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Hope in Mali rises with international military intervention
French troops have launched a military operation in Mali, aiming at stopping the advance of Islamists from their bases in the north to the South.
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Colombia: Murdered evangelist’s widow also killed after threats
Four months after guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) sent a murdered evangelist's wife their first demand to abandon her home in northeast Colombia's volatile Arauca department, the militants made good on their t...
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Africa rises on World Watch List of worst persecutors
Africa, where Christianity spread fastest during the past century, now is the region where oppression of Christians is spreading fastest, a new report says. The two-year-old Arab Spring has toppled autocrats across Northern A...
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China’s Christians seize Internet opportunities
Chinese Christians are sharing their faith on Weibo, China’s giant, state-regulated, social network – and some are beginning to challenge the censor by speaking out against religious persecution.
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Syrian Christians prepare for somber Christmas
"Silent night, Holy night, all is calm, all is bright..."
Many Christians all over the world will sing this Christmas carol in the next few days. Millions look forward to Christmas. What about the Syrian Christians in the m...
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Likely to lose constitution vote, Egyptian Christians gird for long struggle
Politically connected Christians in Egypt give credit to the Muslim Brotherhood for one thing: they can win elections.
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China removes Shanghai Catholic bishop from state-run church post
In a move characterised in Western media as a fresh challenge to Vatican authority, China's state-run Catholic Church has revoked the title of the auxiliary Bishop of Shanghai.
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Prosecutor yanked from Turkish Christian murder trials
A High Council prosecutor probing links between the Malatya murders of three Christians in eastern Turkey and the earlier assassination of a Christian newspaper editor was abruptly transferred from his position last week and re...
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Uzbek pastor released from Kazakhstan prison
Uzbek pastor Makset Djabbarbergenov has been released from prison in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
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10 killed, four churches burned in Nigeria
Ten people were killed and four churches burned in two separate Dec. 1 attacks in northeast Nigeria by gunmen suspected to be members of the Boko Haram Islamist group.