Tag: Burial

Christians fleeing Pakistan are stuck in Thailand

March 4, 2016 Asylum seekers, Bangkok, Burial, Gojra, Lord Alton, Pakistan, Singapore, Thailand, UK, UN

A Thai immigration police officer directs Pakistani refugees released on bail to a waiting bus after their detention at the Immigration detention centre in Bangkok in June 2011. AFP PHOTO/ Nicolas ASFOURI / Getty Images What just happened A group of members of Britain’s Parliament on 24 Feb. urged their . . . Read More

Christian murders continue in Bangladesh

January 14, 2016 Bangladesh Bangladesh, Burial, Islamic extremism, Jamaat-ul-Mujahedin Bangladesh

The killing of a 75-year-old pastor on 6 January by Islamic extremists is the latest in a series of attacks on Bangladesh minorities. A group claiming to be the Islamic State claimed responsibility for Pastor Khaza Somiruddin’s murder, in addition to a series of , death threats and in the . . . Read More

Nepal earthquake revives burial debate

May 8, 2015 Nepal Burial, Hindu nationalism, Nepal

With nearly 8,000 dead from Nepal’s worst earthquake since 1934 the relief effort has turned to recovery and finding the 400 missing people. The quake struck on Saturday morning, the time when many Christian church services were taking place. Many of the estimated 150 Christians killed died when the buildings . . . Read More

Nepal’s long-delayed transition to democracy worries its Christians

April 27, 2015 Nepal Burial, Constitution, Kathmandu, Maoists, Sushil Koirala

As Nepal struggles to respond to the massive earthquake and aftershocks during the weekend that left thousands dead, the world has offered aid to a country which is still one of the poorest and most isolated in Asia, despite its attractive image for mountaineers and Western backpackers. It’s still overcoming . . . Read More

Algerian Christian refused burial in public cemetery

February 5, 2014 Algeria Bejaia, Burial, Islamic extremism, Kabylie, Ramadan, Tizi Ouzou

A Christian family in Algeria has been refused permission to bury their son in the local public cemetery because he was not a Muslim. “The leaders of the mosque demanded that I would have to follow Islamic burial rites if I was to bury my son in the cemetery,” said . . . Read More

Nigeria – Taraba State violence over funeral procession leaves at least 39 dead

May 13, 2013 Nigeria Burial, Jukun, Nigeria, Taraba

Security forces have been enforcing a 24-hour curfew in Wukari, Taraba State in Central Nigeria to prevent the escalation of violence between Christians and Muslims on Friday 3 May that left at least 39 people dead and at least 30 injured. The bloody clash between the majority Christian Jukun community . . . Read More

Finally, Istanbul gives Syriac Christians a place to build: a cemetery

December 18, 2012 Turkey Burial, Churches, Istanbul, Mardin, Midyat, Mor Gabriel Monastery, Turkey

Three years after a Syrian Orthodox foundation applied to build a church in Istanbul, the Greater Istanbul Municipality has granted them a large plot of land and a building permit. Banner headlines in the Turkish media praised the early-December decision as “a first in the history of the Republic,” declaring . . . Read More

Christians bury a brother, then exhume his body after Hindus protest

August 31, 2012 India Burial, Chhattisgarh, Hindu nationalism, India

Hindus angry at the burial of a former Christian pastor in a new cemetery Thursday forced church members to exhume his body, church leaders said. The body was buried again Thursday in an older, Christian cemetery that already is full and prone to flooding during India’s monsoons, now in full . . . Read More

Indian Christians forced into Hindu worship, driven from homes

July 17, 2012 India Anti-conversion law, Burial, Chhattisgarh, Hindu nationalism, India

JAWANGA, Chhattisgarh state, India, July 17 (World Watch Monitor) – Hindu extremists forced 15 Christians to participate in Hindu worship rituals, then beat them up and rousted them from their village, according to an evangelical organization in India. The Evangelical Fellowship of India said that on June 19, 150 Hindus . . . Read More

India briefs: recent incidents of persecution

June 29, 2012 India Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Burial, Chhattisgarh, Himachal Pradesh, India, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Sangh Parivar

Police arrested three Christians on charges of “abetment of a thing” in Hubli, after Hindu extremists verbally abused them and seized tracts from them on June 21. The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) reported that at about 2:30 p.m. Pastor Manju Nath and two Christians identified only as Stella . . . Read More

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