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** 'We Were Commanded [by Allah] to Kill You': The Persecution of Christians, June 2025 ([link removed])
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by Raymond Ibrahim • July 27, 2025 at 5:00 am
* The attackers, chanting "Allahu Akbar," attempted to storm St. Joseph's Church, where 700 mostly Christian Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) were sleeping. — Nigeria.
* Persecution of Christians across Africa continues with brutal intensity, especially in regions plagued by Muslim militancy... In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where roughly 95% of the population is Christian, Muslim groups are responsible for horrific violence. The European Parliament has labeled ISCAP, an ISIS affiliate, "the deadliest armed group in the DRC."
* "The horrific killing of Kashif Masih is not just a tragedy—it is a damning indictment of the justice system in Pakistan. That a man could be tortured to death under false allegations, and that the police failed to act promptly or conduct a proper investigation, shows the systemic discrimination Christians face daily. The failure to collect crucial evidence and the reluctance to pursue justice...." — britishasianchristians.org, June 2, 2025.
* When the Christian couple reported the rape to Saddar Police Station, officer Muhammad Sikander tried to bribe them with Rs. 150,000 (about $500 USD) to drop the case and leave the area. When they refused, Intekhab was beaten. — Pakistan.
* "The case is a tragic but familiar reminder of the dangerous intersection of gender-based violence and religious persecution. Sexual violence against minority women is not rare – it's a systemic human rights emergency that is often met with silence and inaction.... These [Christian and non-Muslim] women are isolated, marginalized and viewed as disposable." — morningstarnws.org, June 24, 2024, Pakistan.
* "There's no law in Pakistan that criminalizes forced faith conversion." While the constitution guarantees freedom of religion, that freedom "is routinely violated when minors are coerced into Islam through abduction and sham marriages... [E]very delay in justice sends the message that Christian girls are disposable." — Albert Patras, rights advocate, morningstarnews.org, June 23, 2025.
* Islamic law makes it very difficult for all victims of rape, not only Christian women, to prove rape because it demands proof by four reliable male witnesses. — Sonja Dahlmans, author of "Hidden Crimes, Public Deception: The Epidemic of the Disappearance of Coptic Girls and Women in Egypt."
* On June 18, the European Parliament approved a €4 billion financial aid package to Egypt — despite that country's mounting persecution of Christians, including a recent court ruling to evict monks and seize one of Christianity's holiest sites: the 1,500-year-old Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai.
* Human Rights Watch released a damning report exposing the systematic misuse of Pakistan's blasphemy laws to target religious minorities—especially Christians and Ahmadis—as well as the poor. Titled "A Conspiracy to Grab the Land," it details how false blasphemy accusations are weaponized to incite mob violence, displace vulnerable communities, and seize their property with near-total impunity.
* On June 6, International Christian Concern exposed the widespread, systemic persecution of Christians living under Islamic law (sharia) across countries like Brunei, Iran, Yemen, Pakistan, and the Maldives.

On June 22, a gun and suicide bomb attack in Mar Elyas Greek Orthodox Church in Damascus murdered 25 Christians and wounded nearly 70. At least two armed Muslim men attacked inside the church during Sunday mass, when it was packed with 350 worshippers. Pictured: Some of the destruction wreaked by the attackers in Mar Elyas. (Photo by Ali Haj Suleiman/Getty Images)

The following are among the abuses and murders inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of June 2025.

The Muslim Slaughter of Christians

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