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By Syriac Press (via AINA) – Parishioners from six churches in Suwayda, Syria, have been displaced in recent weeks, underscoring the mounting humanitarian crisis in the governorate, [...]

This session was hosted during Coptic Solidarity’s 13th Annual Conference, “Uprooted & Endangered: Defending the Religious Minorities of the Middle East” in the Cannon [...]

By Chris Mitchell – CBN (via AINA) – Turkish-led jihadist troops advancing on a Syrian Christian town could begin an ethnic cleansing campaign in the next few hours, attorney and [...]

By World Watch Monitor –  As the Syrian civil war enters what might be its last year, Christians are trying to rebuild in the face of an uncertain future. The conflict, which grew out of [...]

By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent –  Turkey is recruiting and retraining Isis fighters to lead its invasion of the Kurdish enclave of Afrin in northern Syria, according to an [...]

By WorldTribune –  U.S. President Donald Trump on Dec. 11 signed legislation to direct U.S. humanitarian assistance to persecuted religious minorities in Iraq and Syria who were targeted [...]

By Patrick Cockburn – The Independent –  The Yazidis, who were recently the target of massacre, rape and sex slavery by Isis, are now facing forcible conversion to Islam under the [...]

By Sirwan Kajjo – Gatestone Institute Despite losing control of Raqqa and other major strongholds in Syria and Iraq, ISIS continues to keep many of the women it kidnapped during its [...]

By Mark Pattison – Catholic News Service –  If Christians in the Middle East are going to be “honest” with their Muslim dialogue partners, said Chaldean Archbishop Bashar [...]

By Charles Lister – Foreign Policy – On the sixth anniversary of the Syrian uprising, moderate rebels have never been weaker — and jihadis have never been stronger. After six years of [...]