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Turkey bans Wikipedia for documenting regime’s backing of ISIS

By World Tribune - Turkey has imposed a ban on Wikipedia after it said the online encyclopedia refused to remove two English-language pages which cited...

- May 21, 2018 0

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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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ISIS Steps Up Threats To Tourists, Christians, Government, Military In Egypt As Elections Approach

By MEMRIAhead of the Egyptian presidential elections (slated for March 26-28), and in light of the large-scale campaign launched by the Egyptian military against...

- February 22, 2018 0

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Chaldean Archbishop: 1400 Years of Muslim Persecution

By Mark Pattison - Catholic News ServiceIf Christians in the Middle East are going to be "honest" with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop...

- February 19, 2018 0

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Coptic Solidarity Commemorates Third Anniversary of Coptic Martyrs

For Immediate Release(Washington, DC) February 15, 2018Three years ago, on this day, February 15, 2015 ISIS released a video titled “A Message Signed With...

- February 15, 2018 0

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Church built to honour beheaded Copts, but families still waiting for bodies’ return

By WorldWatch Monitor -February 15 marks the third anniversary of the beheading of 20 Egyptian Copts and a Ghanaian Christian, carried out by IS on...

- February 14, 2018 0

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The Jihad on Sufism

By Raymond Ibrahim - Frontpage MagazineOn Friday, November 24, some 30 gunmen carrying the Islamic State flag bombed and stormed a Sufi mosque in...

- November 27, 2017 0

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Raqqa Liberated After Three Years of ISIS Occupation

By International Christian ConcernChristians Left in a Tense Situation as Violence Continues in Syria10/17/2017 Washington D.C. - International Christian Concern (ICC) has learned that...

- October 18, 2017 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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