“Taliban bans women from ‘hearing each other’s voices’”. The Telegraph calls this a ‘bizarre rule’, but a fundamental tactic of misogynist authoritarianism is to prevent communication between women. Otherwise they organise and resist. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

#Sudan War: I called on GOV.UK to engage with Sudan’s Tagadum - whom I met earlier today - and to call on the Security Council to extend the mandate of ICC from Darfur to the whole of Sudan UN News

Fulani militias have killed 50,000 people in Nigeria over the past 4 years. Why does the U.K. Government refuse to believe the evidence of its own eyes? Collins of Highbury The International Committee on Nigeria has called the phenomenon a Christian Genocide. truthnigeria.com/2024/10/sectar…

Suspected #BokoHaram shock 6’ #video parading bound #captives (2 men,5 women, thought recent #abductees) in remote NE #Nigeria,b4 #beheading 4 (3 elderly #women spared).1 #woman beheaded by her #uncle ‘cos we don’t share same #faith as her’. 2 men said to b w. #Nigerian #RedCross

ACN #reports #Christians nr #Mopti,#Mali forced to #pay $40 ‘jizya’ #tax. (Be4 this, only allowed #services w’out #music instruments).#Failure to pay=#threat to close #Catholic & #Protestant #churches“If auths don’t act, ppl will pay #taxes directly into coffers of #terrorists”

Read Dr.Mukwege's Full Statement: DRC -1 victim every 4 minutes. christinalamb Alex Crawford lyse doucet John Simpson Dr Ewelina U. Ochab Baroness Helena Kennedy KC Collins of Highbury The Lord (Tariq)Ahmad of Wimbledon KCMG fiona hodgson Arminka Helic Joyce Anelay Joanna Cherry KC See: davidalton.net/2024/11/01/wri…

Knew #JohnSmyth (& many close to him) personally, as #Christian #teen in #village nr #Winchester. But of no interest to him, as ‘only’ a #girl at local #grammar #school. Once, on walk, pointed out his #garden to mum…no thought then he’d bring this on #Archbishop of #Canterbury

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My friend the N #Koreadefector..#RedWed we #remember those,who-like him-are #persecuted simply for their #Christian #faith.He told of waking up in #prison 1 am to find man crammed in back-to-back w him #died in the night,&’I saw a man #executed when I was 11’. #Resilient #courage

⁦⁦⁦⁦@BMA⁩ Hse4 #Theos #annual #lecture Does #future have a church? Panel ⁦Madeleine Davies⁩ ⁦Mike Royal⁩ ⁦⁦Dr Mary Harrington⁩ ⁦Justin Brierley⁩:#BBC#TV #Head#Religion&#Ethics:can #ppl distinguish betw. #institutional #failings & #experience #local #church

#AsstDyingBill bef4 Shannon’s #bill: calls 4 UK Envoy to promote #freedom #religion/belief. Support from Hunt “#religious freedom doesn’t seem to b impt to new govt”. Shannon“UK giving state #aid, w’out challenge, to regimes w poor record on FoRB, risks pple #persecuted 4 #faith”

10 men(age 16-31) fr. #Kuki-Zo community #Manipur died in reported ’gunfight’w police,who claim “militants” attacked police station/camp. BUT post-mortem reports cast doubt on acts of paramilitary force Nov11. All 10 had multiple gunshot wounds fr. behind, indicates their flight

Guardian reports US declaration that Sudan’s paramilitary forces have committed genocide during civil war Secretary Antony Blinken details pattern of ethnic violence with RSF killing civilians & blocking access to supplies @ Lord_Collins Coalition for Genocide Response Priti Patel MP theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…

#Christians rallying outside the #Pakistani Embassy in London!! They’re calling out the state for persecuting #Christians. #Christians make up only 1.8% of the population, yet they’re getting hit the hardest by these insane blasphemy laws. Faraz Pervaiz @EndBlasphemylws

Teen when this occurred. Then BBC journo '84, Roland Joffe's "Killing Fields" hit home; brutal life of #Cambodian fixer when his NYT Corr escaped. Later, friend in UN Assistance to #KhmerRouge #Tribunal. Duch, who killed 1000s, begged forgiveness indcatholicnews.com/news/52128

11yrs ago, reported #captured 230 #BBOG #Chibok (200+ #Christian) girls/women fr. #school about to sit #exams. 88 still #missing! Others returned, now #Mums of 4/5 #kids. Longer they were #hostage, harder to #reintegrate Dr. Aisha-Muhammed-Oyebode BBC Woman's Hour re @SOASevents & #exhibition

2 years since the beginning of the catastrophic war in Sudan: theguardian.com/world/2025/apr… As the UK fails to recognize the genocide in Sudan. See genocidewatch.com/single-post/th… & genocidewatch.com/single-post/th… Pilate Style world washes its hands of its responsibility. David Lammy APPG Sudans

#OnThisDay 1998 #KhmerRouge #PolPot died in his sleep. Never convicted for #genocide of c.2m, 1/4 of #Cambodian population from #starvation, #disease & #execution. His top interrogator became #Christian, felt weight of #evil, confessed, apologized & imprisoned to his #death 2020

Among recent #Syrian #Druze killed: Khalid Mezher, led Gd Shepherd Evang. #Church #Sweida + 20 family-siblings, children, parents. (Reports 1 young woman survived?) GrkOrth Church stress #violence not incidental but part of coordinated attack on #religious & #ethnic #minorities