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Coptic Christians Threaten to Walk Out of Egyptian Constitution Talks

Frustrated by their seeming lack of efficacy in creating a more moderate Egyptian constitution, Coptic Christians have threatened to walk out on a committee charged with creating the new document. Thus far,…

Honoring Sheptytsky’s courage, seven decades later

NEW YORK – In the summer of 1941, when the German occupation of Lviv unleashed terror on the city’s residents, Kurt Lewin, the son of a prominent rabbi, made his way to…

Egypt’s Two-Front War for Democracy: New York Times

Cairo — Mariam Ashraf was an eight-year-old Coptic girl. On Oct. 20, she went with her family to the Church of the Virgin, in Cairo, for a relative’s wedding. She was thrilled…

Beleagured Syrian Christians fear fall of Assad | The Augusta Chronicle

“Though some Christians oppose Assad’s brutal crackdown on the opposition and the community has tried to stay on the sidelines in the civil war, the rebellion’s increasingly outspoken Islamist rhetoric and the…