This page was exported from Quickening Spirit [ http://www.quickening-spirit.com ] Export date:Sat Aug 13 17:31:27 2016 / +0000 GMT ___________________________________________________ Title: Compass News --------------------------------------------------- World Watch Monitor News from the World Watch Monitor website Libya ‘chaos’ makes it one of world's most dangerous places to be a Christian An anti-Gaddafi rally in Libya, 2011.Flickr / CC / MojomogwaiIt’s five years this month since Muammar Gaddafi’s government in Libya was overthrown when rebels stormed his compound and he went into hid Posted: August 12, 2016, 11:27 am Convert explains journey to Christianity, and why he left Iran The Fatema Mæ'sume 
shrine in Qom, a religiously conservative city 150km south of Tehran.World Watch Monitor In Iran, converting from Islam to Christianity can land you in prison or even get Posted: August 11, 2016, 6:07 pm In new report on religious freedom, US government turns its attention to blasphemy laws The U.S. State Department on 10 Aug. released its 2015 International Religious Freedom Report. Required by U.S. law, the report contains an assessment of the conditions supporting, or suppressing, fre Posted: August 10, 2016, 11:36 pm Algerian Christian gets maximum sentence for ‘blasphemy’ Bouhafs’ family said they are deeply concerned, as he suffers from a chronic illness and his health may deteriorate as he goes to prison.World Watch MonitorA Christian in Algeria has been sentenced to Posted: August 9, 2016, 3:40 pm Iraq: 2 years since Nineveh fell to IS, displaced Christians pray for ‘liberation’ At this memorial service, young people performed their own poetry, made music and danced in front of a cross, around which are the names, in Arabic, of the villages still under IS control.Open Doors I Posted: August 8, 2016, 4:50 pm Iraqi Christians confront two-year trauma with drama Part of a play performed
 by Iraqi Christians forced to flee to Kurdistan after the self-proclaimed Islamic State seized their northern town of Qaraqosh.Video capture / World Watch Monitor“Th Posted: August 5, 2016, 11:40 pm UPDATE: Attack by suspected militants leaves 7 dead in DRC MONUSCO forces outside the town of Oicha, eastern DRC, in May 2015.Myriam Asmani/CC/MONUSCOUPDATE (5 August): Seven people have lost their lives following an attack by suspected Ugandan Islamist rebel Posted: August 5, 2016, 4:31 pm Unlawfully detained for months, Sudan church leaders finally in court Kuwa Shamal (left) and Hassan Taour are among several Christian ministers targeted by the NISS.World Watch MonitorAfter nearly eight months of legal limbo, a Sudanese court has finally seen three deta Posted: August 5, 2016, 2:59 pm ‘We have no voice’: Christians in Jordan 2 years after fleeing N. Iraq Bahar (left), 
81, with her daughters, Samira and Bahija. IS beat Bahija and ransacked their home in Tel Kayf, outside Mosul. Bahar's family shares a one-bedroomed house in Amman with another Posted: August 5, 2016, 1:26 pm Families of murdered Nigerian pastors mourn their loss Joseph Kurah,
 murdered on 30 June, and Eunice Elisha, who was killed 10 days later.Twitter: @uncanny_sam / World Watch MonitorThousands of people, including journalists from around the world Posted: August 4, 2016, 5:25 pm Indian Supreme Court rules compensation for worst-ever anti-Christian violence ‘not enough’ Obseswar Nayak
 stands on the remains of his property in Borimunda village, Kandhamal. The government ruled that his house was only "partially" damaged and therefore offered him only token co Posted: August 4, 2016, 3:37 pm Myanmar’s Christian population grows to 6.2 per cent Tower of a Catholic church next to a 
Buddhist statue, Myanmar Nov. 2015World Watch MonitorMyanmar’s Christian population has increased dramatically, according to the latest figures in a supp Posted: August 3, 2016, 11:07 am Nigerian women lose husbands, homes and sometimes their minds to extremist violence For a woman,
 the loss of her husband is the beginning of hardship for her and her children.CCEPIForty-something Agnes, from Benue state in Nigeria’s Middle Belt region, was married to univer Posted: August 3, 2016, 10:19 am Egypt convert’s legal limbo finally brings him 'back to Islam’ During Hegazy's
 periods of incarceration, he was subject to different forms of abuse.World Watch MonitorEgyptian lawyer Karam Ghobrial was clearly distraught as he talked about the saga both Posted: August 2, 2016, 2:00 pm Anti-Christian violence in India at an ‘alarming level’ A message
 is held aloft at a protest march against anti-Christian violence - in Bangalore in February 2015.World Watch MonitorThe leader of a Christian advocacy group in India says that inci Posted: August 2, 2016, 12:40 pm Families ask for help as Azerbaijan Christians detained in Iran L to R: 
Camilla and Bahram Nasibov; Yusif and Lala Farhadov, with their son; Aida and Eldar Gurbanov.Middle East ConcernThe families of three Azerbaijani Christians detained for more than a Posted: August 2, 2016, 10:24 am 2 years after IS drove them from their homes, Iraqi Christians ‘are still in survival mode’, bishop says U.S. State Department Deputy Secretary Antony Blinken at the Washington Conference on Threats to Religious and Ethic Minorities Under ISIL, 29 July in Washington, D.C.Video capture / U.S. Office of Po Posted: August 2, 2016, 1:08 am Copts attacked, forced to settle for nothing, in absence of Egyptian justice Since 2011, human rights organisations have recorded scores of attacks against Copts.World Watch Monitor / David Degner / Getty ImagesEight Christian homes were attacked and an equal number of Copts w Posted: July 27, 2016, 2:45 pm The murder of a French priest has horrified the world. The same thing happens to Christians in lesser-reported places Rev. Jacques HamelEglise Catholique de RouenThe 26 July killing of a Catholic priest in his church in St. Etienne du Rouvray, France, once again has pushed jihadist violence into the headlines. The so Posted: July 27, 2016, 1:55 pm UPDATE: Fresh attacks on Christian villages in Benue, Central Nigeria The aftermath of an attack, which claimed hundreds of lives, in the central Nigerian state of Benue, Feb. 2016.World Watch MonitorUPDATE (27 July): A fresh attack in the central Nigerian State of Benu Posted: July 27, 2016, 11:01 am --------------------------------------------------- Images: https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FLibya%2F4585770&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIran%2Fqom.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FOther%2F4583977&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FAlgeria%2F4582065&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIraq%2FAround_the_cross_you_see_the_names_of_the_villages_that_are_still_under_control_of_IS.2.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIraq%2F4579270&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FOther%2F18338447535_5dfde4241b_z.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FEgypt%2FKuwa_Hassan518_%281%29.png&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIraq%2F4578756&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FNigeria%2F4578092&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIndia%2FObseswar_Nayak_stands_on_the_remains_of_his_house_in_Borimunda_village_in_Kandhamal.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2F518-Myanmar_2015_0050100417.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FNigeria%2F4576520&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FEgypt%2F4576525&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIndia%2FA_protest_march_against_anti-Christian_atoricteis_in_Bangaore_in_February_2015.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIran%2F4573930&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FIraq%2F4573701&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FEgypt%2FEgypt518.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2Fhamel_big.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true https://www.worldwatchmonitor.org/ImageHandler.ashx?imageUrl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldwatchmonitor.org%2Fnews%2FArticle-images%2FNigeria%2FAftermath_of_Agatu_massacre.jpg&maxWidth=150&isJpeg=true --------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Post date: 2012-09-09 01:26:53 Post date GMT: 2012-09-09 01:26:53 Post modified date: 2015-11-14 16:59:39 Post modified date GMT: 2015-11-14 23:59:39 ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Export of Post and Page as text file has been powered by [ Universal Post Manager ] plugin from www.gconverters.com