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The persecution of Christians by the Islamic State involves the systematic mass murder [1] [2] [3] of Christian minorities, within the regions of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mozambique and Nigeria controlled by the Islamic extremist group Islamic State.
The first series of attacks started in October when Christians families were given choice of death or converting to Islam. [4] By the end of the month around 14 Christians were killed [5] and more than 13,000 were forced to flee to Nineveh Plains. [6] The Iraqi government gave $900,000 to help the refugees. [6]
Kasab told the police that they wanted to replicate the Marriott hotel attack in Islamabad, and reduce the Taj Hotel to rubble, replicating the 11 September attacks in the US. [71] Kasab told police that his team targeted Nariman House, where the Chabad centre was located, because it was frequented by Israelis, who were targeted to "avenge ...
Historically, in Islamic culture and traditional Islamic law, Muslim women have been forbidden from marrying Christian or Jewish men, whereas Muslim men have been permitted to marry Christian or Jewish women [105] [106] (see: Interfaith marriage in Islam). Christians under Islamic rule had the right to convert to Islam or any other religion ...
Klaus Wetzel, an internationally recognized expert on religious persecution, explains that Gordon-Conwell defines Christian martyrdom in the widest possible sense, while Wetzel and Open doors and others such as The International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF) use a more restricted definition: "those who are killed, who would not have ...
The lone surviving gunman, Ajmal Kasab, is prosecuted; the book pieced together how Kasab was led to his deeds. The narrative follows Kasab through the bylanes of Pakistani villages and cities as he made his way towards PoK, the attacks, and his capture and incarceration.
A dysphemism for evangelical Christians who believe in the inerrancy of the Bible, particularly those from Baptist, Methodist and Pentecostal denominations. [1] It is also a slang term for an evangelising Christian. Commonly used universally against Christians who are perceived to go out of their way to energetically preach their faith to others.
While Christianity and Islam hold their recollections of Jesus's teachings as gospel and share narratives from the first five books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible), the sacred text of Christianity also includes the later additions to the Bible while the primary sacred text of Islam instead is the Quran.