Returning Mosul Christians face persecution
December 11, 2008
MOSUL, Iraq — In 99-percent Muslim Turkey, most Iraqi refugees are not Muslims. A middle-aged Iraqi refugee in Istanbul who fled Mosul in June said
Muslims attack Coptic church, oppose expansion
December 11, 2008
AIN SHAMS, Egypt — Thousands of Muslim protestors Nov. 23 attacked a Coptic church in a suburb of Cairo, Egypt, burning part of it, a
Anti-Christian violence spreads to more areas of India
December 4, 2008
Baptist leaders in the southern state of Karnataka in India have informed the Baptist World Alliance (BWA) that persecution is on the rise in that
Egyptian officials arrest 50 Christians, shops looted
December 4, 2008
TAYYIBA, Egypt — Authorities in an Egyptian village arrested 50 Coptic Christians — whose shops were then looted — to pacify Muslims following violence that
Report suggests CIA cover-up in missionary death
December 4, 2008
WASHINGTON — A top-ranking Republican said he would call for a new federal inquiry into an alleged CIA cover-up in the 2001 military attack on
Arizona allows ‘Choose Life’ license plates
December 4, 2008
PHOENIX — A federal court has ruled the Arizona License Plate Commission must approve a pro-life group’s “Choose Life” specialty license plate. The Arizona Life
State gets mixed results in wet/dry votes; nation decides other issues
November 13, 2008
Baptists in three Alabama counties won their fight against the expansion of alcohol sales Nov. 4, while the city of Arab and Cleburne County both
Syrian Catholic targeted for faith, killed in Iraq
October 2, 2008
MOSUL, Iraq — An unknown group of armed men killed a Syrian Catholic in violence-plagued Mosul, Iraq, two weeks after his father was kidnapped and
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