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Our Religious Institutions Must Be Purified of ISIS and Muslim Brotherhood Cells: Egyptian TV Host

Egyptian TV host Muhammad Al-Dasuqi Rushdi criticized the religious institutions of his country in a January 16 address on Al-Nahar TV, saying that a...

Libya Enters 2016 Fray, As Numbers of Jihadists Sewll

Republicans are pushing the Obama administration to expand the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to Libya, where the number...

Libya Enters 2016 Fray, As Numbers of Jihadists Sewll

    Estimates place the number of ISIS fighters in Libya between 5,000 and 6,500, up from 2,000 to 3,000 last year.   It threatens to turn Libya...

Pope and Russian Orthodox Leader Meet in Historic Step

    Pope Francis on Friday became the first pontiff to ever meet a patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, as the two Christian leaders set...

Coptic Teens Tried for Video ‘Mimicking Jihadists’

    Younan’s first hearing took place in Minya (223km south of Cairo) on 29 Oct., 2015. The hearing had been postponed twice before. On 31...

Boko Haram Female Suicide Bombers Kill 58 in Nigerian Camp

    Relief officials in Nigeria’s Borno state said dozens of others were spared when a third bomber refused to detonate her explosives when she discovered...

Concern for Christians in the Middle East helps drive historic meeting between Catholic, Orthodox leaders

  While Pope Francis has met with other Orthodox leaders, including Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, he has never met with the Russian Orthodox patriarch, who...

Coptic Church Recognizes Martyrdom of 21 Coptic Christians

Pope Tawadros II announced that the names of the martyrs will be inserted into the Coptic Synaxarium, the Oriental Church’s equivalent to the Roman...

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