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NIGERIA: Factors fuelling fighting

10 Feb 2013
Violence is intensifying in Nigeria. A Senior Fellow for Africa Policy Studies, said that although religion remains a divisive issue conflict occurs when ethnic, religious and economic boundaries coincide - as these factors are interconnected. Nigeria…

Malaysia: Threat to burn Bibles - Sultan’s ban on word ‘Allah’

31 Jan 2013
A threat this week to burn Bibles in the Malay language is the latest in a series of attacks on the Christian faith in Malaysia. A note sent to a Christian priest in Butterworth on Tuesday,…

Pakistan: Blasphemy appeal for Pakistani Christian adjourned

31 Jan 2013
Younis Masih, a Pakistani Christian, who was sentenced to death for alleged blasphemy – he had asked some Muslims to ‘turn down the music’ of a Muslim religious song - and has been suffering in prison…

Iran: Ayatollahs make anti-Christian comments

31 Jan 2013
Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran, influential figures of the Islamic regime, especially Ayatollahs affiliated with the regime, have frequently tried to provoke government and security authorities to take action against Christians by making negative…