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Egypt Deploys Scholars to Teach Moderate Islam, but Skepticism Abounds

By Reuters – (abridged) Additional reporting by Ahmed Hassan; Editing by Michael Georgy, Simon Robinson and Richard Woods. In a televised speech in January at an Al-Azhar conference centre [...]

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Coptic Family Expelled from Home Village After Attack by Islamic Mobs

By Watani Copts must leave On the evening of Sunday 24 May, a number of radical Muslim youth waged an attack against the homes of Copts in the village of Kafr Darwish, hurling at them stones and [...]

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Obama’s Strategy for the Middle East Has Backfired

By Marco Rubio – The Washington Post The Middle East is more dangerous and unstable than when Obama came into office — a time when Iraq and Syria were more stable, the Iranian nuclear [...]

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How the Islamic State Could Win

By John McLaughlin – The Washington Post But let’s test that proposition and think for a minute about what it would take for the group to win. What would success look like for the Islamic [...]

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Contain and Amplify

By The New York Times The Arab world is a pluralistic region that lacks pluralism— the ability to manage and embrace differences peacefully. As such, the Middle East’s pluralistic character — [...]

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UN Official Reports on Islamic State’s “War on Women”

By Aleteia ISIS is organized and coordinated and “operates on a widespread and systematic basis to commit a staggering array of atrocities,” said Zainab Bangura, UN Special [...]

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Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws Once Again Basis of Mob Violence Against Christians

By Aleteia The incident began in ways similar to past occasions involving the laws, which forbid descecration of the Quran. A man in Lahore claimed to have seen a young Christian, Humayun Faisal [...]

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Two Pastors in Sudan Face Death over Christian Faith

By FOX News Yat Michael Ruot and Peter Yein Reith, both Presbyterian pastors from the breakaway Christian nation of South Sudan, are being held by Sudan’s National Intelligence and Security [...]

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Egypt Has Destroyed Over 500 Tunnels at Gaza Border Since October

By World Tribune Military spokesman Gen. Mohammed Samir told state-owned al-Ahram newspaper on May 25 that 521 tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt have been discovered since large-scale operations [...]

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Coptic Solidarity Conference – 100 Years Later: Middle Eastern Christians Face Another Genocide

By Coptic Solidarity WASHINGTON, May 26, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As the world commemorates the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, Coptic Solidarity will host our 6th Annual [...]