Posts Tagged ‘death’
by The Library of Congress When I saw former President Muammar Gaddafi being pulled from a drainage pipe, covered with blood, disoriented and still thinking he was in charge, my heart was grieved as I watched how the people were beating him and ended up shooting him. Let me explain. My heart was grieved [...]
by Bibliothèque de Toulouse Iran’s Supreme Court in has ordered a re-trial for a pastor sentenced to death for apostasy. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani has refused to recant his faith in Jesus Christ in appeals hearings, despite being told that the death sentence would be overturned if he did so. The sudden turn-around by the [...]
by San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives The man who shot dead the Governor of Punjab Province over his support for reform to blasphemy laws has been sentenced to death. Mumtaz Qadri admitted killing Salman Taseer in January because of his support for changes to the controversial laws, which rights groups say are [...]
by Museum of Hartlepool The last week has taken Christian, in Christian Family, artist John Waller to the heights of joy and the depths of sorrow. Last Thursday, he celebrated the birth of his son Josiah Emmanuel Waller, only to be crushed by the unexpected death of his mother one day later. Joyce Scarbrough [...]
by Nationaal Archief Christian Solidarity Worldwide says doubts have been raised over reports that the death penalty has been overturned for an Iranian pastor. The Agence France-Presse reported on Sunday that Iran’s supreme court had decided to annul Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s death sentence for apostasy. CSW said Christian, in Christian Family,s in Iran had [...]
by Nationaal Archief A death sentence for a house church pastor in Iran has reportedly been annulled by the supreme court. Yusef Nadarkhani was sentenced to death for apostasy last December after being arrested whilst trying to register a house church in his home town of Rasht in 2009. His lawyer, Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, [...]
by Brooklyn Museum The death sentence for a pastor found guilty of apostasy in Iran has been upheld by the country’s Supreme Court. Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani was arrested in October 2009 while attempting to register his evangelical house church in the city of Rasht. According to Christian, in Christian Family, Solidarity Worldwide (CSW), his [...]
by The Library of Congress Anglican mission agency USPG has expressed its sorrow over the death of the Rev George Wauchope. Rev Wauchope was a tutor in Mission Education at the USPG-Methodist sponsored Selly Oak Centre for Mission Studies in Birmingham. He died after a long struggle with cancer on May 26. USPG said [...]
by Bergen Public Library Nigeria has erupted in yet another terrible round of violence in which hundreds of Christians were killed; hundreds of churches and Christian business were burned down or destroyed, all in the aftermath of the recent presidential election. Nigerian’s Christian President Goodluck Jonathan last month won a presidential election in a [...]
by State Library of Queensland, Australia It’s been 10 years now since al-Qaeda carried out what US President Barack Obama called the worst attack on the American people in US history. Nearly 3,000 people were killed when four planes were hijacked, two of them crashing into the Twin Towers in New York City and [...]
