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Our field has shared difficult news from Egypt. On New Year’s Eve, four Christian families in the Egyptian village of Faw Bahry not only lost their homes to Muslim extremists, but four of the believers were arrested when police arrived on the scene.
The reason for these violent actions? Christians had planned a New Year’s Eve prayer service that night in a church still waiting for official registration. The extremists also attacked the church building and the Christians in it.

Indonesia: Angry Muslim crowd attacks Java churches
  • 8 February 2011
Image caption Two churches were set on fire and a third was damaged in Temanggung, central Java
More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in central Java, Indonesia.
The attacks in Temanggung happened after a Christian man was sentenced to five years in jail for distributing leaflets deemed insulting to Islam.

Churches attacked and one man killed in clashes in Aceh, Indonesia

Muslims Burn 69 Churches; Christians Forgive
04-15-2015 George Thomas

Muslim Brotherhood sued internationally over burning 42 churches
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Egypt Today staff, Thu, 16 Aug 2018 - 08:18 GMT


'Horrible': Christian churches across Egypt stormed, torched
By Sarah Sirgany and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN
Updated 0908 GMT (1708 HKT) August 16, 2013


Persecution of christians, wikipedia:


Uptick in church burnings raises alarm in Ethiopia
September 16, 2019 · 12:00 PM EDT

Nigeria Is A Killing Field Of Defenseless Christians
April 13, 2020
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Jihadists have forced 4 to 5 million Christians to flee and have destroyed 2000 churches since June 2015.

Ceaseless killing of Christians in Nigeria since June 2015 and burning or destruction of their churches and other worship centers have followed incessant attacks against them by Boko Haram/Islamic State in West Africa (ISWAP), Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and a branch of Boko Haram, called “Bandits/Highway Kidnappers” engage in roadway abductions and armed robberies and house to house lootings, all for the purpose of radical propagation of Islam and raising of ‘blood funds’ for themselves and advancement of their terror activities.

The number of Nigerian Northern Christians forced to flee their ancestral homes, farmlands and sacred places of worship in order to escape being murdered or raped has sharply risen from “over 1.3 million in 2014” (Open Doors Report 2015) to between 4 million and 5 million. The affected population has fled the countryside or relocated to less risky capital cities in Northern Nigeria or cities and communities in the Southeast, South, and Southwest parts of the country. They have become “urban refugees”.

The number of people fleeing Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and Boko Haram are presently estimated at 3 million, rising from 2.6 million in 2017.  They have become internally displaced persons and refugees in Northern Nigeria.  Most are Christians.  Among the refugees are some 90,000 Christian Nigerian refugees from Borno’s Gwoza alone, presently in Cameroon. Also fleeing the Islamic jihad in the North are sizeable numbers of the Igbo Christian population resident in the North.  They have now resettled in the Southeast and the South of the country.

The number of churches and other Christian worship centers destroyed or burnt since June 2015 in the North has also risen to over 2000. Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen account for over 1500 of the church burnings.  Boko Haram accounts for 500 others. Churches destroyed or burnt by Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen have been concentrated in Benue, Plateau and Southern Kaduna states.

In eight years, between 2011 and 2019, Benue State has lost over 600 churches and other Christian worship centers to Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen. By the account of Open Doors International, “over 13,000 churches and 1,500 Christian schools were destroyed or burnt; with 11,500-12,500 Christians killed and over 1.3 million forced to flee their homes to escape being murdered by Boko Haram Jihadists between 2009 and 2014”.
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The attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group against Christians on Easter morning in Sri Lanka last month fall into a long-established pattern. Back when the Islamic State was expanding in northern Iraq in 2014 and 2015, the region’s 1 million Christians were some of its main targets, as well as Yazidis, Shiite Muslims, and other religious minorities. Churches were razed and Christians issued with an ultimatum: exile, conversion, or death.
The end result has been a brutal and depressingly thorough religious and ethnic cleansing. For the Islamic State, destroying churches and killing Christians came second only to its top priority of killing other so-called apostate Muslims—Shiite and Sufi Muslims in particular. But although the Islamic State claimed to be acting in the name of Islam, its actions were not only horrific but also clearly and universally recognized as blasphemy.
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Indonesia: Angry Muslim crowd attacks Java churches,m8 February 2011
Image caption Two churches were set on fire and a third was damaged in Temanggung, central Java
More than 1,000 Muslim protesters have stormed a courthouse and burned two churches in central Java, Indonesia.

Christianity crackdown: Crosses forcibly removed – church burned
CHRISTIANS in Pakistan were forced to remove a cross from their church after threats from local Muslims.
PUBLISHED: 07:13, Fri, Jul 17, 2020 | UPDATED: 07:57, Fri, Jul 17, 2020


Muslims in Europe are ill-advised to convert churches into mosques
The trend of buying churches and turning them into mosques is giving the extreme right in Europe one more card to consolidate its dominance over Europe by inciting hostility against Muslims.
Sunday 16/06/2019

Irresponsible acts, with no thought given to their consequences, by members of Europe’s Muslim communities are fuelling hatred and violence. The trend of buying churches and turning them into mosques is giving the extreme right in Europe one more card to consolidate its dominance over Europe by inciting hostility against Muslims.
The controversy sparked in Germany about Muslim communities buying churches to convert them into mosques revealed the communities’ lack of understanding of the turbulent situation of European society and the rise of Islamophobia.
A Christian association called Friends of the Protestant Church in Berlin published a report on the conversion of ten churches this year in Germany into mosques. It said the phenomenon was not new but it was repeated and deliberate.
At the end of 2018, the Nur Mosque was inaugurated in Hamburg after a Muslim investor bought a church and donated it to the Islamic centre of the city. Similar actions were carried out in the Netherlands, Britain and France. The most prominent examples of the actions were the openings of Al Fateh Mosque in Amsterdam, the Sultan Ayoub Mosque and the Osman Ghazi Mosque in the Netherlands. In France, the Dominican Church in Lille and the Saint Joseph Church in Paris have been turned into mosques.
The association said: “What the Muslims are doing is not wise behaviour.”
This controversy serves to highlight the great crisis experienced by Muslim communities in Europe as they were joined by recent waves of immigrants. More and more, the communities are coming under the fire of angry populist right-wing politicians in Europe.
The controversy raised by the behaviour of some members of the Muslim communities, which some see as a provocative gift that stimulates the birth of more extreme right-wing, anti-Muslim discourse, comes at a time when anti-Muslim rhetoric based on the concept of Islamophobia is on the rise in Europe in conjunction with an increase of anti-immigration discourse by populist political parties.

Vakre Kirker og synagoger i muslimske land:


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Kosovo rioters burn Serb churches
Serbian church being burned in Mitrovica
Religious symbols are bearing the brunt of the violence
Mobs of angry Albanians in Kosovo have burned Serbian Orthodox churches and homes on a second day of violence which is showing no sign of a let-up.
The attacks came as Nato announced it was sending another 1,000 troops to reinforce the 18,500 already there.
At least 31 people have died in the worst violence since the 1999 Kosovo war and about 500 have been injured.
The UN Security Council meeting in a special session is expected to condemn the violence and urge calm.
Trouble erupted in the divided city of Mitrovica after the deaths of two Albanian children, blamed on members of the province's small ethnic Serbian community.
As attacks multiplied, angry demonstrators over the border in Serbia itself responded by burning several mosques.
International staff have been relocated from Mitrovica as a result of the violence, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan told the Security Council meeting.
Calls not heeded
A Serb Orthodox church in the heart of Pristina was the target of the latest attack on Thursday evening.
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Earlier, Albanians managed to get past Nato peacekeepers to set fire to churches in Mitrovica and the town of Obilic, west Pristina, where about 100 local Serbs had to be evacuated.
Crowds of Albanians were also reported to be trying to storm a church being protected by Finnish peacekeepers in the central town of Lipljan.
Nato troops had to use teargas against Albanian protesters seeking to march on the village of Caglavica, south of Pristina, for the second day on Thursday.
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HAVE YOUR SAY
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Flights in and out of Kosovo have been suspended and internal boundaries with Serbia have been closed.
Nato officials insist that the alliance and the United Nations, which administers the province, are committed to quelling tensions.
But the top commander of the Nato-led force in Kosovo, known as K-For, has authorised the troops to use force if necessary.
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KOSOVO: KEY DATES
24 Sept 1998: Nato issues ultimatum to Milosevic to stop crackdown on Kosovo Albanians
24 Mar 1999: Nato begins air strikes against Yugoslavia over Kosovo
10 June 1999: Air strikes suspended after Milosevic agrees to withdraw troops. UN approves peace plan for Kosovo, establishes K-For peace force
11 June 1999: Nato troops enter Kosovo
10 Dec 2003: UN unveils road map on conditions Kosovo must meet by mid-2005 for talks on final status
17 Mar 2004: Serbs and Albanians clash in the worst violence seen since 1999
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The European Union has called on local leaders to rein in the violence - and the main Kosovo Albanian political parties have issued a statement urging their supporters to call off the protests.
Mr Annan urged co-operation with the international presence in Kosovo, but his message was aimed primarily at the Kosovo Albanian leaders, who - as the largest ethnic group - had a responsibility "to protect and promote the rights of all people within Kosovo, particularly its minorities".
Serbia has condemned both Nato and the UN for failing to protect the Serb minority in the province.
Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica has described the attacks as "planned in advance and co-ordinated... this was an attempted pogrom and ethnic cleansing" against Kosovo's Serbs.
He has called for a state of emergency to be imposed in Kosovo.
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mosques and other Islamic buildings on Wednesday.



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List of religious buildings demaged or destroyed in 1999
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Albanian Muslims destroying and burn Serbian Church in Kosovo

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