime was that he drank water from a tap near the seminary. His relatives said the torturers had tried to force Javed to convert to Islam as well. Mr Anthony said that the administration allegedly asked...

Pregnant mother and four daughters killed in Gaza terror attack By israelinsider staff May 2, 2004 An Israeli woman in her eighth month of pregnancy and her four daughters were killed this afternoon when two terrorists opened fire at Israeli cars traveling on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers shot the terrorists dead, but only after an explosive device at the scene detonated, wounding three soldiers, two of them with moderate-to-serious injuries. The victims of the attack were identified as Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters Hila (11), Hadar (9), Roni (7) and Merav (2). Tali's husband...

'New Sharia law' in Nigeria state The northern Nigerian state of Zamfara has introduced a new package of Islamic, or Sharia, laws. All businesses in the state will have to shut down during the five daily Muslim prayers. The state government also says that all "unauthorised" places of worship will be shut down under "Sharia phase two". Zamfara was the first Nigerian state to introduce strict Sharia laws in 2000 and thousands turned out to welcome the new measures on Wednesday. Death sentences The BBC's Yusuf Sarki Muhammad in the state capital, Gusau, says it is not clear whether...

Bishop Artemije visiting ruins of Prizren, March 25During the recent visit of Bishop Artemije to Prizren he had an opportunity to go through the ruins of his residence, the cathedral of St. George, the small church of St. George (Runjevac), the Seminary and the Holy Archangels Monastery. He could not enter the Holy Virgin of Ljevish cathedral because the entrance was blocked by barbed wire by KFOR for security reasons. LJeviska church St. George Runjevac St. George Residence Residence Bishop's study Study computer entrance hall Bishop's room reception lounge St. George, 14 c Residence, north side St. George Death...

Burning of St. Sava's church, March 17Burning of St. Sava church in South Mitrovica. Kosovo Albanian mob arrives, KFOR soldiers don't manage to prevent their entrance to the churchyard. The mob breaks in the church and sets it on fire, then they turn towards the parish home and set it on fire too. KFOR soldiers, with their armored vehicles remain helpless. 01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG 09.JPG 10.JPG 11.JPG 12.JPG 13.JPG 14.JPG 15.JPG 16.JPG

Muslim militants in eastern Indonesia burned down several hundred homes in an overnight attack on a mainly Christian area where 26 people were killed in three days of fighting. The attacks on Christians in Maluku province, once known as the Spice Islands, continues with no end in sight, according to the Washington, D.C.-based human rights group International Christian Concern. Laskar Jihad warriors On Monday, several hundred homes of Christians were burned down in the Tanah Lapang Kecil and Batugantung neighborhoods of Ambon, the provincial capital. The attack began at about 3 a.m. and continued into the afternoon hours until all...

Destruction of Serbian Orthodox church in Podujevo(17-19 March 2004)The following photos show the burned church of St. Andreas in Podujevo which was looted in 1999. However the church structure remained intact and the church remained under protection of KFOR. During the March pogrom Albanianmob led by their extremists burned the church and blew up by explosives thesanctuary on the eastern part of the church. After the attack Kosovo Albaniansattacked the nearby Serbian cemetery and destroyed it completely. An article on this terrible vandalism was published in Praha News:  01.JPG 02.JPG 03.JPG 04.JPG 05.JPG 06.JPG 07.JPG 08.JPG Czechs hold line...

Ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Pristina, March 17-18 The first three photos in the upper row show the damaged block of apartments known as YU building in which some 100 Serbs lived since 1999. Once a city of 40.000 Serbs Pristina is now ethnically cleansed city. Kosovo Albanian mob rampaged through the Serb flats looting them and setting them on fire. Many Serb cars were destroyed too. The building was unprotected. The lower row photos show the burned church of St. Nicholas in Pristina. The church was built in the 19th century and possessed a valuable Altar screen with...

ACCORDING TO THE United Nations, one of the world's worst humanitarian crises now afflicts a Muslim people who face a horrific campaign of ethnic cleansing driven by massacre, rape and looting. These horrors are unfolding not, as Arab governments and satellite channels might have it, in Iraq or the Palestinian territories, but in Sudan, a member of the Arab League. Maybe because there are no Westerners or Israelis to be blamed, the crisis in Darfur, in northwestern Sudan, has commanded hardly any international attention. Though it has been going on for 14 months, the U.N. Security Council acted on it...

ERP KIM Info Service January 21, 2004, Gracanica (21:15) Brother Bojan Dejanovic of the Monastery of Holy Archangels near Prizren confirmed for the ERP KIM today that two minibuses with KFOR military markings and one German military transporter (APC) were attacked by a group of some 30 young Kosovo Albanians throwing snowballs and iceballs while a television crew from ARD German state television was filming the ruins of the Serbian Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity in the center of Djakovica. According to Dejanovic , who was in one of the military minibuses with monk Prochorus, the vehicle was first...

Destruction of Serb churches and homes in Prizren, March 17-18 - Part 1 Photos 01.jpg 02.jpg shows the burned church of Christ the Savior (14th c) Photos 32.jpg 35.jpg 16.jpg 33.jpg 34.jpg show the burned monastery of the Holy Archangels near Prizren. German flag still flutters over the monastery although German soldiers did not move a finger to protect this holy site. Photo 31.jpg shows the church of St. George (Runovich church, 14th century) Photos 03.jpg and 04.jpg show the burned Seminary of Sts. Cyril and Methodius Photos 10.jpg 09.jpg 13.jpg 14.jpg 15.jpg show the burned Serbian homes in...

Destruction of Devic Monastery 17-18 March These photos are showing the ruins of the Devic Monastery near Srbica. After the attack of nearly 5000 local Albanians French KFOR evacuated the nuns and vandals entered the monastery and set it on fire. The tomb of the famous Devic saint St. Joanikije (15 th) century was opened and the relics were burned (photos 8, 9, 10) The holy table in the sanctuary was cut into two peaces (12.jpg). At the end Kosovo Albanian mob desecrated the tombs at the nuns' cemetery 01.jpg 02.jpg 03.jpg 04.jpg 05.jpg 06.jpg 07.jpg 08.jpg 09.jpg 10.jpg...