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Persecution Update for 2004
Persecuted
Church Links 2004
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HOW LONG WILL THE WORLD TOLERATE VANDALISM
DONE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE NATO FORCES ?
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Al-Qaeda's
Links in the Balkans that have been traced to Seattle
That
being the case - why wear uniforms and also masks? What good would masks do?
Masks hide the personal identity of the wearer - but in this situation, what
difference would personal identity make? The Albanians were being driven out,
supposedly; were they likely to hunt down individual Serbian policemen? If
these really were Serbian policemen, and the Serbian government wanted to deny their
involvement, wouldn't the important thing be to disguise their identity as
Serbian policemen? So why in heaven's name would they wear Serbian police
uniforms? The Western media has said a lot of bad things about the Serbian
police, but nobody has said they were stupid.
The
whole thing made no sense to me and I learned from Sherlock Holmes that you
should always look for the explanation that does make sense. The sensible
explanation for the mix of uniforms (to reveal Serbian identity) and masks (to
hide personal identity) was that the "cops" were not Serbs at all.
They were in fact members of the Kosovo Liberation Army trying to stage a
refugee disaster for NATO cameras to show the world how terrible the Serbs
were, thereby producing support for the bombing of Yugoslavia. In that case
there would be every reason to wear the Serbian uniforms and every reason to
hide their faces from fellow Albanians who might recognize them as members of
the KLA and spill the beans when they were interviewed.
www.tenc.net
<http://www.tenc.net> Main Page
Great about Kosovo Truth,,,,,
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Germans debating the truth of KOSOVO,,,,
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FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
ABUSES
AGAINST SERBS AND ROMA IN THE NEW KOSOVO
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http://www.insightmag.com/news/256955.html
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on Al-Qaeda's involvement in Balkans and Kosovo
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Mission
Network News reports the following incidents of Christians suffering
persecution.
India:
Persecution
makes the secular news
Two
major newspapers in India are now revealing escalating persecution of
Christians in that predominately Hindu nation. According to Mission India of
Grand Rapids, Michigan, this is important because until now this has gone
mostly unreported in the secular press. They're reporting at least 50 attacks
against Christians in Karnataka alone. Mission India supports more than 500
workers, and they're being attacked at a rate of one or two each month.
India:
Christians
fear activist activities.
The
Hindu extremists, Bajrang Dal, appear to be in military training, according to
news reports. Many Christians believe they could be the targeted by such
activity, because anti-Christian violence is on the rise. This is especially
true in the Indian states where anti-conversion laws exist. Most recently,
police say Bajrang Dal activists were involved in an attack on a group of
Christians in Central Gujarat early this week.
Please
see
<http://www.mnnonline.org>
for
missions news and a weekday audio broadcast.
Christian
Aid Mission presents these persecution reports.
Vietnam:
Another
church destroyed; believers defend parsonage
Vietnam
authorities have again destroyed a local church building, but courageous
believers, placing their lives on the line, prevented the destruction of their
pastor's house.
In
a report received on July 1, Christian Aid learned that local authorities of
Phuoc Hau village in the Ninh Phuoc district of Ninh Thbuan province came and
removed the roof of the Phuoc Dong Evangelical Church in mid-June. They
returned with a bulldozer on June 22 and destroyed the remaining walls and
structure of the 200-member church meeting hall.
They
came back again the next day to destroy the parsonage of the pastor, Luong Vinh
Quoc. The believers, who belong to the Cham tribe, resisted the police and
formed a human ring around the parsonage saying, "If you want to destroy
this house you will have to kill us first."
There
has been no word on what has happened since. However, on May 25 the police
confiscated a motorcycle and a sewing machine from Pastor Huong's house in
Eakar village of Dac Lac province in the Central Highlands as a fine for his
having Bibles and Christian literature in his house.
On
May 26 police in Dong Nai province near Ho Chi Minh City sentenced pastor Than
Van Trung of Long Khanh village to four months in prison because they found
Bibles in his church meeting place.
India:
Kashmir
Protestant school attacked (update)
A
school attacked in Kashmir in late May, said to be a Catholic School, was in
fact a Protestant school, according to recent reports received by Christian
Aid.
In
early June various media reported the attack that occurred on May 22 near the
main entrance of Saint Luke's Convent School in Nai Basti, 50 km. from
Srinagar. The explosion killed one of the female teachers and seriously wounded
another. The report called the victims "nuns."
But
Christian Aid has learned that the school was indeed a private school run by
the son of one of the converts of an evangelical ministry assisted by Christian
Aid. The leader, who now directs his ministry from a location in Uttar Pradesh
state, for years worked out of Udhampur in Kashmir, and was, in fact, in
Kashmir when the attack occurred.
"It
was a private school run by one of our boys named Luke who was the son of one
of our believers near Doda," he told Christian Aid last week. "The
father was converted through the ministry of WEC missionaries, and when they
left, the family fellowshipped with us. He had four sons, whom he named Mathi,
Marcus, Luka and Youhanna [Mattthew, Mark, Luke and John].
"Luka
got a teaching job in an Anglican mission school in Srinagar and then left
there to start his own school in Ananthanag, about 60 km. from Srinagar. He
named it St. Luke's Convent School."
He
went on to explain: "Christian schools have always had a high standard of
education in our country. It has become a fashion now in India that even Hindu
schools use the name `convent' and `mission' in their schools, and also all
sorts of `saints,' to show that it is a good school.
"The
school was coming up fairly well when this incident happened. The teachers who
were wounded and killed were not Catholic sisters; they were single, Protestant
girls.
"It
was a big shock and loss for all of them and all Christians, but now the school
continues functioning as before."
And
now you know "the rest of the story."
The
leader who provided that information has an extensive church-planting ministry
all across the Himalaya Range from Kashmir in the West to Myanmar in the East
and celebrates 50 years of personal ministry this year. Persons wishing to know
more information about that ministry may write to insider@christianaid.org
<mailto:insider@christianaid.org> and put MI-426 660-HEM on the subject
line.
Please
go to <www.christianaid.org>.to read fascinating missions reports.
Forum
18 news reports these persecution incidents.
Georgia:
Baptists
deny they burnt down own church
Baptist
leader Malkhaz Songulashvili has described as "silly" a suggestion to
Forum 18 News Service by district governor Timur Berianidze that Baptists in
the village of Akhalsopeli burnt down their own church. Berianidze described as
"a lie" the widely-held view that the local Orthodox priest Bessarion
Zurabashvili was involved. Songulashvili said Fr Bessarion keeps visiting
families and "stirs them up against our people". Villagers have
threatened the Baptists that they will never be allowed to rebuild their church
and if they do so, they warn that it will be burnt down again. Anglican
Archbishop Rowan Williams and Pope John Paul II are among those who have
condemned ongoing religious violence in Georgia.
Kosovo:
Further
attacks on Orthodox sites
An
Orthodox church in Pristina attacked in May was again stoned late on 26 June,
while tombstones in an Orthodox graveyard in Kosovska Vitina have been
destroyed. "This latest wave of attacks is further proof that Albanian
extremists are using all means to intimidate and throw out of Kosovo the
remaining Serbian population, while the international community is doing little
to prevent it," Fr Sava (Janjic), deputy abbot of the Decani Monastery,
told Forum 18 News Service. After the May attack on St Nicholas' Church, KFOR
spokesman Garry Bannister-Green told Forum 18 that "KFOR deplores all such
acts of mindless vandalism". He denied that removing the KFOR guard had
threatened the church's security.
Russia:
State
opposition to Kostroma Pentecostals continues
In
the latest incident of what Pastor Andrei Danilov regards as continuing state
pressure, the regional justice department in Kostroma near Moscow ordered a
"check-up" on the Family of God Pentecostal church in June. The
church was given just days - three of which were public holidays - to provide
documentation on church funds, church activity, congregation membership records
and minutes of meetings. "Other churches haven't been asked," Danilov
pointed out to Forum 18 News Service. But local religious affairs official
Marina Smirnova defended such action against the church, which included a failed
court case on accusations of conducting hypnosis. "This concerns the lives
of OUR people... hopefully we caused Danilov to think twice, I call that a
result."
Russia:
Is
Kostroma missionary black spot?
At
the same time as five US citizens working with the evangelical Kostroma
Christian Church were denied Russian visas last summer, Forum 18 News Service
has learnt that another US cion with a threat to national security".
Slovakia:
Why
can't smaller Protestant churches or muslims gain legal status?
Leaders
of smaller Protestant Churches, Muslims and Hare Krishna devotees have
complained about a bizarre provision of the country's law that renders new
religious communities with fewer than 20,000 members ineligible to gain legal
status as religious communities. "Unregistered communities have no legal
status and cannot build places of worship," Jan Juran, director of the
Culture Ministry's church affairs office, explained to Forum 18 News Service.
"We want to register. This is not freedom," Pastor Gabriel Minarik,
leader of the Christian Fellowships, told Forum 18. Bratislava imam Mohamad
Safwan Hasna complained that the denial of registration and the inability of
the community to build mosques is "very humiliating".
Please
check
to learn about religious rights violations in
communist and post- communist lands.
ASSIST
News Service provides this persecution report.
Kenya:
Muslim
tensions rise and churches burn
On
13 June, Muslims rioting over the arrest of one of their clerics torched five
churches in Bura, Tana River district, not far from Mombasa in Kenya. The
churches razed were the Anglican Church of Kenya (ACK) in Bura, the Bethel
Church, and churches belonging to the Pentecostal Evangelism Fellowship of
Africa (PEFA), the East African Pentecostal Church (EAPC), and the Full Gospel
Church of Kenya (FGCK).
Of
great concern to Christians in Kenya is the fact that no one has been charged
over the burning of the churches. Christian leaders are still waiting to see if
the arsonists will receive justice or impunity. As impunity equals permission,
this is a serious issue of national significance at a time when Muslim tensions
are rising to boiling point.
Church
burnings in Bura
The
Reverend Simon K. Mungumba, the Assistant Chairman of the Bura Pastors'
Fellowship, has written a report of the incident. Rev. Mungumba writes (14
June) that on the evening of Thursday 12 June 2003, the Divisional Officer (DO)
was passing through Manyatta with some security officers in his vehicle. When
they stopped in Manyatta and alighted from their vehicle, some Orma and Somali
youths started stoning them, forcing them to retreat into the vehicle and drive
away.
According
to Rev. Mungumba's account, the DO returned the following morning to inquire of
the local Imam as to why they had been attacked. The Imam told the DO that the
local Muslim youths had a visiting preacher in town and feared he may be
arrested.
This
`visiting preacher', Sheikh Khalifa Mutiso, is a former Christian pastor who
converted to Islam and now preaches aggressively against Christianity and
Christians, with offensive and obscene messages that, according to Rev.
Mungumba, "border on incitement".
Rev.
Mungumba reports that at that point the DO decided to take Sheikh Khalifa
Mutiso in for questioning. Once again the DO and his accompanying security
officers were pelted with stones and abused by Muslim youths and women. The
attack became so violent that the police fired their weapons into the air in
the hope of dispersing the rioters. When that did not help, so the DO arrested
Sheikh Khalifa Mutiso and took him away for police questioning.
At
that point the Muslim rioters stoned the police station and commenced burning
and looting the churches, while others chanted, "release our sheikh, we
want him to continue preaching".
The
rioting lasted from the arrest at 9:00 am until Sheikh Khalifa Mutiso was
released at the intervention of a local MP.
There
is little shade in Bura, so in an act of great solidarity and generosity, the
Catholic Church provided tents for all of the churches that were burned down.
At
a subsequent meeting of Christian leaders, Ibrahim Ormondi of the Evangelical
Fellowship of Kenya spoke with Bishop Kinnogah, who told him that he had met
with the Provincial Commissioner, who promised to order the arrest of the
Islamic preacher who incited Muslims in Bura. So far, however, he has not been
arrested.
The
local Imams say they do not know Sheikh Mutiso, however Christian leaders know
him as a preacher from Mwingi who has been preaching the same way in Mombasa
and the administration are aware of the threats and inflammatory statements he
has been issuing. Sheik Mutiso usually directs his attentions to youths, most
of them of school age children and teenagers.
The
Bura Pastor' Fellowship is calling on the Kenyan government to investigate the
incident and compensate the churches that have lost their buildings.
"Also,"
says Rev. Mungumba, "as Bura leaders we feel the security in Bura needs
boosting. The Muslim youths need to know the worth and authority of the
government. This occurrence should be addressed with the decisiveness it
deserves." (Please see the web site for more details.)
Mysterious
killings in Embu
The
Catholic Diocese of Embu wrote to the Officer Commanding Police Division (OCPD)
in Embu, Eastern Province, recently, requesting an investigation into a series
of killings. Since March this year, at least 12 church watchmen and one church
cook have been killed. The victims all had their throats cut or were
decapitated and only churches and church related institutions were being
targeted. There are no clues however as to the culprits or their motives (other
than theft). It is quite mysterious and unsettling. (Link 2)
Kadhi
courts
Kenyan
Muslims are pushing to increase the power and influence of Kenya's Kadhi
(Islamic) Courts. Muslims want the Kadhi courts to be fully entrenched in the
new Constitution with national rather than just local jurisdiction. Christians
maintain that the entrenchment of Kadhi Courts in the constitution, elevating
them to national level and giving them authority equal to the state's secular
courts, will compromise Article 10 which states that, "The State shall
treat all religions equally". Muslims maintain that they will accept
nothing less than the entrenchment of the courts in the constitution and some
Muslims unfortunately, have made inflammatory threats to establish a separate
Islamic state if the Kadhi Courts are not accepted -- this has not helped the
debate. (Link 3)
Terror
arrests
On
Monday 23 June, four Kenyan residents were brought before Chief Magistrate
Aggrey Mchelule in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, to face murder charges. They
have been in detention since March 2003 on suspicion of harbouring the
terrorists who carried out the car-bomb attack on the Israeli-owned beach front
Paradise Hotel near Mombasa in November 2002 that killed 18 people. They were
remanded in custody and will appear before court again on 8 August.
The
charges against the four - Kenyan father and son Mohamed Kubwa and Mohamed
Kubwa Seif, and Said Saggar Ahmed and Aboud Rogo Mohamed, whose nationalities
were not known - were the latest in a string of anti-terror measures.
Some
80 Muslims are currently detained on suspicion of terror links. Muslims are
outraged by the arrests, saying that they are being used as scapegoats and that
the cases are unduly influenced by foreign (USA, CIA) interference, pressure
and funding.
Kenyan
Muslim politicians and clerics believe that Kenya's proposed Anti-terrorism
Bill abuses the rights of Kenyan Muslims. (Three MPs from the ruling NARC party
have crossed the floor to support the opposition in this, and several lawyers
are saying that it violates the constitution.)
Muslim
leaders, led by the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya (CIPK)
secretary-general Sheikh Mohammed Dor, and the chairman of unregistered Islamic
Party of Kenya (IPK) Sheikh Mohammed Khalifa, have threatened to form their own
political party. At a public rally in Mombasa on Sunday 29 June, Islamic
speakers "blasted the Government for what they termed harassment of
Muslims after branding them terror suspects on the whims of America and
Israel." Sheikh Dor comments, "The way things are going on today,
civil strife is looming." Dor also branded "America, Israel and the
(ruling Kenyan) NARC Government as enemy number one of Muslims." (Link 4)
Please
go to< www.assistnews.net> to find many fascinating Christian news
stories.
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