by Samir Khalil Samir, S.J There are so many positive things in Evangelii gaudium, its urging Christians and Muslims towards a relationship in love and truth, to work for peace, to…
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Rome, January 21, 2014 (Zenit.org) Coptic Catholic bishops in Egypt have hailed the result of the referendum on the country’s new constitution, which they say represents a crucial step toward religious freedom and other…
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9 January 2014 – Ayatollah al-Sistani: the violence against Christians are a threat to the whole country Najaf (Agenzia Fides) – Violence that affect Christians in Iraq represent a loss for the…
Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Islamist groups have killed and beheaded a young Christian man, seriously wounding another. The incident, which occurred on 8 January, was reported to Fides only now by a…
Motherland Lost by Samuel Tadros Stanford £14.86 Writing in the late 1960s, Aziz Atiya begins his magisterial account of the Coptic Church, in A History of Eastern Christianity with this reassuring assertion:…
Christa Case Bryant, December 22 – CS Monitor The pews at First Baptist Church of Bethlehem fill quickly as congregants stream in on a Sunday night, some with fancy purses, others with…
RAS BAALBEK and AL-QAA, Lebanon — Christian villages on the Lebanese border with Syria are increasing security, both militarily and on the civilian level, following death threats by a local municipality figure and reports of…
Arabic language websites reported earlier this week that the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant—which, throughout the course of the war against the Syrian Bashar al-Assad government has committed any number of…
Qamishli (Agenzia Fides ) – “The exodus from the city is in full swing. Every day individuals and families in our community flee, especially young people, who are our hope and our…