The assault bore the hallmarks of long-term
planning: Cars loaded down with heavy explosives and driven by those
willing to die, men wearing security uniforms and ready to shoot any
official who believed they belonged to the government they despise.Pictured: People walk past the entrance gate of the Murtala Mohammed specialist hospital, were victims of last Friday suicide bombing are receiving treatment in Kano, Nigeria.
Continue reading Nigeria Under Pressure as Country is Strained by Violence.
The case of Asia Bibi, the 45-year-old Pakistani Christian mother-of-five who is under the threat of the death penalty for alleged blasphemy, is still on hold, but her family remains hopeful.
A sack of 50 kilograms of maize and another of rice fed the Lwakatale
family of 15 for a month. The father, Ponsiano Lwakatale, a pastor in
Kampala, Uganda, took note of each grain.
Thousands of the little wooden prayer tablets rattle softly in the cold,
spring breeze, a symphony of soft clattering that drifts out from the
Shinto shrine.
Ivory Coast leader Laurent Gbagbo has barred United
Nations aircraft from flying over his country, complicating
international efforts to transition power to the U.N. recognized winner
of last November's election, Alessane Ouattara.
The pictures and reports appear to be positive in Egypt. There's
relative calm, but the organization in power doesn't have a good track
record when it comes to Christians.
With
a key religious freedom leadership post vacant for two years, despite a
law requiring it, the U.S. government is unprepared to deal with the
issue in Egypt and around the world.
