Christians News
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The world's Christians need to stand up and be heard this year at Christmas, because if we don't, we may not have a chance next time a Christian holiday comes around. If you think I'm overreacting, just take a gander at the headlines.
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By AFP
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Hundreds of people attended a funeral ceremony Wednesday for an Iraqi family that drowned in the Aegean Sea last month while attempting to reach the shores of Europe.
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By AFP
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At least 15 Syrian Christians who had been held by the Islamic State group in the central village of Al-Qaryatain were released Friday, monitoring groups said.
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By AFP
Brussels -
The Belgian government said Wednesday that it has in recent months helped 244 Christians to escape from Syria and move to Belgium with refugee status, most of them families with children.
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Jerusalem -
If one building in the world epitomizes the religious strife we are seeing in the world today, it would be a building located in Jerusalem, Israel. The building is shared by two major religions, each claiming its importance to their own faith.
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By AFP
Birut -
Kurdish forces have driven the Islamic State group from more than a dozen Assyrian Christian villages that the jihadists had captured in northeastern Syria, a monitor said Wednesday.
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By AFP
Addis Ababa -
Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched through the capital Wednesday in a government-organised rally condemning the murder of a group of Ethiopian Christians by Islamic State militants in Libya.
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By AFP
Tripoli -
The United States condemned the "brutal mass murder" of 30 Ethiopian Christians in Libya following a video released by Islamic State militants purportedly showing their execution.
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Over 70 million Christians living in Nigeria are in fear for their lives as the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram continues its murderous rampaging across northeastern Nigeria, reaching into as far as Chad, Cameroon and Niger.
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By AFP
Tripoli -
The Islamic State group on Sunday released a video purportedly showing the execution of some 30 Ethiopian Christians captured in Libya.
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There will come a time in the not to distant future when the old adage, "Love thy neighbor as thyself" will become more important than it has ever been. This is because the world's religious profile is rapidly changing, maybe for the better.
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By AFP
Washington -
The Vatican's ambassador to the United Nations has endorsed military action against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria -- an unusual move because the Vatican traditionally has opposed force in the region.
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By AFP
Lahore -
Eight people were killed and more than 50 injured when two Taliban suicide bombers attacked churches in Pakistan Sunday, sparking mob violence in which two other suspected militants died.
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By AFP
Birut -
The US-led coalition has carried out air strikes against the Islamic State group in northeastern Syria, where the jihadists have launched a new offensive and kidnapped 220 Assyrian Christians.
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By AFP
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Islamic State group jihadists have abducted 220 Assyrian Christians in northeastern Syria in recent days, a monitoring group said Thursday, as international concern grows for the minority group.
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By AFP
Birut -
The kidnapping of nearly 100 Assyrian Christians by Islamic State militants in Syria has prompted terrified families to flee their homes, activists said, as Washington vowed to defeat the group.
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By AFP
Birut -
The United States has condemned the abduction by the Islamic State group of dozens of Assyrian Christians in Syria and demanded their immediate release.It was the first mass kidnapping of Christians in the war-torn country.
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The White House Summit on Combating Violent Extremism ended last week with much politically correct discussion, but no definite plan on how to combat violent extremism, and certainly no willingness to define it.
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In the most recent propaganda video released by the militant group ISIS, the terroristic group vows to conquer Rome. Some say it is a blatant attack on Christians.
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By AFP
Cairo -
Egypt carried out air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Libya on Monday after the jihadists posted a video showing the decapitation of 21 Coptic Christians, the military said.
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By AFP
Cairo -
The Islamic State group in Libya released a video on Sunday purportedly showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians, prompting Egypt's president to threaten a "suitable" punishment for the killings.
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By AFP
Benghazi -
An Egyptian Coptic Christian teenager abducted in Libya by armed men who killed her parents has been found dead, a hospital source said Friday.
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Miami -
In 2013, Florida passed a law which gave equal representation to Christians, Jews, secular humanists, atheists, and Pastafarians, thus allowing them to construct testaments to their own faith (or lack thereof) on the grounds of the state Capitol.
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Naples -
A Florida couple says they are helping to spread the gospel of Christ by "swinging", calling it all a part of "God's plan."
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On Sundays, our parish sings the Beatitudes, from the Sermon on the Mount. But this time, the words reached through the millennia to highlight the headlines of today: wars, beheadings, and the jihadist genocides of Christians and people of other faiths.
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An interview with Middle East expert Rick Francona on opening borders to Christian refugees, World War III, ISIS, and reducing the conflict between Israel and Gaza.
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On Saturday, the Vicar of the only Anglican church in Iraq warned that the end was "very near" for Christians in that country. Mosul is Iraq's second largest city, and six weeks ago, 35,000 Christians lived there. Today, there are no Christians in Mosul.
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By AFP
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The United Nations Security Council has denounced militant persecution of Christians and other minorities in Iraq, warning such actions can be considered crimes against humanity.
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Wenzhou -
After initial optimism at new Chinese President Xi Jinping's seeming tolerance of religion and a growing number of Christians in China, Chinese Christians are concerned over the removal of crosses and destruction of a church in the south.
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2013 was a dangerous year for Christians. Many were tortured and killed, mostly by Islamists throughout the Middle East. Jesus said "love your enemy," so Christians don't usually seek revenge, making them easy targets.
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...and some more loving words. WKRG
An angry mob drives a Christian community from their homes in Lahore, Pakistan Christians in Pakistan
Christian swingers, Dean and Cristy Parave Screen Capture
Christian swingers, Dean and Cristy Parave Screen Capture
Dozens of Jewish protesters trying to prevent a Christian ritual from taking place at a holy site in Israel were forcibly removed. Wochit News
Muslim mobs burned houses, businesses, and churches Christians in Pakistan
Examples of "loving" Christians reacting to an atheist organization's request to put up a placard next to a "God is love" sign. WKRG
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A riot of colour – a previous Pride march in London Pride official photographer
Christians helping Ella McGrory
Dozens of Jewish protesters trying to prevent a Christian ritual from taking place at a holy site in Israel were forcibly removed. Wochit News
A hate billboard set up by Billboard Express at request of anti-MIitary Religious Freedom Foundation Group Billboard Express (used with permission)
Mosul's Christians have been forced out of the homes by ISIS, leaving behind a Christian legacy dating back almost 2,000 years. DW
A look at Grace community church's Good Friday service from the back, as singers celebrate on the stage
The National Christian Center is a non-denominational church building of the Christian Association of Nigeria in Abuja. Chippla Vandu
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