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In Egypt’s highly polarizing presidential campaign, both sides have been going for the jugular. Wild accusations have been flying, and Egyptians are seeing a return of old tricks that went on under the table during Hosni Mubarak’s regime, now used without inhibition. The campaign, in its final hours Wednesday ahead of the weekend election, is [...]

Egypt Christians rally behind rival of Islamists In the small southern Egyptian town of Azaziya, where almost all the residents are Christians, few doubt that nearly everyone who can is going to vote for Ahmed Shafiq, ousted leader Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister and his longtime friend, in this weekend’s presidential election. Shafiq’s candidacy has [...]

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard ordered the closure of a church in the capital, Tehran, amid a government campaign to crack down on the few recognized churches offering Farsi-speaking services. The church in Tehran’s northwestern district of Janat-Abad belongs to the Assemblies of God (AOG) Church in Iran. Its closure has hit a media headline in the [...]

A group of religious liberty organisations is calling upon Sri Lanka to officially recognise the country’s evangelical community. Evangelicals in Sri Lanka are represented by the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka. The organisation is a member of the World Evangelical Alliance and celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. The Religious Liberty Partnership has [...]

Sudan launched the campaign because the people of the Nuba Mountain region wanted freedom — that’s the opinion of Faith McDonnell of the Institute on Religion & Democracy. “Ever since that time, they’ve been bombing the Nuba with aerial bombardment,” she says. “They’ve been sending in militias to kill people and particularly targeting the Christians [...]