Rabbi Jonathan Cahn, The New York Times best-selling author of The Harbinger and The Mystery of the Shemitah, addressed the United Nations on Friday about the worsening persecution of Christians in the Middle East and other parts of the world.
Cahn, the senior rabbi at the Beth Israel Worship Center in Wayne, New Jersey, was invited along with other Jewish and Christian leaders, businessmen and high-ranking military officials, to speak at the conference entitled, “The Persecution of Christians Globally: A Threat to International Peace and Security.”
Italian officials have 15 Muslims under arrested after it was discovered they singled out Christians to throw overboard during a crossing from Africa to Italy.
Authorities in Palermo, Sicily, are charging the Muslims with suspicion of murder.
The Christians were part of a boatload of migrants who left Libya Tuesday in a rubber boat. Police say the Muslims, who are from Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal, began to throw the Christians overboard as they were in the middle of the crossing.
The dead are from Nigeria and Ghana.
The remaining passengers reportedly formed a human chain to stop the Muslims from being able to kill anyone else on the boat.
Thousands each year attempt to make the voyage from Africa to the European coast and die in the process. Rarely do people die from deliberate means as the Christians who were killed in this incident.
The Middle East Media Research Institute is reporting that the terrorist group ISIS has destroyed a Christian graveyard in Mosul.
Pictures of the terrorists smashing headstones in Mosul were posted online titled “Leveling Graves and Erasing Pagan Symbols.”
“The April 16 destruction of Christian graves in Mosul, Iraq by the Islamic State (ISIS) is part of the organization’s ongoing campaign against Christianity, in the Middle East and throughout the Muslim world,” said Steven Stalinsky, executive director of The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
The terrorists claim that Islamic teaching requires them to destroy any grave higher than ground level. Images on the graves must also be destroyed.
“It is important to note that ISIS is documenting its destruction and desecration of Christian sites and its attacks on Christian communities, and on other minorities’ sites and communities, and is disseminating these images worldwide via social media,” Stalinsky told Fox News. “By doing this, ISIS is not only showcasing what it is doing, but is also mocking the West by demonstrating that it is doing so freely, with no one trying to stop it.”
Mosul has been under the control of the terrorists since June 2014.
A 15-year-old Pakistani Christian youth who was burned over 55% percent of body in an attack by Muslims has died.
We reported on the attack on Nouman Masih, who had been beaten and then burned by Muslim youths after he told them he was a Christian. The Muslim youths had been on the way to Friday prayers when they found Nouman and attacked him.
Doctors treated Nouman with the best items they had available but the hospital did not have a burn ward to provide the specialized treatment needed for Nouman’s wounds. The boy died around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
A spokesman for the British Pakistani Christian Association said that Nouman made a point to say he forgave his attackers before he died.
“He just said that he forgave them. That’s more like a Christian forgiveness, but he didn’t want his attackers to prevail and enact their crimes on anybody else. He was just being very magnanimous in a Christian way saying, ‘I have forgiven them but I want them to go through the justice system,'” BPCA Chairman Wilson Chowdhry told the Christian Post.
“You can imagine what it was like for him to have kerosene poured on him and being set alight,” Chowdhry continued. “He was very vocal in the fact that he didn’t want that to happen to anyone else, especially at the moment when Christians are under some very extreme tension.”
The Muslim youth who killed Nouman have yet to be identified so local officials say they can do nothing until they find the attackers.
Over 100 Pakistani Christians were arrested after the lynching of two Islamists believed to be involved in two church bombings that killed 17 Christians. Now, some of the prisoners have been released and are showing evidence of brutal treatment from Pakistani police.
The International Christian Concern says that some of the 30 released from jail say they were beaten and given other tortures in an attempt to get them to confess to being a part of the killings.
“They were telling us that they were beaten to a pulp,” ICC President Jeff King told The Christian Post at Tuesday’s press conference. “A lot of times, what they are saying is that they get beaten to a pulp and get left on their doorstep in a bloody mess, and the whole point was to extract confessions.”
King said that the ICC condemns the killing of the two Muslim men and that just needs to be done, but that Pakistani officials are using the situation to target and harass Christians.
We would seek for justice for those Muslim families but arbitrary arrests and detention are not the way to get justice,” King told the Christian Post. “They only serve further flames of injustice and hatred. Frankly, it is a mark of a Banana republic and an incompetent police force.”
“They are just fishing and seeing if they can beat confessions out of random people from the neighborhood,” King added. “Foreign police forces know that this is actually terrible police work because people will falsely confess to end their beatings. But, you are not getting justice.”
Two Muslim youths on their way to Friday prayers stopped a Christian boy, beat him and then set him on fire.
The victim, identified as “Nuaman” by the local Christian group The Voice Society, is hospitalized in Lahore in Punjab province with burns on 55 percent of his body.
The two Muslim attackers have not been identified.
“I told them that I am Christian. They started beating me, when I tried running, both boys started following me through the street and then they threw Kerosene on me and burnt me,” Nuaman was quoted as saying in the Christian Post. “I kept on running when a heap of sand came my way, I lied down on the sand … [A] few people from the community … [extinguished] fire by putting sand on me. I became unconscious, and they called 1122 Emergency medical helpline and called [for] an ambulance.”
The attack is being considered a revenge attack for the lynching of two Muslim terrorists following an attack on a Christian church March 15th that left 17 people dead and 80 injured. A Taliban splinter group claimed responsibility for the attack.
A Christian woman that was suspended after a Muslim co-worker rushed to her employer to complain she was witnessed to has had her appeal denied by a British tribunal.
Victoria Wasteney, 38, thought she had become friends with Muslim Enya Nawaz, 27. The two worked at St. John Howard Center in London. The two discussed Islam and Christianity and Wasteney shared her church’s efforts to fight human trafficking.
“The whole basis of our conversations around faith started with her telling me that she’d had an encounter with God, that she felt she had been brought to London for a particular reason,” Wasteney told reporters. “We were both interested in what one another were involved in. It was part of the normal process of building a relationship with someone, to talk about primarily things we were interested in outside of work.”
In 2013, Nawaz told Wasteney about some health concerns. Wasteney offered to pray for the woman she thought was a friend and did so. She also gave the woman a book about a Muslim that turned to Christianity.
Nawaz then rushed to their employer alleging that Wasteney was attempting to witness and convert her.
After suspending Wasteney for nine months with pay, a disciplinary panel last year declared that Wasteney was guilty of “bullying and harassment” for talking about her faith and praying over her sick co-worker even though the co-worker gave permission. She was given a written warning and allowed to resume working but not in her specialized field.
“I knew she was from a different faith background and I was respectful of that. I didn’t force my beliefs on anyone at any point. Surely there should be room for mutual conversations about faith, where appropriate, in the workplace?” she said in a statement on Wednesday.
“I am extremely disappointed with the tribunal’s decision to side with my employer,” Wasteney continued. “There is already an unnatural caginess around faith and belief which is an obstruction to building meaningful relationships in the workplace.”
Surviving by drinking lotion while hiding in a closet, a Kenyan teenager is praising God for surviving the brutal attack by Islamic terrorists on a University in Garissa.
Cynthia Cheroitich, 19, spoke to reporters at a local hospital after being treated for dehydration and malnourishment.
“I was just praying to my God, saying that if it has come to my day, it has reached. But if it not yet, let God decide whatever He likes,” she said.
She said that she chose the closet after the Islamist gunmen yelled any student hiding under their beds would “come out very fast.” She covered herself with clothes so that a quick check of the closet wouldn’t reveal her presence.
She said that when she began to feel hungry and thirsty, her only option was a bottle of body oil.
Cynthia was so terrified that she did not believe at first the Kenyan military forces were actually there to help her. The troops had to find a teacher to explain to the girl that it was safe to leave the closet.
The Islamic terrorist group Al-Shabaab admitted the attack which was targeting Christian students. Witnesses said that the terrorists would ask who the student worshiped and if they answered Christ they were shot on the spot.
Kenyan officials have confirmed the death toll in the Islamic terrorist attack on Garissa University has reached 147.
Witnesses say that the terrorists appear to have had excessive planning because the first place targeted was a lecture hall where Christians would meet for early morning prayers.
“They investigated our area. They knew everything,” Helen Titus told The Associated Press at a hospital in Garissa where she was being treated for a bullet wound to the wrist. Titus said she put her classmate’s blood and hair on her face and laid still to make the attackers believe she was dead.
The terrorists also called for studnets to come out, saying they would not kill women. They shot men on site if they said they were not Muslim.
The terrorists confirmed they were targeting Christians.
“We sorted people out and released the Muslims,” Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, the spokesman for the group Al-Shabaab, which took responsibility for the armed assault, announced. “There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building.”
A group of masked terrorists have killed at least 70 people and taken hostages after attacking Garissa University in Kenya.
The Islamic extremist group Al-Shabaab claimed the assault and said they were targeting the Christians at the school.
“We sorted people out and released the Muslims,” said terrorist spokesman Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab. “There are many dead bodies of Christians inside the building. We are also holding many Christians alive. Fighting still goes on inside the college.”
Witnesses say that the terrorists had snipers on top of buildings to shoot those who were fleeing the dormitories during the attack. Soldiers reportedly ordered the students to dive for cover as they escaped the building.
The terrorists say they are also holding a number of female Christians alive as hostages.
The vice chariman of the student union told Fox News that the gunmen were asking people about their faith.
“If you were a Christian you were shot on the spot,” he said. “With each blast of the gun I thought I was going to die.”
The terrorist group has targeted Kenya after that nation contributed forces to the African Union that drove Al-Shabaab from major cities in Somalia.
