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Yazidis Face Forced Conversion to Islam Amid Fresh Persecution in Afrin

By By Patrick Cockburn - The Independent - The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are now...

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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...

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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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Al Qaeda Is Starting to Swallow the Syrian Opposition

By Charles Lister – Foreign Policy -On the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, moderate rebels have never been weaker — and jihadis have...

- March 17, 2017 0

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Working to Protect Christian Communities in the Middle East

By Congressman Brad ShermanDear Friend,As a member of the Congressional Caucus on Religious Minorities in the Middle East, and the International Religious Freedom Caucus,...

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ISIL Prepares for ‘Apocalyptic’ Battle to Hold Dabiq, Syria

ISIL Prepares for 'Apocalyptic' Battle to Hold Dabiq, SyriaBy World Tribune October 5, 2016Islamic State of Iraq and Levant (ISIL) has sent 800 additional jihadists...

- October 7, 2016 0

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Genocide and Persecution: What’s Next for Iraq’s Christians?

Genocide and Persecution: What’s Next for Iraq's Christians?By Matt Hadro – Catholic.org (via AINA)September 10, 2016"Together, we will advocate for the Christian, Yazidi, and other...

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My Boy,3, was Brainwashed to Kill for ISIS

My Boy,3, was Brainwashed to Kill for ISISThe Sunday TimesSeptember 11, 2016 By the time he was 11, Ahmed could use an AK-47, move like a...

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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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