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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 Uzay Bulut – Christian Post (via AINA) ـ Yazidis, a historically persecuted non-Muslim people in the Middle East, are yet again fleeing for their lives — this time from [...]

By LibertyNews (via AINA) – The government of Turkey is now confiscating Christian property and prohibiting Christians worshipping in their churches, which have also been confiscated. This [...]

By Hany Ghoraba – Special to IPT News – Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi marched straight into a battle with Egypt’s highest Sunni authority, Al-Azhar’s mosque and [...]

By The Alabama Baptist – Turkey — it sometimes slips out of view since it doesn’t make the Secretary of State’s “Countries of Particular Concern” list for [...]

By Patrick Kingsley, The New York Times – For Magdy Shalash, an Egyptian exile living here in Istanbul, Turkey, there is a certain irony to a recent diplomatic spat that has divided the [...]

By John Burger – Aleteia –  1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing dispute Turkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards [...]

By Burak Bekdil – The Gatestone Institute –  The good news about Turkish justice is that despite 15 years of not-so-creeping Islamization, court verdicts do not yet sentence [...]

By Uzay Bulut – AINA – The current Greek population in Turkey is estimated at fewer than 2,000. But this population decline was not due to natural causes; the Greek community has [...]

By Steven A. Cook – Foreign Affairs – In a half-decade of extraordinary moments in the Middle East, /images of citizens swarming tanks and other military vehicles have been among the [...]