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Today’s Maundy Thursday House of Lords Debate on Syria: A Modern Day Calvary. Why those who have slaughtered Christians, Yazidis and other Minorities...

By Lord David Alton (CB)- Speech given during Maundy Thursday House of Lords Debate on SyriaA modern day Calvary ....3.09 pmMy Lords, I begin by paying tribute...

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Sen. Rubio Urges Help for Displaced Middle East Christians

By Order of St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchatehttps://youtu.be/j4V-DU5YvOwSen. Marco Rubio emphasized Wednesday that with the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle...

- December 15, 2017 0

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The Middle East Is Nearing an Explosion

By Robert Malley - The AtlanticFear is the one thing preventing it—but could also precipitate it.BEIRUT—Lebanon has long been a mirror for the broader...

- November 9, 2017 0

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Book review: ‘The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East,’ by Ronald J. Rychlak and Jane F. Adolphe

By Stephen Herreid - Acton InstituteA book about religious persecution is perhaps an unusual place to find a call for Western rejuvenation. Yet readers...

- September 21, 2017 0

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Where Do Languages Go to Die? When Aramaic Was Middle East’s Lingua France

By John McWhorter - The Atlantic (via AINA) -The tale of Aramaic, a language that once ruled the Middle East and now faces extinctionIf...

- September 14, 2017 0

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Want to defeat the legacy of ISIS? Try rebuilding non-Muslim communities it has destroyed.

The Washington Post - By Alberto FernandezAlberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, served as the State Department’s coordinator for...

- May 24, 2017 0

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Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East

By Bar Daisan - AINA NewsThe future of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a panel discussion at the Munich Security...

- March 14, 2017 0

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Jesus didn’t “turn the other cheek”—neither should you

By R. Robert McTeigue, SJ - AleteiaIt’s time to talk about resisting evilWhat’s the second most misunderstood passage of Scripture? (The first: “Judge not,...

- February 23, 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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