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In the daily drumbeat of Mideast news, there is one story of historic proportion that is nearly unreported: the growing persecution and systematic destruction in the Islamic world of some of the world’s oldest Christian communities. We hear when a Catholic bishop is murdered in Iraq, when machete-armed fanatics attack Egyptian Copt worshipers, or when [...]

One Northern Nigerian state has been almost entirely cleared of Christians; they have been forced to flee the relentless campaign of violence against them by militant Islamist group Boko Haram. Anti-Christian violence is increasing in Northern Nigeria The Rev. Garba Idi, chairman of the Yobe State chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), said [...]

Eight Christian families have been evicted from an Egyptian village in a “humiliating” agreement made to placate Muslims who had twice attacked Christian property there. Three “reconciliation meetings” involving Christian and Muslim representatives were held at the Kobry-el-Sharbat village police headquarters following an onslaught of violence by a mob of Muslims on 27 January. They [...]

Central Asia, Turkmenistan. An elderly Christian man was detained and questioned for six hours by police in Turkmenistan after he tried to print copies of a small book of his Christian poetry. There are tight controls on all publishing in Turkmenistan Begjan Shirmedov (77) was forced to write a statement and banned from travelling outside [...]

Mauritania, very proud to be officially a pure Muslim country, does not include any provisions for religious freedom in its constitution, and its laws prohibit conversion to Christian faith. The sentence for apostasy is death. In Mauritania, it is extremely difficult to be a Christian. Pressure on Believers from a Muslim Background from family and [...]

Hundreds of Syrian Christians have been killed and several Christians kidnapped as fighting rages between government forces and rebels, an aid group working in the region reported. “The key battleground of Homs is encircled by fighters from both sides, leaving the Christians there and in the surrounding villages – approximately 100,000 – in the firing [...]