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Islamic State massacres 80 Yazidis in north Iraq: Officials

ISLAMIC State insurgents 'massacred' some 80 members of Iraq's Yazidi minority in a village in the country's north, a Yazidi lawmaker and two Kurdish officials said recently.

Netherlands bans Islamic State’s black flag of jihad

THE Netherlands has banned the black flag of jihad ahead of a large demonstration scheduled for today in Amsterdam to support Hamas against Israel.

I renounced Islam, so my family think I should die

WHAT was Meriam Ibrahim's crime? She had renounced her Islamic faith and converted to Christianity - "and within my community, that's a capital offence," she said. "They believe you deserve to die."
Pakistani Christians protest

‘1,000 Christian, Hindu girls forced to convert to Islam in Pak’

AROUND 1,000 Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are forcibly converted to Islam and married to Muslim men every year, says a report released by Movement for Solidarity and Peace (MSP) on April 7.

Bahrain cathedral will be ‘symbol of Christianity’ in ‘heart of Islam’

Bishop Camillo Ballin, apostolic vicar of Northern Arabia, knows full well what it is like to minister to Catholics in a Muslim region because he has been doing that for more than four decades.

Brunei says 19 Islamic words cannot be used by other religions

WORDS such as “Allah“, “mu’min” (believer) and “masjid” (mosque) cannot be used with regards to another religion besides Islam, said a senior syariah officer yesterday.

Islamic authorities seize Bibles from Malaysian Christian group

MALAYSIA'S Islamic authorities seized hundreds of Bibles from a Christian group Thursday because the holy texts use the word “Allah” in reference to God.

Islamist fighters move nuns from captured Christian village in Syria

ISLAMIST fighters who captured a Christian village north of Damascus have moved some nuns to a nearby town but it was not clear if they had been kidnapped or evacuated for their safety, the Vatican's ambassador to Syria said on Tuesday.
Boko Haram terrorists

Islamist insurgency ‘has no limits’ to its targets, says Nigerian bishop

THE militant Islamist sect Boko Haram is suspected of killing at least 110 people of various faiths across Nigeria during the past week, prompting the country's top Catholic bishop to declare the rebel movement "has no limits".

Islamists loot churches, target Christians in Egypt

AFTER torching a Franciscan school, Islamists paraded three nuns on the streets like "prisoners of war" before a Muslim woman offered them refuge. Two other women working at the school were sexually harassed and abused as they fought their way through a mob.
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