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Last week, the official results for the first round of the Egyptian presidential elections ended in a run-off between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsy and former Mubarak PM Ahmad Shafik. However, many Islamists blame Egypt’s Christian Copts for voting for Shafik, characterizing them as traitors who are trying to bring bring back the old Mubarak [...]

The great challenge for Christianity in the Sudan, especially in the southern part of the country, is closely linked to the civil war between Sudan’s North and South. This war has raged intermittently since 1955, making it possibly the longest civil conflict in the world. It continues unabated, mostly outside the focus of diplomacy or [...]

More than 35,000 Sudanese Muslim refugees have recently fled into neighboring South Sudan to escape fighting, officials said. More than 35,000 refugees from Sudan’s southern Blue Nile state have sought asylum in South Sudan ( Muslim north and heavily Christian population south) in the past three weeks, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Andrej Mahecic said. Fighting erupted in [...]