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“France is outraged by these abuses that it condemns with the utmost firmness,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a joint [...]

According to the report, Egypt’s religious minorities, 10 percent of which are Christian, and 1 percent Shia, as well as small groups of Quranists, Ahmadi Muslims, fewer than 100 Jews, up to [...]

After leaving the post vacant for nine months, President Obama has finally nominated Rabbi David Saperstein to the post of Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. If confirmed, [...]

The following is the complete list of the Christian institutions in Mosul, grouped by denomination. Syriac Catholic Church: 1. Syrian Catholic Diocese – Maidan Neighborhood, Mosul 2. The [...]

Christians fleeing north for their lives were told by the fighters identifying themselves as the army of the Islamic state that they had four choices: Convert to Islam, pay a Jizya tax and live [...]

By mid-July, it was accompanied by another statement, painted in black, “Property of the Islamic State.” And with that, the Christians found their worst fears confirmed. On July 19, ISIS, the [...]

By Coptic Solidarity – This week the State Department issued its annual report International Religious Freedom Report (covering 2013), which details the status of religious freedom in each [...]

The 2012 constitution, in effect until its suspension on July 3, stipulated “freedom of belief is an inviolable right,” but only guaranteed the freedom to perform religious rituals for adherents [...]

In Syria, as in much of the Middle East, the Christian presence is becoming a shadow of its former self. After three years of civil war, hundreds of thousands fled the country desperate to escape [...]

Yacub, 70, was one of the few Christians remaining beyond last Saturday’s noon deadline. He may have even been the last to leave alive. “[A] fighter said, ‘I have orders to kill you [...]