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Egyptian Christians face Christmas amid fears for future
Egyptian Christians will mark Christmas amid concerns that their situation in the country is becoming precarious as Islamists become more prominent.
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Southern Sudanese Christians fear forced repatriation
Khartoum gives them until Sunday to apply for citizenship or be deported.
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Explosion at Christian meeting in Kenya kills boy, woman
Al Shabaab Islamic extremists suspected of throwing grenade into open-air evangelistic event. NAIROBI, Kenya, April 3 (CDN) — An 8-year-old boy died today from injuries after suspected Islamic extremists on Saturday (March 31)...
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Drive to release rights attorney in China pushes forward
Gao Zhisheng’s brother visits him in prison. LOS ANGELES, March 30 (CDN) — Confirmation this week of China’s assertion in December that human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng is alive and serving out a prison sentence is key as effo...
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Salafist leaders celebrate death of Coptic pope in Egypt
Open contempt for head of church of more than 40 years bodes ill for Christians.
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Coptic pope laid to rest as transition looms
Religious, political and military leaders gathered to pay tribute Tuesday to the late Coptic patriarch Shenouda III, whose death Saturday plunged Egypt’s minority Coptic community into grief at a critical time for Egypt&#...