Muslim extremists attack Christian worshipers in their churches all over the world on daily basis. These massacres result in killing innocent men, women and children while sleeping, praying or going to school.
The acts of pre-meditated massacres committed by Muslim extremists against Christians in the Muslim world, has become a phenomenon that needs to be addressed by all nations where Muslims live, by the United Nations, in particular.
The doctrine of abrogation gives license to Muslim extremists to persecute non-Muslims. From the beginning, Islam regarded both Christians and Jews as second-class citizens. Time and again, the Muslim texts, which are represented in the Quran and the second source of the Islamic law, known as the "Hadith" (sayings of the Prophet) and "Sunnah" (deeds of the Prophet), assert the intention of humiliating Christians and Jews. Never was a Christian or a Jew to be left in doubt about his inferior status. And it must be said that, on the whole, Christian communities were massacred and their churches were taken away and turned into mosques; to add insult to injury, Christian men and women were forced to wear special garments in order to identify themselves in public as "dhimmi", i.e. the insulted community.
History of persecutions of Christians and Jews under Islamic Sharia has been going on since the early Islamic invasion of the Middle East in the seventh century. During the reign of al-Mutawakkil (847-61), a wave of anti-dhimmi (anti-Christian) feeling swept the Middle East. The Calipha, Barhebraeus (d. 1286) reports, "was a hater of the Christians, and afflicted them by ordering them to bind bandlets of wool round their heads; and none of them was to appear outside his house without a belt and girdle. And the new churches were to be pulled down. And if they should happen to have a spacious church, even though it was ancient, one part of it was to be made into a mosque.
The Massacres of Armenians in 1915, which killed more than 1.5 million Christian Armenians in Turkey, in addition to half a million Syriac Orthodox, Syrian Catholics, Assyrians (i.e. the Church of the East), Chaldeans and other Christian minorities, who were massacred by the Muslim Turks and Kurds in the region of Tur 'Abdin in Southeast Turkey, is a reminder to what extent Muslim extremists can do to annihilate Christians, Jews and Hindus, if they have power and the upper hand.
In Sudan, it is estimated that more than 1.5 million Christians have been killed by the Janjaweed, the Arab Muslim forces in northern Sudan since 1984. (Source, Wikipedia).
In Gaza, under the auspices of Hamas, Christian citizens, Christian establishments and religious institutions are singled out and attacked by Muslim extremists belonging to the Islamic Hamas movement.
Saudi Arabia regularly imprisons Christians from other nations. Christians are arrested and lashed for practicing their faith in public. No one is allowed to be a citizen in this nation unless he or she is Muslim. Prayer services by Christians are broken up by the police, and people who convert to Christianity are often arrested and may be sentenced to death.
Every single state in the Arab League, except Lebanon, inserted in their constitutions provisions indicating that "Islam is the religion of the state"; or " the laws of the state must be based on Islamic Sharia"; or the "president must be Muslim". All these provisions in the constitutions of the Muslim countries demonstrate disrespect and discrimination against the original Christian inhabitants of these states. Such provisions encourage Muslim states and individuals to commit acts of violence and murder against the Christian minorities. Such constitutional provisions make it possible for fanatic parties to flourish and instigate riots and violence against the Christian minorities as we see in Iraq, Pakistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Indonesia, and other Muslim nations.
The Arab league (consists of twenty-two Arab states) holds meetings to discuss issues related the Middle East, or involving Islam. The Arab league refuses to meet or discuss the execution of Christians and other minorities living in its Member States.
Arab Heads of States and their foreign ministers meet on a regular basis to discuss policies related to the Middle East. So far not a single meeting was held to discuss the persecution of the Christians living in their states.
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Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
The Arab Muslims are dictating other nationalities and imposed Islamic religion on them forcibly
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The Arab Muslims dictated the other nationality (Non Arab people), such as Kurds, Jews, Berbers in North Africa, Copts in Egypt, Sudanese (Dinka speaking) Christians in Sudan, and forth. These non Arab nationalities are still subject to discrimination, massacre, assassinations, kidnapping, abducting and even the Arabs tried to wipe off these entire nationalities and at the result, this massacre had an enormous impact of their cultures, heritage, religions, and their identities.
During the spread of Islam 13 centuries ago even and afterwards, the Arab Muslims forcibly conquered other lands of non (Arab nations), for instance, Kurdistan, Iran, Judea (the Jews land), North Africa, South of Sudan (Christian people). During the Arab occupation, they tried to occupy their lands and to change their identity by imposing the Arab language on them, and by prohibiting their native languages to be used in education. They are still not allowed to name their kids using Kurdish, Judean, or African names. They are not allowed to follow their religions, for example Islam was forcibly imposed on the Kurds and even the Holly book of Avesta was destroyed by Omar Ibn al-Khatab, as a result of this the Zoroastrian religion was wiped out.
These nationalities are predating Arabs in the Middle East by thousands of years. But their lands are still occupied by the Arabs. The Arab invaders established dozen scores of Arab states. The Kurds in Syria for instance have not got any basic human rights, such as Syrian passport, Citizenship and their language is prohibited to be taught in education. The flow of the Islamic occupation has made our land to be restrained by the Arabs and then Arab migration started on our land and then started the unpopular (Arabaziation Policy) in Kurdistan, and in other (non Arab lands), for instance Tikrit used to be a Kurdish city and Salahaddin Al-Aiwbi was born in the same city, but now conquered by them.
The dirty Arabization policy is still in place for instance the Kurds during the time of the former executed Saddam Hussein; hundreds of thousands of Kurds from the city of Kerkuk were expelled from their homeland. Then their homes were given to the Arab occupiers. After that, they became refugees
in other countries and even in their own land in the past and at the present time. The former Iraqi Government did not stop its aggression against the Kurds and continuously expelled hundreds of thousands of Kurdish Jews and Feli Kurds from the city of Baghdad and the other parts of Kurdistan. This is the fairness of the Arabs. Hundreds thousands of Jews people from Morocco left and went to Israel. May be more than a million Arabs live in Israel (the land of Judea), but they have their own passport, they use their own language without any restrictions, but the Kurds in their own land are not allowed to use their language and they have been excluded from their basic rights as human beings.
The Arabs have destroyed our culture and religion, for instance, I went to A Kurdish Art Gallery show that was held in the suburb of Liverpool in Sydney Australia, on Sunday afternoon 4th July, the Art Gallery Show was held by Adnan Kerkuki and was supported by United Kurdish Association of NSW. We looked at his show, it was great, but unfortunately, it was poorly presented and the pictures were not put in frames or glass covers, but the contents were very good and could attract the hearts of people that looked at the show.
Adnan had presented a similar Art Gallery in Erbil (Hewler) the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, but in a better way as he said. His next Art Gallery is going to be in London.
The contents of the Art Gallery were great and he had so many photographs that were taken from Kerkuk, the historical Kurdish city of South Kurdistan. He had photos in the show that some of the writings’ history go back to thousands years. He had a photo of the Prophet Daniel’s grave, but unfortunately his grave was covered in green fabric, and a (verse) piece of Koran was written on it, in Arabic. Daniel, from Hebrew word meaning God is my Judge, is one of the major prophets of the Old Testament.
Next, what I saw in one of his photographs, he put two different photos next to each other, when I realised that one of the pictures even predating Jesus Christ and had a (Minaret) in it, originally which belongs to the old Kurdish Zoroastrian and Yezidi religions. But the second picture had the same (Minaret), but the top of the Minaret was changed and was put an arch which indicates mosque minaret. Then at the result of these changes, I believe strongly that the Arab Muslims tried to change our religion forcibly, and change our true identity by misleading. They stole them and used them as their own.
Daniel was of royal family maybe born in or near Jerusalem about 622 B.C. The tomb attributed to Daniel is located in the Kirkuk Citadel in the city of Kirkuk, (Kurdistan of Iraq), historically the site was a Jewish temple then afterwards, and it was changed into a Christian church and at the end was turned into a Muslim mosque. The mosque has arches, pillars and two domes on a decorated base and beside it, there are three minarets. The mosque is around 400 square meters and it has four tombs which they belong to (Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. As the respect of Kirkuk people towards Christians and Jews was so boundless, they like to bury their dead next to Daniel's Tomb. This famous and historic graveyard regarded as the first cemetery in Kirkuk.
The grave of profit Daniel proves that the Jews people lived in Israel and the Middle East before the existence of the Arabs in the area. The minaret tells me the existence of the Kurds religion and the Zoroastrian religion survived thousands of years before the Arab invaders invaded Kerkuk and the Middle East in general. They have given every right to themselves in our land but they call us Koofar (infidels) or Second Jews state people, and even they call the Sudanese people (Kurds), because they are asking for their basic human rights.
I want to tell the world about the brutality of the Arab Muslims. When I was a child my parents were exiled to Baghdad by the former Saddam’s regime during 1968 and I was living with my grandparents in the sacred town of Berzinje for over 3 years.
The Kurdish people in those days were working very hard in order to build their houses and to live with out relaying on somebody else support. The Iraqi governments in the past had never given financial support such as home loans or any social benefits to ease the lives of people. People had to rely on themselves in order to survive. My grandparents and other close relatives had vineyards to rely on and they had to look after their farms all through the year. You know later on what happened to those houses,www.ekurd.netvineyards and farms, maybe you don’t. I was a refugee in Turkey in 1988 and then headed to Australia in 1989, when I was told by my cousin what happened to our ancient town and their vineyards; they were all burnt down to the ground, including their houses.
The Muslim Arab solders put TNT under the ground floor of each house, and then they all blew up. Their farms and vineyards were destroyed by air bombs and artillery missiles until they were all burnt down and made to be flatted with the ground. Dear readers you decide who are unbelievers and infidels, the Kurds or the Arab Muslim solders. Two houses of my two grandparents were flatted to the ground, my aunt, cousins, relatives and many friends. More than 600 houses were destroyed and ruined by the Arabs and even now people are not able to rebuild their houses due to having lack of financial support.
The Arab Muslims dictated the other nationality (Non Arab people), such as Kurds, Jews, Berbers in North Africa, Copts in Egypt, Sudanese (Dinka speaking) Christians in Sudan, and forth. These non Arab nationalities are still subject to discrimination, massacre, assassinations, kidnapping, abducting and even the Arabs tried to wipe off these entire nationalities and at the result, this massacre had an enormous impact of their cultures, heritage, religions, and their identities.
During the spread of Islam 13 centuries ago even and afterwards, the Arab Muslims forcibly conquered other lands of non (Arab nations), for instance, Kurdistan, Iran, Judea (the Jews land), North Africa, South of Sudan (Christian people). During the Arab occupation, they tried to occupy their lands and to change their identity by imposing the Arab language on them, and by prohibiting their native languages to be used in education. They are still not allowed to name their kids using Kurdish, Judean, or African names. They are not allowed to follow their religions, for example Islam was forcibly imposed on the Kurds and even the Holly book of Avesta was destroyed by Omar Ibn al-Khatab, as a result of this the Zoroastrian religion was wiped out.
These nationalities are predating Arabs in the Middle East by thousands of years. But their lands are still occupied by the Arabs. The Arab invaders established dozen scores of Arab states. The Kurds in Syria for instance have not got any basic human rights, such as Syrian passport, Citizenship and their language is prohibited to be taught in education. The flow of the Islamic occupation has made our land to be restrained by the Arabs and then Arab migration started on our land and then started the unpopular (Arabaziation Policy) in Kurdistan, and in other (non Arab lands), for instance Tikrit used to be a Kurdish city and Salahaddin Al-Aiwbi was born in the same city, but now conquered by them.
The dirty Arabization policy is still in place for instance the Kurds during the time of the former executed Saddam Hussein; hundreds of thousands of Kurds from the city of Kerkuk were expelled from their homeland. Then their homes were given to the Arab occupiers. After that, they became refugees
in other countries and even in their own land in the past and at the present time. The former Iraqi Government did not stop its aggression against the Kurds and continuously expelled hundreds of thousands of Kurdish Jews and Feli Kurds from the city of Baghdad and the other parts of Kurdistan. This is the fairness of the Arabs. Hundreds thousands of Jews people from Morocco left and went to Israel. May be more than a million Arabs live in Israel (the land of Judea), but they have their own passport, they use their own language without any restrictions, but the Kurds in their own land are not allowed to use their language and they have been excluded from their basic rights as human beings.
The Arabs have destroyed our culture and religion, for instance, I went to A Kurdish Art Gallery show that was held in the suburb of Liverpool in Sydney Australia, on Sunday afternoon 4th July, the Art Gallery Show was held by Adnan Kerkuki and was supported by United Kurdish Association of NSW. We looked at his show, it was great, but unfortunately, it was poorly presented and the pictures were not put in frames or glass covers, but the contents were very good and could attract the hearts of people that looked at the show.
Adnan had presented a similar Art Gallery in Erbil (Hewler) the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq, but in a better way as he said. His next Art Gallery is going to be in London.
The contents of the Art Gallery were great and he had so many photographs that were taken from Kerkuk, the historical Kurdish city of South Kurdistan. He had photos in the show that some of the writings’ history go back to thousands years. He had a photo of the Prophet Daniel’s grave, but unfortunately his grave was covered in green fabric, and a (verse) piece of Koran was written on it, in Arabic. Daniel, from Hebrew word meaning God is my Judge, is one of the major prophets of the Old Testament.
Next, what I saw in one of his photographs, he put two different photos next to each other, when I realised that one of the pictures even predating Jesus Christ and had a (Minaret) in it, originally which belongs to the old Kurdish Zoroastrian and Yezidi religions. But the second picture had the same (Minaret), but the top of the Minaret was changed and was put an arch which indicates mosque minaret. Then at the result of these changes, I believe strongly that the Arab Muslims tried to change our religion forcibly, and change our true identity by misleading. They stole them and used them as their own.
Daniel was of royal family maybe born in or near Jerusalem about 622 B.C. The tomb attributed to Daniel is located in the Kirkuk Citadel in the city of Kirkuk, (Kurdistan of Iraq), historically the site was a Jewish temple then afterwards, and it was changed into a Christian church and at the end was turned into a Muslim mosque. The mosque has arches, pillars and two domes on a decorated base and beside it, there are three minarets. The mosque is around 400 square meters and it has four tombs which they belong to (Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. As the respect of Kirkuk people towards Christians and Jews was so boundless, they like to bury their dead next to Daniel's Tomb. This famous and historic graveyard regarded as the first cemetery in Kirkuk.
The grave of profit Daniel proves that the Jews people lived in Israel and the Middle East before the existence of the Arabs in the area. The minaret tells me the existence of the Kurds religion and the Zoroastrian religion survived thousands of years before the Arab invaders invaded Kerkuk and the Middle East in general. They have given every right to themselves in our land but they call us Koofar (infidels) or Second Jews state people, and even they call the Sudanese people (Kurds), because they are asking for their basic human rights.
I want to tell the world about the brutality of the Arab Muslims. When I was a child my parents were exiled to Baghdad by the former Saddam’s regime during 1968 and I was living with my grandparents in the sacred town of Berzinje for over 3 years.
The Kurdish people in those days were working very hard in order to build their houses and to live with out relaying on somebody else support. The Iraqi governments in the past had never given financial support such as home loans or any social benefits to ease the lives of people. People had to rely on themselves in order to survive. My grandparents and other close relatives had vineyards to rely on and they had to look after their farms all through the year. You know later on what happened to those houses,www.ekurd.netvineyards and farms, maybe you don’t. I was a refugee in Turkey in 1988 and then headed to Australia in 1989, when I was told by my cousin what happened to our ancient town and their vineyards; they were all burnt down to the ground, including their houses.
The Muslim Arab solders put TNT under the ground floor of each house, and then they all blew up. Their farms and vineyards were destroyed by air bombs and artillery missiles until they were all burnt down and made to be flatted with the ground. Dear readers you decide who are unbelievers and infidels, the Kurds or the Arab Muslim solders. Two houses of my two grandparents were flatted to the ground, my aunt, cousins, relatives and many friends. More than 600 houses were destroyed and ruined by the Arabs and even now people are not able to rebuild their houses due to having lack of financial support.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Massive New Year and Christmas Attacks In Arab World, Africa, Asia
Investigators said Wednesday, January 13, there has been "a surge of attacks" against Christians since December, with deaths, detentions and destruction reported in the Arab world, Africa and Asia.
Religious tension was "particularly high this season" because the main Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, which moves with the Islamic calendar each year, "almost coincided with Christmas, falling around 27 December," BarnabasFund said in a report obtained by Worthy News and its partner agency BosNewsLife.
Barnabas Fund, which supports Christians in especially Muslim-majority nations, said the bloodiest attacksoccurred in Iraq, where several Christians were killed in church bombings since last month, and Egypt where seven Christians reportedly died in attacks since January 6.
Iraqi Christians are still coping with the aftermath or two car bombs that detonated near churches in the northern city of Mosul on December 16, "causing extensive damage, wounding nearby schoolchildren and killing at least three" Christians, Barnabas Fund reported. "Words cannot describe what has happened ... but we will pray in the streets, in homes, in shops. God is everywhere, not just in churches, Christians reportedly said.
Later on Christmas Day, December 25, armed Shabaks, a Kurdish minority group, allegedly attacked the Christian-majority town of Bartilla, near Mosul, taking over a check-point for more than five hours and tearing down Christmas decorations in shops. "They also tried to enter a church in the middle of the market to perform an Islamic self-flagellation ritual inside the building. The church was successfully defended by its security guards,but four Christians including a policeman received gunshot wounds," Barnabas Fund said.
EGYPT CHRISTIANS KILLED
Elsewhere in the Arab World, in Egypt, six Christian worshipers and a security guard were killed by three gunmenduring a Christmas Eve service in the town of Nag Hamadi on January 6. "This attack followed threats to the bishop who was leading the service, apparently because of his protests about the large-scale anti-Christian violence inthe neighboring town of Farshoot in November," Barnabas Fund recalled.
The violence was reportedly triggered by areport that a Christian man had sexually abused a Muslim girl. Further anti-Christian violence broke out in the town of Bahgoura, Friday, January 8, outside Nag Hamadi, where a Muslim mob "armed with swords and gas cylinders" looted and torched Christian-owned homes, shops and cars. One woman died after being overcome by fumes when her home was set alight, Barnabas Fund said.
"Residents from the village also report that water and electricity were disconnected during the fires, and when the fire brigade arrived, 90 minutes after being called, the vehicles that came had empty tanks."Christians are also under pressure in Iran where Christian leader Keyvan Rajabi was detained last week because he had led Christmas and New Year services at his church, following a crackdown on Christian converts last month, Barnabas Fund added. No more details surrounding the January 7 arrest were immediately available.
Earlier in Iran, security forces raided a meeting of 70 Christian converts from Islam who gathered to celebrate Christmas and New Year; two leaders were reportedly arrested in the December 17 raid, Christians said.
ASIA VIOLENCE
Fresh attacks have also been reported across Asia, including in Malaysia, where up to 10 Churches and Christian buildings were attacked by angry Muslims since Friday, January 8, following a court ruling allowing Christians to use the word 'Allah', in reference to God. No injuries were reported.
In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, a newly constructed church building in Bekasi Regency, near the capital Jakarta, which was scheduled to be ready by Christmas, was attacked by a mob of motorcyclists on December 18, Barnabas Fund and other groups said.
Elsewhere in Asia, in China, Barnabas Fund and other investigators said police detained several elderly Christians in Korla City, Xinjiang province, as they gathered to celebrate Christmas on December 25. "A 71-year-old woman was thrown roughly against a police car. In another incident, police raided the home of an ailing Christian woman who is confined to her bed," Barnabas Fund told Worthy News. "They seized Bibles and other Christian literature and publicly burned them in a bonfire outside her home."
Chinese officials did not react to the allegations, but Chinese authorities have said they will allow only authorized worship, banning "unauthorized" services at for instance home churches.
In Pakistan, "a massive government security operation protected Christians attending Christmas services",but in several areas Christmas celebrations were scaled down or canceled on police advice because of security concerns, Barnabas Fund and other reports said. Intimidating text messages had been circulating threatening Christians with "a special gift at Christmas," which reportedly led to the increased security precautions.
AFRICA ATTACKS
Additionally. Barnabas Fund reported more troubles in Africa where in Zimbabwe a cathedral in the capital Harare and three churches were reportedly raided by police. "Police burst into a communion service in the cathedral,beat up worshipers and forced them out of the building," on December 25, said Barnabas Fund which is involved in aid programs in that country.
In northern Algeria the Protestant Tafat church was looted and burned by Muslims over the weekend, church leaders said this week. It followed another attack against the 300-strong church in the city of Tizi-Ouzou last month, Worthy News and BosNewsLife established."Times of Christian celebration often bring intensified anti-Christian violence, and in the last few weeks we have seen a surge of attacks in a wide range of countries over the Christmas period, said Barnabas Fund International Director Patrick Sookhdeo.
Religious tension was "particularly high this season" because the main Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, which moves with the Islamic calendar each year, "almost coincided with Christmas, falling around 27 December," BarnabasFund said. "The Western New Year on 1 January is also a frequent focus of anti-Christian violence, as it is believed by many in other parts of the world to be a Christian festival."
He said his group had urged its supporters to pray for protection and "those who seek to bring terror and destruction to Christians at these special times will see the peaceful, loving and forgiving attitude of their victims and that their own hearts will be changed."
Religious tension was "particularly high this season" because the main Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, which moves with the Islamic calendar each year, "almost coincided with Christmas, falling around 27 December," BarnabasFund said in a report obtained by Worthy News and its partner agency BosNewsLife.
Barnabas Fund, which supports Christians in especially Muslim-majority nations, said the bloodiest attacksoccurred in Iraq, where several Christians were killed in church bombings since last month, and Egypt where seven Christians reportedly died in attacks since January 6.
Iraqi Christians are still coping with the aftermath or two car bombs that detonated near churches in the northern city of Mosul on December 16, "causing extensive damage, wounding nearby schoolchildren and killing at least three" Christians, Barnabas Fund reported. "Words cannot describe what has happened ... but we will pray in the streets, in homes, in shops. God is everywhere, not just in churches, Christians reportedly said.
Later on Christmas Day, December 25, armed Shabaks, a Kurdish minority group, allegedly attacked the Christian-majority town of Bartilla, near Mosul, taking over a check-point for more than five hours and tearing down Christmas decorations in shops. "They also tried to enter a church in the middle of the market to perform an Islamic self-flagellation ritual inside the building. The church was successfully defended by its security guards,but four Christians including a policeman received gunshot wounds," Barnabas Fund said.
EGYPT CHRISTIANS KILLED
Elsewhere in the Arab World, in Egypt, six Christian worshipers and a security guard were killed by three gunmenduring a Christmas Eve service in the town of Nag Hamadi on January 6. "This attack followed threats to the bishop who was leading the service, apparently because of his protests about the large-scale anti-Christian violence inthe neighboring town of Farshoot in November," Barnabas Fund recalled.
The violence was reportedly triggered by areport that a Christian man had sexually abused a Muslim girl. Further anti-Christian violence broke out in the town of Bahgoura, Friday, January 8, outside Nag Hamadi, where a Muslim mob "armed with swords and gas cylinders" looted and torched Christian-owned homes, shops and cars. One woman died after being overcome by fumes when her home was set alight, Barnabas Fund said.
"Residents from the village also report that water and electricity were disconnected during the fires, and when the fire brigade arrived, 90 minutes after being called, the vehicles that came had empty tanks."Christians are also under pressure in Iran where Christian leader Keyvan Rajabi was detained last week because he had led Christmas and New Year services at his church, following a crackdown on Christian converts last month, Barnabas Fund added. No more details surrounding the January 7 arrest were immediately available.
Earlier in Iran, security forces raided a meeting of 70 Christian converts from Islam who gathered to celebrate Christmas and New Year; two leaders were reportedly arrested in the December 17 raid, Christians said.
ASIA VIOLENCE
Fresh attacks have also been reported across Asia, including in Malaysia, where up to 10 Churches and Christian buildings were attacked by angry Muslims since Friday, January 8, following a court ruling allowing Christians to use the word 'Allah', in reference to God. No injuries were reported.
In Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation, a newly constructed church building in Bekasi Regency, near the capital Jakarta, which was scheduled to be ready by Christmas, was attacked by a mob of motorcyclists on December 18, Barnabas Fund and other groups said.
Elsewhere in Asia, in China, Barnabas Fund and other investigators said police detained several elderly Christians in Korla City, Xinjiang province, as they gathered to celebrate Christmas on December 25. "A 71-year-old woman was thrown roughly against a police car. In another incident, police raided the home of an ailing Christian woman who is confined to her bed," Barnabas Fund told Worthy News. "They seized Bibles and other Christian literature and publicly burned them in a bonfire outside her home."
Chinese officials did not react to the allegations, but Chinese authorities have said they will allow only authorized worship, banning "unauthorized" services at for instance home churches.
In Pakistan, "a massive government security operation protected Christians attending Christmas services",but in several areas Christmas celebrations were scaled down or canceled on police advice because of security concerns, Barnabas Fund and other reports said. Intimidating text messages had been circulating threatening Christians with "a special gift at Christmas," which reportedly led to the increased security precautions.
AFRICA ATTACKS
Additionally. Barnabas Fund reported more troubles in Africa where in Zimbabwe a cathedral in the capital Harare and three churches were reportedly raided by police. "Police burst into a communion service in the cathedral,beat up worshipers and forced them out of the building," on December 25, said Barnabas Fund which is involved in aid programs in that country.
In northern Algeria the Protestant Tafat church was looted and burned by Muslims over the weekend, church leaders said this week. It followed another attack against the 300-strong church in the city of Tizi-Ouzou last month, Worthy News and BosNewsLife established."Times of Christian celebration often bring intensified anti-Christian violence, and in the last few weeks we have seen a surge of attacks in a wide range of countries over the Christmas period, said Barnabas Fund International Director Patrick Sookhdeo.
Religious tension was "particularly high this season" because the main Shia Muslim festival of Ashura, which moves with the Islamic calendar each year, "almost coincided with Christmas, falling around 27 December," BarnabasFund said. "The Western New Year on 1 January is also a frequent focus of anti-Christian violence, as it is believed by many in other parts of the world to be a Christian festival."
He said his group had urged its supporters to pray for protection and "those who seek to bring terror and destruction to Christians at these special times will see the peaceful, loving and forgiving attitude of their victims and that their own hearts will be changed."
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