INTENSIFICATION OF RELIGIOUS ‘CLAMPDOWN’ IN CHINA
By Andrew Richards Under President Xi Jinping, China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong, believers are seeing their freedoms shrink dramatically even as the country undergoes a religious revival. Experts and activists say that as he consolidates his power, Mr Xi is waging the most severe systematic suppression of Christianity in the country since religious…
ISLAMIC STATE CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ATTACK ON COPTIC CHRISTIANS
Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on a bus loaded with Coptic Christians the day before near the southern city of Minya, which officials said killed 29 people. “A security team of caliphate soldiers set up an ambush for dozens of Christians as they headed to the church of St. Samuel,” the militant group…