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Editorial
Contents
Timeline
Albrecht
Hauser
Do we really
hear the cry of
our brothers and
sisters in need, or
are we constantly
preoccupied by
our own wellbeing?
10
Pull-out
4 Compassion in Action
Dawa
11
12
Advocacy
12
15
Newsdesk - Behind
the headlines
16
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In Touch
Boko Haram
Barnabas supporters
in their own words
Armenian
winter survival
Saved by books
Sawra Village:
shelter for
displaced
The flood-damaged home of this family in Sri Lanka was repaired with help from Barnabas Fund
This seminar in Central Asia helped convert leaders to realise how their lifestyle
had to change to become more Biblical, in the midst of an Islamic culture
Compassion in Action
Challenged
to change
Trusting God
amid death threats
Armenian Genocide
Forgotten
genocide:
as it unfolded
1878
1891
1894-1896
1915 January
Young Turks leader, Talaat: no
room for Christians in Turkey
(Reported by New York Times)
Under the guise of military
stratagem, Turkish authorities
begin a violent relocation of Greek
Christian communities located
around the Black Sea
1914
1915 March
Deportation of Armenians from
Zeitun begins
Turkey disarms Armenian men serving
in Ottoman army
1911
1915 April
Deportation of Armenians from
Zeitun ends (total 25,000)
Armenian intelligentsia deported and
later killed
Staff of a leading Armenian
newspaper arrested and later killed
1909
1915 May
Ezerum Province: mass
deportations begin; 200 Armenian
leaders arrested
Assyrians declare war on Turkey
The Allies (England, France,
and Russia) issue a joint official
declaration holding the Ottoman
1908
1915 February
Young Turks leaders Talaat, Enver
and Jemal create the Executive
Committee of Three who were
responsible for the organisation and
implementation of the deportation
and massacre of all Armenians in the
Ottoman Empire
Armenian Genocide
1915 August
1,000 Armenians burned alive in Bitlis
Deportation of Armenians from
Adabazar, Mersin, Izmir, Bursa
1915 July
2,000 Armenian soldiers in Turkish
army massacred
Deportations from Trebizond,
Sivas (48,000), Aintab, Kilis and
Adiaman. Many slaughtered en route
to the Syrian desert
1915 October
Turkey blocks exit of Armenians to US
1915 November
Turkey blocks attempted relief effort
by US organisation
1915 December
Deportations of Armenians
from Constantinople
1939
1923
1916
1915 June
Coordinated attack to drive
Assyrians out of Turkey into Persia
and Armenians told to leave within
five days
Turks massacre Assyrian
settlements in the Bohtan region
leading to the death of the Assyrian
scholar, Addai Sher
Armenians from Erzinjan deported to
Syrian desert
Massacre of 25,000 Armenians from
Erzerum province
Armenian notables of Trebizond
thrown, tightly bound, into
Black Sea
1922
1917
1918
1921
1920
1919
Armenian Genocide
Experts in the
art of dying
...Pull-out
DAWA
The Islamic Strategy for
Reshaping the Modern World
3
Dawa and Islamisation
through violence and jihad
Pull-out
Violence in Islam
Military jihad
Pull-out
Religious cleansing
Iraq
Syria
Nigeria
Destabilisation of states
Pull-out
Preventing individuals
from leaving Islam
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Cameron Blair
I started receiving
Barnabas Aid and
Barnabas Prayer
when I was 18 years
old. Last year one of
the magazine issues had a call for
church partners throughout New
Zealand. I thought, I can make a
difference here.
I think theres great potential in
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The question is, how can you keep
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You can pray for church members.
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Church. You can make a difference
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Campaigns
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Why act?
Correction
A familiar story?
UK readers can find their local MPs details at the following website: www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-your-mp/contacting-your-mp
Newsdesk
Displaced elderly Christian among the many who have fled their homes along the
Khabur River
Islamic State (IS) fighters in the
north-eastern region of Hassake
raided numerous villages along the
Khabur River in the early hours of 23
February, abducting those who did
not manage to flee.
Men, women and children, including
the entire population of the village of
Tel Shamiram, were captured. Local
residents overheard the militants
confirm on wireless devices that they
were holding the crusaders, who were
alive but the men had been separated
from the women and children.
Islamic State in
Libya behead
21 Christians
Libya
In Brief
Christian
Rise of antiTaliban suicide
Montagnards
Christian violence bomb church
in Tanzanias
attacks Pakistan flee Vietnam and
take refuge in
coastal areas
At least 16 people were killed and over
Cambodia
70 injured when suicide bombers
Pakistan
Tanzania
Indian Prime
Minister speaks
out for religious
minorities
Nepalese
Christians forced
to convert to
Buddhism
Vietnam
Nepal
India
Kenyan church
leader shot dead
in Mombasa city
Kenya
On
Analysiss
Saturday 21
Febr uar y
Boko Haram
militants
attacked an
island on
Boko Haram was founded in 2002 by Nigerian Islamist cleric Mohammed
Nigers side of Lake Chad, but were
Yusuf. The popular name, which is in the local Hausa language, is usually
repelled by the Nigerien army.
translated as Western education is forbidden but they themselves want to
Preceding this, the border town Diffa
be known by the Arabic name Jama'atu ahlis sunna lidda'awati wal-jihad
saw a wave of raids by the militants,
means People committed to the propagation of the prophets teaching and
and on 9 February five people were
jihad. The group developed out of African post-colonial dissatisfaction.
killed in a car bomb.
Newly-formed governments attempted to oversee largely destitute peoples
Boko Harams first fatal attack in
whose primary identity was a mixture of religious, ethnic and tribal. These
Chad took place in Ngouboua, a village
government territories did not reflect cultural, ethnic or religious divisions.
near Lake Chad, on 13 February. A
In Nigeria, the Muslim-majority north is more impoverished than the
spokesperson for Chads armed forces
Christian-majority south. The north had previously been
said five people died in the
NIGER Lake Chad
CHAD
subject to sharia law, but a settlement in 1960 reduced
raid: a local chief, a police
Bosso
Ngouboua
sharia laws influence in favour of state-run systems.
officer and three civilians.
Fotokol
Kano
In the next two decades as Islamic fundamentalism
Dozens of militants arrived
Potiskum
Kolofata
Biu
became prominent in the Middle East, so it emerged
by motorised canoe, burning
Jos
in discontented northern Nigeria, culminating in riots
houses, and then attacked a
NIGERIA
against the Nigerian government in the 1980s.
police station.
Yusuf was a Salafi (Wahhabi) Muslim and came
Boko Haram, which has
CAMEROON
BENIN
from the Kanuri ethnic group (as do most members of
also continued to wreak
Boko Haram violence spreads to
Boko Haram). He rejected the infidel secular state and
violence in Nigeria and
strove for a purer Islamic one. He wanted to re-establish
Cameroon, is believed to be Niger and Chad
a caliphate in lands that had belonged to the successful,
expanding its movements
and later Islamic, Kanem-Borno Empire: predominantly northern Nigeria,
in response to the formation of the
Cameroon, Chad and Niger. This explains the groups opposition to any kind
Multinational Joint Task Force, a
of education that is nor purely Islamic, and their violence towards Christians
regional force made up of soldiers
(whom classical Islam says should be fought until they submit to Islamic
from Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Niger
rule), to governmental security forces who try to hinder their agenda, and to
and Benin, numbering around 8,700.
moderate Muslims who do not share their vision for a pure Islamic state.
The forces formation was backed by
In 2009 Boko Haram further radicalised after escalating violence
African Union countries to combat
between it and the Nigerian police resulted in the killing of around 700
Boko Haram on 30 January and has
militants and the execution of Yusuf. His successor, Abubakar Shekau,
successfully reclaimed some land
increased the groups insurgency, drawing many fighters from poorly
captured by the Islamists, most notably
educated, disadvantaged backgrounds.
Baga town in which up to 2,000
Boko Haram originally had a mostly local focus for its jihad (holy war)
residents were killed on 3 January.
mainly in north-east Nigeria and more recently across the borders into
The militant group hold around
neighbouring states. But it is thought to have had guidance and help from
20,000 square miles (approximately
Al-Qaeda or one of its affiliates. However, in early March 2015 Boko Haram
50,000 square km ) of territory (the
pledged its allegiance to Islamic State (IS); this may mean that Boko Haram
size of Belgium) in north-east Nigeria
will be able to develop a more sophisticated propaganda and information
and have established an Islamic
strategy. It may also lead to Boko Haram striking more at Western targets.
Caliphate (state under sharia law).
A stretch of the Libyan coast. Twenty-one Egyptian Christian hostages were killed near here.
When asked what he would say if he
were asked to forgive Islamic State
(IS) militants for killing his two
younger brothers, Beshir Kamel gave
this response:
My mother, an uneducated
woman in her sixties, said she would
ask [the executioner] to enter her
house and ask God to open his eyes
because he was the reason her son
entered the Kingdom of Heaven.
Kamel, whose brothers, aged
23 and 25, were amongst 21
Christians beheaded by IS in Libya
on 15 February, spoke bravely in an
interview with a Christian television
channel. He particularly thanked
Grace
Christian child
in Syria can live
and smile again
Amid all the tragic news from Syria
about childrens lives blighted by war,
comes a story of hope.
"Milad", an eleven-year old Syrian
Christian boy now considers a shelter
built and funded by Barnabas as his
home. He lives there with his family
and eleven other Christian families.
Milad describes it as a place where"we
can hope and dream".
I love everything [about the
shelter], he said. We have nice
rooms and a big lobby, we have a huge
kitchen and a big yard to play in, and
of course I love it because it is so close
to the church.
Milad and his family fled from
their home in Homs in February
2011 after armed rebels took over
their neighbourhood. He remembers,
I always wished that what was
happening in my city is not real and
that it is only a bad nightmare it will
disappear when I wake up.
Last year, after hearing that their
neighbourhood had been cleared
from armed groups, they went to
see what remained. My house was
ruined and my room was burned.
I lost my books, toys. I only have
memories now in my mind and
heart, he says.
Now this shelter is my house after
we lost our house in Homs, he says.
We are like a family. I have so much
fun with all the children. Being here
has made me believe that we still have
a bright sight in the world we can live
and smile again.
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