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Attacks on Christians increase in Israel
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The Holy Land’s Christians have suffered a “disturbing rise” in attacks, including spitting, physical harassment, damage to property and cemeteries, and the disruption of services. ...
Holy Land: Christian message more important than ever
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As war rages on in the Gaza Strip, Christians in the West Bank and Jerusalem find themselves in an increasingly desperate situation. Reinhard Backes, the ...
Egypt: “We’ve seen real progress”
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His Beatitude Ibrahim Sidrak, the Coptic Catholic Patriarch of Alexandria, heads the small Coptic Catholic Church, which has about 300,000 members. In an interview with ...
Plans to build more churches in Egypt as religious freedom returns
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A decrease in the influence of Islamist extremism in Egypt has made it possible for Christians to rebuild damaged churches and even consider building new ...
Iraq: “Christians are like olive trees. You can burn them, but they will still bear fruit”
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Many feared that the invasion of the Nineveh Plains would drive Christians from Iraq for good, but ten years after militants of the Islamic state ...
A Car for Pastoral Work in Iraq
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Today, Christians are only a small minority in Iraq. Until 2002, there were more than 1.2 million of them, but war, persecution, and poverty have led ...
Archbishop in Lebanon: ‘We find ourselves in a state of war!’
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The Maronite Archbishop of Tyre, Monsignor Charbel Abdallah, whose archdiocese is one of the oldest in the world, told ACN that despite “finding ourselves in ...
Iraq: 10 years after ISIS invasion, Christians still need help
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Archbishop Warda said that many Christians have either left or are planning to leave the country because of the ongoing economic hardship, and that young ...
Syria: Christianity returns to the ruins of Darayya
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During the war, the churches in the area were subject to vandalism and their icons were stolen. The destruction of Darayya came at a huge ...
Solar panels for Church in Lebanon and Syria
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Naturally, this affects the Church. Parishes and communities are unable to provide services to the faithful; heating is limited;; and the Church’s social projects, including ...