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Iraq
Monday, February 6th, 2012
“Iraq's highest court ratified death sentences on Thursday for three men convicted of a 2010 attack on a Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad, the bloodiest attack on Iraqi Christians after the 2003 invasion,” Reuters reports.
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
“If the media shines a light consistently and clearly on the persecution of Middle Eastern Christians, that can make a crucial difference in restraining potential violence,” she said. “Silence on the other hand may do the opposite.”
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
"As President Barack Obama withdrew the last U.S. troops from Iraq on Dec. 15, he said they were leaving behind a 'sovereign, stable and self-reliant,' country...but there are signs that Iraqi Christians' plight has worsened since then."
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
“Nearly 100,000 Copts have fled Egypt since the ouster of Hosni Mubarak, chased by a series of increasingly violent pogroms at the hands of fanatics while the military often looked the other way,” The Globe and Mail reports.
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Monday, January 23rd, 2012
“Christian churches have been bombed more than 80 times since 2003, when the Iraq war began. [Juliana] Taimoorazy's presentation will describe how thousands of Iraqi Christians have been kidnapped for ransom or murdered because of their faith and ethnicity. Christian-owned businesses have been attacked and fear an escalation following the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports.
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Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
“Though it’s the birthplace of Christianity in ancient times, the modern Middle East is increasingly hostile to Christianity as civil conflict, Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism grow in scope and strength,” The Korea Times reports.
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Saturday, January 14th, 2012
Kurt J. Werthmuller, a research fellow at the Hudson Institute's Center for Religious Freedom, writes the first in a series of articles focusing on “the background, present status, and possible future of the Christian communities of several… key countries in the Arab world.”
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
“In North Africa and the Middle East, the Arab Spring is turning into a nightmarish experience for many Christians,” The Times of Malta reports. “From Tunisia to Egypt, Islamist parties have, as many realists had already predicted, gained the ascendancy. The leaders of these parties, despite being described optimistically by some high-placed western sources as being of moderate inclination, have already declared that Sharia will be the principal law in their countries.”
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
“Over the past 9 years it’s estimated that over 900 Christians have been killed and 54 churches attacked, the God Discussion reports.
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Friday, December 30th, 2011
“As the Arab Spring runs its course, the litmus test of whether democracy truly is taking root in Egypt and elsewhere in the region will be if the emerging rulers respect the rights of their Christian minorities,” The Jerusalem Post reports.
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Thursday, December 29th, 2011
“Despite long-term U.S. military occupations aimed at establishing representative governments in Iraq and Afghanistan, Christianity now faces the real threat of eradication in those countries because of severe and persistent persecution of Christians there, according to the chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom,” Catholic News Service reports.
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Wednesday, December 28th, 2011
“Iraq's dwindling Christian population marked Christmas on Sunday with religious leaders calling for peace,” Agence France-Presse reports.
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011
How far will the U.K. go to protect Christians in the Middle East?
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Sunday, December 25th, 2011
“Christians in Iraq have canceled several church services, including traditional Christmas Eve midnight Masses, amid fears of more violence after more than a dozen bombings in the capital Baghdad killed some 60 people this week and other violence claims at least 7 lives elsewhere,” BosNewsLife reports.
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
"While Christians in Iraq have long faced the threat of growing Islamism and violence, now Christians in Egypt – and Syria – are facing new pressures as a year of dramatic change wraps up," The Christian Science Monitor reports.
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
America needs to give shelter to persecuted believers in Muslim lands
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Saturday, December 24th, 2011
Christians living in the Middle East face great danger due to the increasing persecution. The World needs to pay attention to the unfolding plight of the persecuted Christians.
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
A new evil is sweeping the Middle East and the Foreign Office is failing to confront it.
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Friday, December 23rd, 2011
"Midnight Christmas Mass has been canceled in Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk as a consequence of the never-ending assassinations of Christians."
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
From Nigeria to Pakistan, Security Officials Taking Measures to Protect Christians From Violence
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