http://www.religionnewsblog.com Religion news about religious cults, sects, world religions, and related issues Sun, 27 May 2012 12:52:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26788/belgium-court-charges-six-people-in-deadly-exorcism-of-muslim-woman http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26788/belgium-court-charges-six-people-in-deadly-exorcism-of-muslim-woman#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 13:31:59 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26788 A court in Brussels opened the trial of six people charged in connection with the 2004 murder of a young Muslim woman in a deadly act of exorcism, a practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person believed to be possessed.

The woman was reportedly deceived into believing that she could not have children because she was possessed and that she had to undergo a practice of exorcism.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26788/belgium-court-charges-six-people-in-deadly-exorcism-of-muslim-woman/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26763/malaysian-newspaper-apologizes-for-changing-anti-scientology-speech-into-anti-islam-speech http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26763/malaysian-newspaper-apologizes-for-changing-anti-scientology-speech-into-anti-islam-speech#comments Fri, 04 May 2012 15:43:07 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26763 Malaysian newspaper New Straits Times changed an anti-Scientology speech by Australian Senator Nick Xenophon into an anti-Islam speech by switching the terms.

Amid concerns for his safety, the senator says the paper's apology is too little, too late.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26763/malaysian-newspaper-apologizes-for-changing-anti-scientology-speech-into-anti-islam-speech/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26747/bible-school-church-buildings-attacked-in-sudan http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26747/bible-school-church-buildings-attacked-in-sudan#comments Sat, 28 Apr 2012 14:56:28 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26747 Christians faced increased hostilities in Sudan over the past few weeks, culminating in an attack on a Christian compound in Khartoum by a throng of Muslim extremists armed with clubs, iron rods, a bulldozer and fire.

Breaking down the compound wall with a bulldozer, the assailants set fire to the Gerief West Bible School and the Sudan Presbyterian Evangelical Church (SPEC) building; they also damaged three other places of worship and other buildings in the same compound.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26747/bible-school-church-buildings-attacked-in-sudan/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26733/muslim-assailants-in-egypt-escape-prosecution http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26733/muslim-assailants-in-egypt-escape-prosecution#comments Mon, 23 Apr 2012 16:07:34 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26733 A recent “reconciliation meeting” between members of a Muslim mob that attacked a Christian-owned school in Egypt and school administrators was nothing less than an attempt at legalized extortion, the director of the school said.

In exchange for peace, members of the sword-wielding mob that stormed the school last month without provocation – and held two nuns hostage for several hours – initially demanded in the meetings that the school sign over parcels of land that include the guesthouse the Muslim extremists attacked.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26733/muslim-assailants-in-egypt-escape-prosecution/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26712/pakistani-woman-accused-of-blasphemy-illegally-held-in-jail http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26712/pakistani-woman-accused-of-blasphemy-illegally-held-in-jail#comments Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:48:15 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26712 The mother of a 6-month-old girl has been wrongly jailed for more than a month, as Pakistani authorities have failed to file a charge sheet within the mandatory 14-day period against the young Christian woman falsely accused of “blaspheming” the prophet of Islam, her attorney said.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26712/pakistani-woman-accused-of-blasphemy-illegally-held-in-jail/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26704/court-in-egypt-sentences-young-christian-for-insulting-islam http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26704/court-in-egypt-sentences-young-christian-for-insulting-islam#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:27:38 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26704 In a show of partiality to Muslims who go unprosecuted for like offenses against Christianity, a juvenile court in Egypt sentenced a Coptic Christian teenager to three years in prison for allegedly insulting Islam.

The court claimed that he posted cartoons on his Facebook account in December that mocked the Islamic religion and its prophet, Muhammad.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26704/court-in-egypt-sentences-young-christian-for-insulting-islam/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26697/islamic-extremists-detained-in-france-planned-to-kidnap-jewish-judge http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26697/islamic-extremists-detained-in-france-planned-to-kidnap-jewish-judge#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:51:48 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26697 A group of Islamic radicals have been charged with planning to kidnap a French judge.

The head of France's Central Directorate for Domestic Intelligence (DCRI), Bernard Squarcini, said on Saturday that those arrested the previous day were French nationals involved in "warlike training, linked to violent religious indoctrination".]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26697/islamic-extremists-detained-in-france-planned-to-kidnap-jewish-judge/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26645/pakistani-woman-charged-with-blasphemy-for-refusing-islam http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26645/pakistani-woman-charged-with-blasphemy-for-refusing-islam#comments Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:58:35 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26645 A young mother has been falsely accused of “blaspheming” Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, because she rebuffed attempts by relatives who had converted to Islam to force her to renounce her Christian faith, family members said.

Speaking ill of Muhammad in Pakistan is punishable by life imprisonment or death under Pakistan’s internationally condemned blasphemy laws.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26645/pakistani-woman-charged-with-blasphemy-for-refusing-islam/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26621/islamists-in-egypt-use-rumors-to-attack-christians http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26621/islamists-in-egypt-use-rumors-to-attack-christians#comments Tue, 06 Mar 2012 13:29:52 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26621 Tensions remain high in an Egyptian village where as many as 5,000 mostly Salafi Muslims went on a rampage over a false rumor that a church was holding a girl against her will in order to convert her back to Christianity.

The 14-year-old girl’s father, an ethnic Copt who converted to Islam, had stirred them up on the mistaken notions that his daughter had converted to Islam and that Christians had kidnapped her.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26621/islamists-in-egypt-use-rumors-to-attack-christians/feed 0 http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26603/doctors-try-to-save-remaining-eye-of-ugandan-pastor-after-acid-attack http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26603/doctors-try-to-save-remaining-eye-of-ugandan-pastor-after-acid-attack#comments Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:17:29 +0000 Religion News Blog http://www.religionnewsblog.com/?p=26603 While a Ugandan pastor was fighting to retain sight in his remaining eye after an acid attack, Muslim extremists this month were shooting at his close friend, a leader of another church.

Doctors at Sheba Hospital in Tel-Aviv, Israel, are still not sure what kind of chemicals Muslim extremists cast on Bishop Umar Mulinde of Gospel Life Church International outside of Kampala last Christmas Eve, but they know that the acid is threatening the vision in his remaining eye.]]> http://www.religionnewsblog.com/26603/doctors-try-to-save-remaining-eye-of-ugandan-pastor-after-acid-attack/feed 0