Author archives: Faith Matters

Cobblestones commemorating murdered Jews stolen in Rome
December 16, 2018 By Faith Matters

Cobblestones commemorating murdered Jews stolen in Rome

Twenty cobblestones commemorating members of two Italian Jewish families who were deported to Auschwitz or killed in Rome were dug up and stolen in the early hours of Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic attack. The bronze-capped cobblestones were embedded into the pavement outside a building in Rome’s central Monti neighbourhood that was home to the […]

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A Dutch church is holding a marathon service to block a family’s Christmas deportation
December 14, 2018 By Faith Matters

A Dutch church is holding a marathon service to block a family’s Christmas deportation

Worshippers at a church in the Netherlands have been holding round-the-clock prayer services for more than six weeks to prevent an Armenian family from being deported, hoping for a Christmas miracle. Emily Wither reports. This church service in the Netherlands has been running round the clock for more than six weeks. They’re not trying to […]

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Christmas market gunman evades French police two days after attack
December 13, 2018 By Faith Matters

Christmas market gunman evades French police two days after attack

The death toll in an attack on Strasbourg’s Christmas market rose to three on Thursday as police searched through eastern France and manned checkpoints on the German border in a hunt for the fugitive gunman. Police issued a wanted poster for Cherif Chekatt, the main suspect in the attack, who was on an watchlist as […]

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As election nears, religious tensions surge in an Indian village
December 9, 2018 By Faith Matters

As election nears, religious tensions surge in an Indian village

Nayabans isn’t remarkable as northern Indian villages go. Sugar cane grows in surrounding fields, women carry animal feed in bullock carts through narrow lanes, people chatter outside a store, and cows loiter. But this week, the village in Uttar Pradesh state became a symbol of the deepening communal divide in India as some Hindu men […]

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British Imams Demand the Release of Extremist Khadim Hussain Rizvi
December 4, 2018 By Faith Matters

British Imams Demand the Release of Extremist Khadim Hussain Rizvi

On the 30th of November 2018, Deeni News, broadcast this interview with a number of religious leaders based in the United Kingdom. What is so distressing about this interview is that these UK based individuals are demanding the release of violent extremism promoter, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who leads the extremist Tehreek-e-Labaik party in Pakistan. This […]

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If you can’t as a Persecuted Christian Get Asylum in the UK, then Something Warped is Happening
December 2, 2018 By Faith Matters

If you can’t as a Persecuted Christian Get Asylum in the UK, then Something Warped is Happening

The Times reports today that the lawyer for persecuted Christian, Asia Bibi, has lambasted the Prime Minister and asked that she stand up for persecuted Christians. The lawyer, Saif ul-Malook, questioned why the Government had not provided asylum for Asia Bib and stated that the Christian world campaigned for Asia and has now turned its […]

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We Urge the Home Secretary to Provide Refuge and Sanctuary to Asia Bibi in the UK
November 12, 2018 By Faith Matters

We Urge the Home Secretary to Provide Refuge and Sanctuary to Asia Bibi in the UK

We have today, signed a letter with numerous organisations and individuals, asking the Home Secretary to provide the option of sanctuary and refuge to Asia Bibi, who was released after 8 years of false imprisonment in Pakistan. Faith Matters has consistently highlighted the extremism of groups like Tehreek-e-Labaik and its leader, Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who […]

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Exclusive: Polish Group Organising Independence Day Rally in Peterborough Has Problematic Past
November 10, 2018 By Faith Matters

Exclusive: Polish Group Organising Independence Day Rally in Peterborough Has Problematic Past

A Polish community group which is organising an Independence Day rally in Peterborough tomorrow has previously called for the release of a notorious Polish white supremacist who murdered an anti-Apartheid activist in South Africa in 1993 in hopes of triggering a race war, a Faith Matters investigation can reveal. We are concerned that Peterborough’s Mayor […]

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Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians
November 5, 2018 By Faith Matters

Egypt says 19 militants killed in security operation after attack on Christians

Egyptian security forces killed 19 Islamist militants from a cell believed to be responsible for an attack on Christians in Minya province in central Egypt in which seven people died, the interior ministry said on Sunday. Security forces killed the suspects in a firefight after a chase in a mountainous area of the desert west […]

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Fearing ‘angry mob’, lawyer of freed Christian woman leaves Pakistan
November 3, 2018 By Faith Matters

Fearing ‘angry mob’, lawyer of freed Christian woman leaves Pakistan

The Pakistani lawyer who helped a Christian woman overturn her death sentence for blasphemy said on Saturday he had left the country in fear of his life after her acquittal earlier this week sparked street protests by Islamists. Leaders of the ultra-Islamist Tehreek-e-Labaik (TLP) group blocked main roads in Pakistan’s biggest cites for three days, […]

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