Yaoundé Agenzia Fides – More than 30.000 people represent a serious humanitarian emergency on the border between Nigeria and Cameroon. Most are Nigerians fleeing the advancing front of Boko Haram, the Islamist sect which has vowed to establish a Caliphate… Read More ›
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NIGERIA: Eyewitness Accounts of Slaughter in Gwoza Attack
VOP Nigerian Foreign Correspondent (Voice of the Persecuted) The Islamic Ideology of converting the Christian community with violence has come to stay in Northern Nigeria. The capture of Gwoza local government by Islamic Militants on 6th August 2014 was… Read More ›
Time To Pray: Islamic State message to America: ‘we will drown all of you in blood’
My Comment: Before you say there is no tribulation, or we will not witness tribulation you should research and see what is happening. All over the middle east and Africa Christians are being targeted for death or worse by this… Read More ›
Christian’s Labeled For Death In Iraq Using A Symbol For Christ
Jesus was known as the Nazerene. Nazarene (title), a title applied to Jesus of Nazareth, the title is used to designate Christians in Jewish, Muslim and Druze traditions He is our Lord and Savior, and it’s hard to imagine in… Read More ›
A Christian pastor released from prison, in Tibet
My Comment: It’s hard to fathom in today’s world the evil ideologies witnessed in the Middle East and Africa, and this is one of those bizarre events that western Christians find hard to comprehend. But travel back in time to… Read More ›
Displaced Nigerian Christians Vow Return To Worship God In Attacked Village
By VOP Nigerian Correspondent Gwoza Local Government Area, Nigeria(Voice of the Persecuted) Brave Christian leaders from Attagara who had been displaced by Islamic insurgents after a brutal attack, vowed to return—resolute to worship the Lord in their respective churches. Our… Read More ›
Prayers Needed Pastor Saeed Abedini Facing New Death Threats from ISIS Terrorists
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is working to secure the release of American Pastor Saeed Abedini from an Iranian prison, said today Pastor Saeed is now facing new death threats from ISIS terrorists who are being… Read More ›
A man who won’t look you in the eyes
Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who enact evil statutes And to those who constantly record unjust decisions, So as to deprive the needy of justice And rob the poor of My people of their rights, So that widows may be… Read More ›
Muslim Mob Abducts Christian Nurse From Her Home and Gang Rapes Her Over And Over Again
My comment: I agree with Pamela Geller, and the question that rings loud and clear is ‘Why is the world submissive to this evil?’ Again we find John’s words in Revelation coming true. It’s time for Christians to understand that… Read More ›
Stop Praying???????????
My Comment: I too pray before I eat when out at a restaurant, and this mall would be one I would stay clear of if Praising my Father in heaven is not allowed……As Christians we are not ashamed of our… Read More ›
What Is Behind The Massacre In CAR?
Photo: BBC ‘Janjaweed’ Photo BBC: Seleka fighters smoking in Bossangoa, the Central African Republic … There is a very dark spirit at work in the world as the world powers vie for control. We all know what wars are waging… Read More ›
France Offers Asylum To Iraqi Christians
(Voice of the Persecuted) Hundreds of years before the Muslim prophet began receiving ‘revelations’ around 600AD, the beginnings of Islam, Christians have lived in the Iraqi city of Mosul for nearly 2,000 years. ISIS militants imposing harsh Sharia law in Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) gave Christians… Read More ›
VICTORY! Christian woman Meriam Ibrahim stuck in Sudan Is FREE!
Please take this moment to PRAISE GOD! At a Congressional hearing held yesterday, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said “a warning should be sounded across America” over the Obama administration’s “virtual silence” toward the Sudanese government’s persecution of Meriam… Read More ›
Christian Persecution Has Reached Genocide & UN Security Council Say’s persecution of Iraqi Christians May Be Crimes Against Humanity??
So the UN Security Council has denounced persecution of Christians. Defining it as militant Persecution. Even including other minorities in Iraq. They issued a strong?? warning that this could be considered crimes against humanity? That is outrageous. What constitutes… Read More ›
Iraq: Remaining Christian Families Forced To Leave Mosul
John 16….”These things I have spoken to you so that you may be kept from stumbling. “They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service… Read More ›
Obama Administration Suppresses Talk of Muslim Persecution of Christians: March 2014
Why is the U.S. downplaying or denying attacks against Christians? “What about the churches which were desecrated? Is this not blasphemy? Where is justice?” — Fr. James Channan OP, Director of The Peace Center, Lahore, Pakistan. Members of the Islamic… Read More ›
Convent attacked in Bangladesh: first such violence in country
A massive attack by armed men on a Catholic convent in Bangladesh happened on July 7, reports Aid to the Church in Need. The attack, by 50 to 60 men, was the first such instance of violence against a Catholic institution… Read More ›
Boko Haram Attacks Relentless in Wake of Kidnapping of Girls in Nigeria
(Morning Star News) – After a massacre in which members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group last month dressed in Nigerian Army fatigues, Christian leaders believe elements in the military must be complicit in the often-unchallenged attacks on… Read More ›
Update ON Chaos In The Central African Republic, Making Sense & Asking Questions
Here is what we reported in January of this year: The Seleka have been compared to the ‘Janjaweed’ a ruthless, souless group of rebel murderers. The Lord’s Resistance Army who also claims Christian roots, and is hunted internationally for horrendous crimes… Read More ›
Update: Crucifixion, A New Islamic Caliphate, And A Barbaric Ideology That Is Spreading
8thirty8, and Sharia Unveiled are reporting that these 8 men crucified in Syria by ISIS are not rebels. They were crucified because they converted to Christianity. They were charged with the crime of Apostasy and crucified. It’s also clear that… Read More ›
Terrorist groups settle in the Christian area of Essa Nagri in Karachi Pakistan
With everything that is transpiring in the Middle East and Africa one nation that the media is not covering is Pakistan. The police are corrupt, ignoring the pleas for help from Christians and other religious minorities. It is fact… Read More ›
Christian mom Meriam Ibrahim holed up in US embassy, facing new charges
My Comment: I am speechless, this ordeal of evil torture and ideology just won’t give up even with world outcry. And I never thought about it this way but is it any wonder that Islam thinks Obama is one of… Read More ›
Five Christians including two nuns feared kidnapped by ISIS jihadists
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had returned to Mosul by car from the city… Read More ›
Syrian Catholic Archbishop Moshe’s appeal to the international community: Save us!
Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh [The city is known by three names: Baghdede in Assyrian, Hamdaniya in Arabic and Qaraqosh in Turkish.] is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all… Read More ›
Sudanese mother is released and ‘will travel to the U.S.’ after being arrested for trying to flee country
Latest update reports- After spending 48 hours in jail, it is now being reported that the Sudanese Christian woman, Meriam Ibrahim has been released, again. Recently, a court overturned her death sentence for apostasy and had released her from a woman’s prison. Less than… Read More ›
Thousands of Christians Evacuate Mosul, ISIS Advances Towards Baghdad
(FEBC) Mosul, the second largest city in Iraq with 1.8 million people, fell to ISIS militants early in June, after much of Northern Iraq was already taken over by Sunni militants. ISIS, which stands for “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria,”… Read More ›
Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim ‘Freed’ From Prison
A 27-year-old woman sentenced to death last month for converting from Islam to Christianity in Sudan has been released from prison. The case of Meriam Ibrahim, who is married to a Christian American, triggered an international outcry. She gave birth… Read More ›
Desperate Situation For Iraqi Christians
Iraqi Chistians are in a dire situation and under extreme pressure by Islamists. They desperately need our prayers. Follow VOICE OF THE PERSECUTED on Facebook and Twitter
55 Members of Congress call on Obama Administration to protect Religious Minorities in Iraq
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Fifty-five Members of Congress today called on the Obama Administration to do more to help protect religious minorities in Iraq. In a letter to the president spearheaded by Reps. Frank Wolf (R-VA) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA),… Read More ›
Extortion of Christians in Baghdad By Sunni Muslims in Advance of ISIS Arrival
(AINA) – Today it was difficult to get through to Bagdad by telephone. When finally I got through late in the evening, I spoke with a woman I first met in Damascus in 2009. Back then, she and her family had… Read More ›