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PM defers to UK’s Muslims, denies asylum to targeted Pakistani Christian woman

By World Tribune – British Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected a Pakistani Christian woman’s asylum request after being advised that the move would “stoke tensions” among the UK’s three [...]

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Rights group: Christian religious freedoms decline in Egypt

By AP –   An Egyptian rights group says the country’s Christians are suffering increased discrimination despite official efforts to address their grievances. The finding comes in a report [...]

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Egypt looks to remove religion from ID cards — but is it too little, too late?

Shahira Amin – Al-Monitor – Legislator Ismail Nasreddin has announced plans to submit a bill to Egypt’s parliament that would remove religious affiliation from national ID [...]

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Commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the International Religious Freedom Act

By Religious Freedom Institute – Watch the speeches and panel discussions from the conference>> Twenty years ago, the 105th Congress passed the landscape-changing International [...]

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‘Pure Genocide’: Over 6,000 Nigerian Christians Slaughtered, Mostly Women and Children

By Stoyan Zaimov – The Christian Post –  Church leaders in Nigeria have said that Christians are experiencing “pure genocide” as 6,000 people, mostly women and children, [...]

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Christian Mother Acquitted of Blasphemy in Pakistan Released from Prison

By Morning Star News – Islamic extremists warn of retaliation if she is allowed to leave country – A Christian mother who spent nine years on death row before being acquitted in [...]

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Local church contradicts state narrative about Minya attack

By Karoline Kamel – MadaMasr – Church reports contradict claims that those killed in Minya put themselves at risk, reiterate calls for increased security on the road into St. Samuel. In the wake [...]

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Islamist Terrorist Ambush, Kill Seven Christians near Monastery in Minya, Egypt

By Morning Star News – Funerals were held over the weekend in Egypt for seven Christians ambushed and killed on Friday (Nov. 2) in Islamist attacks. Hundreds of people attended the funeral [...]

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‘We will kill the men and children and leave you to live the rest of your lives in misery’

By Nourhan Mostafa – Mada Masr – Translated by Ian Louie Safwat Shehata, a man from Minya who lost six relatives in Friday’s attack, recounts the ordeal Safwat Shehata, a man in his [...]

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Anger erupts in Egypt after massacre of Christian pilgrims

By Religion News Service –  The Coptic bishop of this city south of Cairo, Anba Makarios, spent the weekend trying to comfort mourners after two buses carrying Coptic Christians were [...]