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Yazidi Massacre in Afrin: Children Killed, Villages Bombed, Temples Destroyed

By Uzay Bulut - Christian Post (via AINA) ـYazidis, a historically persecuted non-Muslim people in the Middle East, are yet again fleeing for their...

- March 28, 2018 0

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Turkey Confiscating Christian Property, Prohibiting Christians From Worshiping

By LibertyNews (via AINA) -The government of Turkey is now confiscating Christian property and prohibiting Christians worshipping in their churches, which have also been...

- December 4, 2017 0

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Tunisian Religious Reforms Challenge Egypt’s Al Azhar

By Hany Ghoraba - Special to IPT NewsTunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi marched straight into a battle with Egypt's highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar's mosque...

- September 19, 2017 0

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Christians in Turkish City of Diyarbikir Facing Mass Persecution

By The Alabama BaptistTurkey -- it sometimes slips out of view since it doesn't make the Secretary of State's "Countries of Particular Concern" list...

- September 19, 2017 0

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Decimated Muslim Brotherhood Still Inspires Fear. Its Members Wonder Why.

By Patrick Kingsley, The New York TimesFor Magdy Shalash, an Egyptian exile living here in Istanbul, Turkey, there is a certain irony to a...

- July 17, 2017 0

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What’s behind the Turkish “seizure” of Church properties?

By John Burger - Aleteia1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing disputeTurkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards Christian...

- July 3, 2017 0

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Soft Sharia in Turkey

By Burak Bekdil - The Gatestone InstituteThe good news about Turkish justice is that despite 15 years of not-so-creeping Islamization, court verdicts do not...

- June 21, 2017 0

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Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians in Turkey on the Verge of Extinction

By Uzay Bulut - AINA -The current Greek population in Turkey is estimated at fewer than 2,000. But this population decline was not due...

- February 16, 2017 2

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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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