Turkey Outlaws Assyrian Family Names
By Syriac Press (AINA) – The 1934 Surname Law, enacted during the early years of the Republic, continues to stand as a barrier preventing non-Muslim and diverse communities in Turkey, [...]
Al-Azhar Expands Its Reach into Egypt’s Public Education System
By Coptic Solidarity – The Egyptian government has taken another significant step toward integrating Al-Azhar into the country’s general education system, signing a broad cooperation [...]
Christian persecution concerns rise in Egypt as State Department presses religious freedom
By FoxNews – US sends $1.3B annually to Egypt, where Christians make up an estimated 10% of the 120 million population A series of violent attacks on Egyptian Christians, including the [...]
St. Catherine’s: Court of Cassation Prosecution Recommends leaving most of the appellate judgment intact; reexamining a few specific issues
The platform Matsada’sh (“Don’t Believe It”) has obtained copies of the two memoranda submitted by the Public Prosecution before the Court of [...]
Christians In The Middle East: A Persecuted And Forgotten People
By Matija Šerić – Eurasia Review (via AINA) – At the beginning of this year, the Christian international network Open Doors presented data on the oppression, discrimination and persecution [...]
Nearly 10,000 Yazidis Killed, Kidnapped By Islamic State in 2014, Study Finds
By Reuters (via AINA) – At least 9,900 of Iraq’s Yazidis were killed or kidnapped in just days in an Islamic State attack in 2014, according to the first study to document the number [...]
Middle East Christianity Won’t Disappear Without a Fight
By Kathryn Jean Lopez – NRO (via AINA) – There’s a “memoricide” happening in the Middle East, as the presence of Christians there diminishes to the point of [...]
Jordanian Figure Nahed Hattar Assassinated outside Jordanian Court
By Jadaliyya – On the morning of Sunday 25 September 2016, a gunman shot Jordanian writer and opposition figure Nahed Hattar outside of the Jordanian Palace of Justice. At the [...]
The First Country to Officially Defend Christians Persecuted by ISIS
By World Watch Monitor – This week, Hungary, which has during the past year come under pressure for its handling of Europe’s mass migration crisis, has become the first government to open [...]
Do Christians in Egypt Need a Law to Build Churches?
By Samia Sidhom – Watani – Given the discrimination, oppression and severe humiliation Christians in Egypt have to sustain if they so much as think of building or renovating a church, it is [...]
