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Christian, Yazidi Women Still in ISIS Captivity

By Sirwan Kajjo - Gatestone Institute Despite losing control of Raqqa and other major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, ISIS continues to keep many of...

- April 16, 2018 0

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Iraqi Christians Fear Another Wave of Persecution: Chaldean Archbishop

By Michael Kelly - Catholic News ServiceA Chaldean Catholic archbishop from southern Iraq has warned that the country's beleaguered Christian community still feels pessimistic about...

- December 22, 2017 0

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The UN doesn’t recognize the Christian genocide in Iraq. This new documentary does.

By Miriam Diez Bosch - Aleteia"It's been an authentic genocide, according to the definition in international law."“For me, it has been a very intense...

- November 16, 2017 0

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A Christian Ban?

By Lolita Brayman – Foreign Policy -The Trump administration has decided to deport Iraqi Christians back to their dangerous homeland, and the timing is...

- July 6, 2017 0

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The Yazidis Of Iraq Are Disappearing From The Country

By Mark Chamoun - thepavlovictoday (via AINA) -It has now been a year since a UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry determined that ISIS' violence...

- June 20, 2017 0

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ISIS Suicide Bomber Got £1m from UK Taxpayer

John Simpson – The Times UK -A British Islamic State suicide bomber who targeted coalition forces in Mosul was a former Guantanamo Bay detainee...

- February 22, 2017 0

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In Rejecting Refugee Priority, Middle Eastern Christians Act Like Abuse Victims

By Luma Simms - The Federalist (via AINA) -The time since President Trump's executive order temporarily halting some Middle Eastern immigration has been distressing...

- February 14, 2017 0

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ISIS child snipers and tunnels turn battle for Mosul into a ‘nightmare’

By The TimesIraqi forces trying to recapture Mosul have been stymied by Islamic State child snipers lying in wait in a “city of tunnels”...

- November 11, 2016 0

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Egypt: Copt and son killed in IS attack September 7, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesPrayers in Deir El-Garnouse Coptic church, near Al-Minya in Upper Egypt, after Islamic State opened fire on a convoy carrying Copts, killing at least 28 people in May 2017. A Christian father and son were killed by suspected Islamic State militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula on 30 August. The two Copts, Salama […]
Egypt: Father and son stabbed in latest attack on Copts August 12, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesCopts in Egypt have been targeted in a string of attacks this year. An elderly Coptic Christian and his son who run an off-license shop in Giza, central Egypt, were hospitalized after they were severely injured in an attack. Joseph Israel, 70, was sitting outside his shop in the Omrania district in […]
Egypt: Copt stabbed seven times by neighbour who’d lured in his son March 24, 2022
An Egyptian Christian was stabbed multiple times when he tried to rescue his son who was held against his will by a Muslim neighbour in Alexandria. On the night of 15 February, Magdy Fathy Shehata Awad Allah, deacon at the Coptic Orthodox Church in the northeast of Alexandria and a human rights activist, was rushed […]
Egypt: Coptic Christian imprisoned for 5 years for ‘blasphemy’ February 9, 2022
Embed from Getty ImagesA police man enters a prison on the outskirts of Egypt’s capital Cairo. A Coptic Christian has been sentenced to five years in prison for blasphemy, according to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, or EIPR, which represented him during his trial. On 29 January the Cairo Economic Court found Marco Gerges […]

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