Monthly Archives: September 2009

Egypt's controversial candidate for UNESCO director general failed to win an absolute majority in a ballot of world envoys on Friday, with the vote now set to head to a third round, a spokesman said.

The leader of Lebanon's Hizbullah vowed on Friday that his Shiite terror group will never recognize Israel and that no Arab state has the right to do so either.

Susan Rice, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said Friday that comments made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a rally in Teheran were "hateful."

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on September 7, a Pakistani court granted bail to 13 Muslims, including radical clerics who incited mob attacks against Christians, that resulted in 11 Christians being killed and over 40 Christians homes being burned down in Gojra.

International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that on August 15, a Muslim man kidnapped and raped an 8th grade Christian girl in Pakistan.

Cairo - A large crowd of angry Coptic Christians gathered in front of a church Wednesday in the Egyptian town of Bagur, following the murder of a Christian shopkeeper and the stabbings of two others, police said.

A human rights group expresses concern over “increasing incidents of violence” against religious minorities. Fanatics enjoy impunity thanks to complicitous prison guards.

Terror group’s document says kidnapping of US soldier earlier this year should serve as precedent in a campaign of abducting Western civilians to negotiate release of Taliban, Al Qaeda prisoners

Envoy says US govt will continue to deliver assistance through a variety of long-standing vectors as required by American law to ensure transparency, accountability

FBI agents with bomb-sniffing dogs Wednesday raided the Colorado apartment of an Afghan national linked to Al Qaeda and a plot to attack the New York City subway system.