Eshhad calculates that attacks on Christians accounted for about 89 % of
all attacks against religious minorities in Egypt over the past year, 17 of which were committed by Islamic State or its north African affiliate, Wilayat Sinai.
She said: «I think that there is a lot of high tension in the country, and there has been a culture of extremism that has allowed the majority population, regardless of what is motivating them, to attack and spiral
those attacks against religious minorities.
Attacks against religious minorities have assumed alarming proportions.»
In the last decade there's been a significant increase in
attacks against religious minorities in Indonesia.
Not exact matches
The violence in Gojra, a town of 150,000 that has long been a headquarters of the Anglican Church of Pakistan, was one of the worst
attacks ever
against the
religious minority.
Influenced by advisors whose white nationalists views are well known, the president has waged a propaganda war
against ethnic and
religious minorities, stoking fear and hate by lying about crime rates, terrorist
attacks, and voter fraud and by issuing executive orders that have already hurt many thousands of people around the world, including desperate refugee families.
In the face of threats to assimilate Christians, Dalits, and Adivasis into a homogeneous Hindu identity, as well as the violent
attacks against these
minorities, how can Christian theology tap into the energy that fuels the obstinate expression of their
religious and ethnocultural difference?