Posted 2014-04-04 (AFP) As Iraq suffers its worst violence in years, gangs claiming ties to powerful militias have been commandeering empty homes in Baghdad with little official sanction, victims and rights groups…
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Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – The way and instrumental and misleading tones with which certain Western circles launch warnings concerning the persecution suffered by Christians in the Middle East responds to political calculations…
By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 A Coptic Christian woman, 25, was pulled from her car and brutally beaten and stabbed to death by a mob of…
30 March 2014 BEIRUT: The case of the bishops kidnapped in Syria for almost a year is complicated, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of Lebanon’s General Security, said in comments published Sunday,…
An Islamist attack on a Coptic Church in Cairo on Friday left four people dead. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood held demonttrations across the country in reaction against the official candidate in…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Aleppo was hit by a missle while the faithful were attending mass. The attack damaged the dome and broke…
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter, March 26, 2014 Violence in Egypt against Coptic Christians has continued despite the fall of former president Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, with believers still…
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation is complex. There is the hardness of a judgment that is not final, and we have to wait. In any case, the Church is against the…
A female Christian Syrian activist opposing the rule of President Bashar Assad was abducted by Islamist militants who disapproved of her participating in an outdoor protest while her hair was uncovered, a…
23-03-2014, ARA News Raqqa, Syria− Members of the al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed on Saturday a young man in the city of Raqqa, and…