Archive | August 15, 2012
Syria. The christian community is caught in the crossfire of a civil war.

Syria. The christian community is caught in the crossfire of a civil war.

The civil conflict in Syria has become a proxy war fought by global and regional powers. The potential fallout ranges from the exodus of many of its 2.1 million Christians from what they fear will be a Sunni-dominated post-Assad Syria, to the emergence of Kurdish areas in Syria as a new flashpoint in Turkey’s intermittent [...]

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Egypt. Letter calls for “kill or attack the enemies of the religion of Allah”–the Christians”

Egypt. Letter calls for “kill or attack the enemies of the religion of Allah”–the Christians”

An image of a copy of the letter appears on El Fegr’s website. Titled “An Urgent and Important Notice,” it begins by calling on “all brothers and sisters” to “kill or physically attack the enemies of the religion of Allah–the Christians in all of Egypt’s provinces, the slaves of the Cross, Allah’s curse upon them…” [...]

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Nepal. caller threatened to bomb church if they did not give money.

Nepal. caller threatened to bomb church if they did not give money.

A Catholic church in Nepal says it has received threatening phone calls from a person claiming to belong to an underground Hindu group that bombed the church three years ago. Robin Giri of Assumption Church in the southern suburbs of Katmandu said Tuesday that the caller last week threatened to bomb the church if they [...]

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