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Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has killed thousands of people in suppressing his country’s opposition movement. This is a crisis not just for Syria and the region, but for humanity and peoples of all faiths, and the Maronite Church in Lebanon has taken notice. Lebanon’s largest Christian body has long supported independence from dictatorship and military [...]

Islamic fundamentalists in Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, are attacking Christians with impunity. Indonesia’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion but rights groups say violence against minorities including Christians and the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect has escalated since 2008. In February 2011, a 1,500-strong mob of Muslims set two churches alight and ransacked a third [...]

It was a terrifying Christmas in 2007 for tribal and dalit Christians who live in the second poorest, deeply forested district of Odisha, Kandhamal. Long-smouldering violence targeting them exploded, and was to continue to rage for another full year. During this time, 600 villages were ransacked, 5,600 houses were looted and burnt, 54,000 persons rendered [...]

As the eradication of Islamic extremism in Nigeria appears to lag, and the animosity between the Muslim population of the North and mostly southern Christian population fails to cease, many observers call for the Christian community to put a greater pressure on the Nigerian government. The international Christian community can do a lot to help, [...]