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Afghanistan: Islam, the Taliban and the Underground Church
By Elizabeth KendalTaliban in Kabul, August 2021 (Rahmat Gul / AP) On Sunday 15 August 2021, thousands of heavily armed Taliban fighters swept into Kabul and fanned out across the capital. As in...
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Afghanistan, the Afghan Church, and J. Christy Wilson Jr.
J. Christy Wilson Jn. (1921 – 1999) No missionaries in Afghanistan? Here I am, send me! by Elizabeth KendalKabul, Afghanistan, February 1973. German businessman Hans Mohr stands in the office of the...
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D.R. Congo (DRC): Islamic State Consolidates and Expands in Central Africa.
by Elizabeth Kendal The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is estimated to be 92.2 percent Christian (of whom around half remain animist) and 1.9 percent Muslim. Islam entered DRC from East Africa’s...
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Ethiopia's Future Hangs the Balance
by Elizabeth Kendal On 28 June, in what seemed to be an instantaneous and inexplicable reversal of fortunes, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – the Marxist organisation that dominated,...
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Message from Elizabeth Kendal concerning RLM blog.
This is a message to all who have signed up to receive Religious Liberty Monitoring posts by email.For many years now everything published to the Religious Liberty Prayer Bulletin (RLPB) blog and the...
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Papua (Indonesian): This is What State Terror Looks Like.
by Elizabeth Kendal On Sunday 25 April a small detachment of Indonesian security personnel was patrolling a crime scene in Puncak Regency, in the Central Highlands of Papua Province, when it was...
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Military Coup Leaves Burma’s Christian Peoples Gravely Imperilled
By Elizabeth KendalGeneral elections were held in Burma (Myanmar) on 8 November 2020. There were problems, mostly on account of on-going conflict and massive displacement. However, 95 percent of...
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Australia: Victoria’s ‘Anti-Conversion’ Law Passes in Upper House
-- Royal assent secured; law will come into effect on 16 Feb 2022.The Victorian state government’s Change or Suppression (Conversion) Practises Prohibition Bill passed in the Legislative Council on the...
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Victoria, Australia: The Church of LGBTQ+’s War Against “Apostasy”
by Elizabeth KendalWhen the Victorian parliament returns on 2 February, one of the first issues to be decided will be the fate of the government’s unprecedented and far-reaching Change or Suppression...
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Trump in Riyadh: a Message to Tehran
By Elizabeth KendalReligious Liberty MonitoringOn Saturday 20 May, US President Donald Trump arrived in Saudi Arabia for what was to be the first stop on a nine-day tour of the Middle East and Western...
View ArticleUzbekistan's Religion Law: Currently Under Review
by Elizabeth KendalUzbekistan’s repressive Religious Law is currently under review.The law – which has its roots in the Soviet era – was adopted in 1998 during the rule of Islam Karimov. A ruthless...
View ArticleApologies - correction (Ivory Coast)
Yesterday, Religious Liberty Monitoring blog posted a report entitled - "Ivory Coast: church attacked; refugees suffering; lawyers refused; Mbeki speaks".The report is from 2011. . . it is not new. ....
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Slaughter in Oromia: The Battle for Ethiopia Heats Up
By Elizabeth KendalDEATH IN ADDIS ABABAOn the evening of Monday 29 June, popular Ethiopian singer and champion of Oromo interests Hachalu Hundessa (36) was assassinated in Addis Ababa, in Gelan...
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Mozambique: A Crisis in the Making.
by Elizabeth KendalOn Tuesday 7 April, Islamic insurgents perpetrated a most appalling massacre in the village of Xitaxi, in Muidumbe district, in Mozambique’s northern-most region of Cabo...
View ArticleThe COVID-19 Pandemic and the Persecuted Church.
Persecuted Christians in the developing and non-free world will find themselves increasingly at risk as the COVID-19 pandemic takes hold.Firstly, there is the problem of systematic discrimination. As...
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Indonesia: Mobilizing Civilian Militias for National Defense
-- implications for security in the Papuan provincesOn the afternoon of Thursday 26 September, with only 73 of 283 members of parliament in the House, the Indonesian parliament passed a profoundly...
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Papuans have had enough of racial-religious hatred and persecution.
By Elizabeth KendalEvery 15 August, Papuans (mostly Christian Melanesians) hold demonstrations to protest the unjust New York Agreement, signed on 15 August 1962, which paved the way for West Papua and...
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Nigeria’s Fraudulent Election: Will Things Fall Apart?
By Elizabeth KendalNigerians vote: 23 February 2019“Massive, consistent, and comprehensive, deliberate manipulation and distortion preceded, attended, and followed the Nigerian Presidential and...
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Militants destabilise Burkina Faso; but whose proxies are they?
-- by Elizabeth KendalTerror incidents 2018.Africa Centre for Strategic StudiesTerror attacks have been escalating at an alarming rate in Burkina Faso, from 12 attacks in 2016, to 33 in 2017, to 158 in...
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Papua: The Christian Crisis in Eastern Indonesia
(NOTE: The western half of the island of New Guinea, Papua was formerly known as Irian Jaya)-- by Elizabeth KendalCourtesy Vanuatu, Benny Wenda presents petition to Michelle Bachelet.The U.N. High...
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