Probably guilty of a building code violation.
Atheist humanists are very concerned about building code violations.
REMAINS OF PRIEST TORTURED TO DEATH BY COMMUNISTS DISCOVERED IN PRAGUE
Showing posts with label Persecution of Christians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Persecution of Christians. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 16, 2013
Yay, Egyptian Democracy! Let's send them more aid!
Egyptian court sentences family to 15 years for converting to Christianity:
Egyptian court sentences family to 15 years for converting to Christianity:
The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country.A criminal court in the central Egyptian city of Beni Suef meted out the shocking sentence last week, according to the Arabic-language Egyptian paper Al-Masry Al-Youm. Nadia Mohamed Ali, who was raised a Christian, converted to Islam when she married Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab Mustafa, a Muslim, 23 years ago. He later died, and his widow planned to convert her family back to Christianity in order to obtain an inheritance from her family. She sought the help of others in the registration office to process new identity cards between 2004 and 2006. When the conversion came to light under the new regime, Nadia, her children and even the clerks who processed the identity cards were all sentenced to prison.
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Monday, October 29, 2012
Nigerian Catholic church hit in suicide attack.
According to the Telegraph:
Two more people died in revenge attacks, including one man who was burned alive when a crowd from the church went on the rampage. There were no immediate claims of responsibility for the strike, in Kaduna city, but Boko Haram, Nigeria's Islamist militants, were suspected. The group, which is fighting for strict Sharia law to be imposed in the country's north, carried out a similar attack on three churches in Kaduna in June. The bomber yesterday drove his vehicle to the gates of St Rita's Church in the city, 140 miles north of the capital, Abuja, and detonated his explosives when guards refused him entry to the compound. Christopher Oyebanji, a Kaduna businessman who was at the 9am service, described how the church building was badly damaged in the attack. "There was a huge explosion from outside, I was lucky that I was near the door and I managed to escape, but the walls and the roof nearest the bomber fell down straight away," he said. "I saw two people who were killed being carried out of the church. There were so many other people who were injured, with blood pouring from their wounds. It was so terrible." Doctors said that at least 98 people were being treated at hospitals in the city, which lies on the dividing line between Nigeria's majority Christian south and its majority Muslim north. A spokesman for Kaduna's governor, Patrick Yakowa, called for calm as police erected roadblocks and cordoned off the area around the church. People were warned to stay indoors to avoid large crowds gathering. But Christians angered at the attack marched through the streets and launched attacks against Muslims. One motorcycle taxi driver, a Muslim, was pulled off his bike, doused in petrol and set on fire. He died before paramedics could reach him, because the crowd blocked their path. The attack, which took place as Muslims were celebrating the last day of the Eid al-Adha holiday in Nigeria, was the latest in a long string of strikes against Christians across the country's north. At least 2,800 people have died since Boko Haram began sustained attacks in 2009, according to Human Rights Watch. A bomb attack at three churches in Kaduna in June led to a week of tit-for-tat violence that left at least 50 people dead.
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