Burma | Reforms Offer No Respite for Ethnic Christians

May 4(Compass Direct News) – Amid global euphoria over reforms in Burman-majority parts of Burma, life has changed little for more than 3 million Christians and other minorities left to suffer from one of the world’s longest running civil wars. ...

Read more: Attacks and Persecution on Christians May 31, 2012

A small improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at a Salvation Army distribution center in Phoenix, Ariz., on the afternoon of May 24. Two Salvation Army employees discovered the explosive device, which was concealed inside a yellow, hand-held 6-volt flashlight, as they were sorting through a ...

Read more: A Serial Bomber in Phoenix

♦ The battle over Syria has descended into sectarian strife led by extreme Salafists and other Islamic splinter organizations in a carefully orchestrated uprising coordinated and fueled by al-Qaeda operatives.  

♦ The Syrian National Council, the main opposition group, could well ...

Read more: Al-Qaeda and Jihadists Join the Battle Against Syrian Regime

Aunt of 13-year-old victim loses twins to miscarriage after beating. 

LAHORE, Pakistan, May 21(Compass Direct News) – A band of Muslims this month severely beat a pregnant Christian woman in Punjab’s Narowal district – causing her to lose female twins to miscarriage – in an effort pressure her ...

Read more: Pakistani Muslims Rape Girl, Beat Relatives for Prosecuting

Pakistani Women Writers Denounce Islamic Clerics' Fatwas Against Women's Use Of Cell Phones And Access To Secular Education 

Former Pakistani lawmaker and cleric Maulana Abdul Haleem recently issued a fatwa (Islamic degree) against secular education and justifying honor killings of women.[1]The ...

Read more: Fatwa on Women | Cell Phone Use Punished by Acid in Face

Recent days have seen violent clashes around Tripoli, Lebanon's second largest city located in the north of the country, between Alawite supporters of the Syrian regime and Sunni backers of the anti-Assad opposition forces. To many observers, this violent escalation came as a surprise, in light of ...

Read more: Tensions in Tripoli: The Syrian Crisis and its Impact on Lebanon

(Editor's Note) The continued persecution of Christians by Muslims on the global stage in plain site continues unabated due to the refusal of mainstream news to turn their cameras and journalists upon them.  Muslims are committing gruesome murders, beheadings, severe and deadly beatings, ...

Read more: Muslim Persecution of Christians: April, 2012

There has been a lot of chatter in intelligence and academic circles about al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) bombmaker Ibrahim al-Asiri and his value to AQAP. The disclosure last week of a thwarted AQAP plotto attack U.S. airliners using an improved version of an "underwear bomb" used ...

Read more: Terrorism and the Exceptional Individual