Burkina Faso votes amid ongoing extremist violence, threats
Ouagadougou, Burkina FasoAP Fears of attacks by extremists prevented voting in many parts of Burkina Faso on Sunday, as the country went to the polls for presidential and legislative elections marred by ongoing violence linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State group. Election and local government officials told The Associated Press that certain polling stations […]
Vienna gunman rampaged alone, intelligence was fumbled – Austrian minister
Vienna, AustriaReuters Large quantities of mobile phone footage have confirmed that the jihadist who killed four people in a rampage in Vienna on Monday was the only gunman, but Austria fumbled intelligence on him, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said on Wednesday. Austria arrested 14 people aged 18 to 28 on Tuesday in connection with the […]
After Nice attacks, Pope Francis and French Catholics call for peace with Muslims
Vatican CityRNS After a man killed three people on Thursday at the Catholic cathedral in Nice, France, Pope Francis expressed his closeness to the French Catholic community, offering prayers for the victims as well as wishes that “the beloved French people may respond united for good against evil”. The attack, one of three on Thursday […]
Egypt’s parliamentary vote likely to tighten leader’s grip
Cairo, EgyptAP Egyptians cast ballots Saturday in the first stage of the country’s parliamentary election, a vote which is highly likely to produce a toothless lower chamber packed with supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. The election took place place as the Arab world’s most populous country faces a slight increase in coronavirus cases, with authorities […]
Burkina Faso: Fulani pastor brings hope to stigmatised communities
World Watch Monitor The disproportionate presence of ethnic Fulani among Islamist militants wreaking havoc in the Sahel and West Africa has led to a stigmatisation of the Fulani generally, says a Protestant pastor from Burkina Faso. In April security forces went into Djibo, a town in the northern part of Burkina Faso and killed 31 […]
France says stop boycott calls; Erdogan ups Macron insults
Paris, FranceAP French authorities denounced Turkish “propaganda” against France that they said was aimed at fanning hate at home and abroad, and asked Sunday that calls to boycott French products cease immediately, saying such attacks were the work of a “radical minority”. Meanwhile, the President of Turkey took a second insulting swipe at French President […]
Catholic priest held by Islamist extremists for two years, freed in Mali
World Watch Monitor An Italian priest abducted two years ago in Niger, close to the border with Burkina Faso, is among four hostages held by Islamist extremists who’ve been freed and flown to the capital of Mali, Bamako. The new Malian transitional government met the hostages, after Malian authorities freed scores of suspected militants over […]
LIFESTORY: HOW A FORMER TERRORIST CAME TO LEAD A CHRISTIAN CONVERT MOVEMENT IN INDONESIA
STEFAN J BOS, of BosNewsLife, meets a former Islamic extremist turned underground Christian movement leader in Jakarta…
Al-Shabaab singles out 11 to kill in bus attack in northern Kenya; raises fear for Christians
World Watch Monitor Eleven people, almost all known to be Christians, were killed during an attack by the Islamist al-Shabaab group on a bus in Kenya’s border region with Somalia on 6th December. The militants forced the bus, owned by Medina Bus Company (which transports people and goods between Kenya’s capital Nairobi and north-east Kenya), to stop […]
“It’s time to be real: what happens in Iraq is ethnic cleansing” – UK analyst
World Watch Monitor What Iraq’s Christians want from the West is to say the plain truth: that there is ethnic cleansing of Christians in the region and it is ongoing, Dr Tim Stanley told a meeting at the UK’s parliament last week. The historian and columnist, working for UK daily newspaper The Telegraph, just returned from […]