Malaysian courts rule Catholic paper cannot use word ‘Allah’

World Watch Monitor reports that after a seven-year legal battle, Malaysia’s courts finally ruled that Rev. Lawrence Andrew no longer can call God by the name ‘Allah’ in his Catholic weekly newspaper, the Herald. It continues “In a country of 30 million people that is 60 percent Muslim, the courts agreed ‘Allah’ in the Herald would…

Bishop Angaelos responds to IS outrage in Libya

An Isis-affiliated terror group have released a video purporting to show the beheadings of 21 Egyptian Christians. It shows a group wearing orange jumpsuits, being forced to the ground and then decapitated on a beach, believed to be near Tripoli. The men are all Coptic Christians, labourers rounded up from Sirte in December and January. A…

Iraq: Assyrian Christians assert right to self-rule

The Times reports that when Islamic State militants swept across northern Iraq, the region’s Christians faced an ultimatum from the jihadists: leave, convert or die. However, as western-backed Iraqi and Kurdish forces have started to reclaim their territory on the Nineveh plains, the Assyrians are asserting their right to a fourth way — self-rule. Christian soldiers…