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60 Years, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate

Persecutions

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Egypt

Egypt extends detention of Coptic Christian arrested for fighting for equality and civil rights for Christians

February 12, 2020 3:42 pm
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Congo

Democratic Republic of Congo: Pastor martyred for refusing jihadists’ demand he convert to Islam

February 11, 2020 5:13 pm
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Egypt

Egypt: Man with a history of attacking Christians blocks priest’s car and attacks him with stones

February 10, 2020 1:13 pm
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China

China: Christians forced to choose state benefits or faith, told “You are allowed to worship Xi Jinping only”

February 9, 2020 5:26 pm
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India

India: Hindu radical ‘anoints’ Christians with water and cow dung to ‘purify’ them from their faith

February 8, 2020 2:51 pm
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India

India: Hindu Extremists Beat Christian Children, Accuse Worshippers

February 7, 2020 1:16 pm
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Turkish state media: “Restoration” of Hagia Sofia “Mosque” in Edirne will be completed during next Ramadan

February 6, 2020 1:27 pm
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China

China: Banning Christmas as an “Infiltration of Western Forces”

February 5, 2020 2:46 pm
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India

India: Severe Attack by Hindu Extremists Devastates Families, Church

February 4, 2020 2:13 pm
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Iraq

Iraq’s Christians flee in the face of lawlessness and sectarianism

February 3, 2020 2:08 pm
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China

How China’s Xi Jinping destroyed religion and made himself God

February 2, 2020 12:49 pm
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Pakistan

Christians still fearful in Pakistan, says Aasia Bibi

February 1, 2020 1:49 pm
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Iraq

Iraq: 4 aid workers with French charity Christians of the Middle East disappear in Baghdad

January 31, 2020 1:19 pm
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Indonesia

Indonesia: Construction of Catholic Church Rejected Due to Local Muslims’ Objection

January 30, 2020 6:14 pm
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Nigeria

Nigeria: Christians Slain, Wounded, Kidnapped in Plateau State

January 29, 2020 3:56 pm
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Algeria

Algeria orders another Christian church to close as crackdown continues

January 28, 2020 2:57 pm
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Cameroon

Cameroon: Bishop says “Boko Haram is like the beast of the Apocalypse…Within my own diocese there have been 13 attacks in the last weeks”

January 27, 2020 5:34 pm
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Religion and Faith

Sudan: Islamist radicals burn down three churches, including an Orthodox church, then burn down the temporary structures each congregation built

January 26, 2020 10:31 pm
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Nigeria

Nigeria: Child terrorist executes Christian student

January 25, 2020 5:12 pm
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Iran

Iran Jails Christian Convert For Insulting Islam

January 24, 2020 3:02 pm
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Religion and Faith

Leave Islam, Lose Family: A Common Choice in Western Uganda

January 23, 2020 5:02 pm
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