DAMASCUS, Syria (BP) — For Hanna, a Syrian Christian mother living in Damascus, the country’s civil war is more than just statistics and news articles. “Every day when I walk to the…
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Daily Telegraph report: Terrorist violence against Christians has put the very survival of the religion in some regions in peril. We cannot stand idle, says Baroness Warsi. There are parts of the…
What Happened to Christians in the Middle East this August? :: Gatestone Institute
“It was the most difficult day of my life and I faced it with courage, entrusting myself completely to God so that He would suggest to me the words to address to…
Among the factors which encourage the exodus of Christians from Iraq there is also the practice adopted by many foreign embassies and consulates that facilitate the granting of visas for asylum to…
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…
“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…
Why has the suffering of the Middle Eastern Christian communities not ignited outrage and support from Western Christians? The answer has something to do with Israel and the Second Coming, writes Professor…
Rome, November 08, 2013 (Zenit.org) | In preparation for the 80thanniversary of the 1932-33 famine in the Ukraine the country’s churches have issued a statement. The famine was part of the terror…
Brussels (AINA) — Concerned Christian organizations from the Middle East met in Brussels today under the umbrella of the Middle East Christian Committee (MECHRIC) to demand action on the brutal and merciless…