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Teacher in Egypt Sentenced for ‘Defaming’ Islam
A judge in Upper Egypt found a Christian teacher guilty of defaming Islam today and levied a massive fine against her after prohibiting her lawyers from presenting a single witness during the trial.
Dimyana Obeid Abd Al-Nour...
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Vietnam thwarts efforts to right religious rights abuses
In February, sustained night-time attacks by “villagers with the hand of the government behind them” in Vietnam’s Central Highlands destroyed the homes and thousands of coffee plants of ethnic Sedang Christians. Eventually four...
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Christians deported from Morocco fight to be reunited with orphans
Expatriate Christians who ran an orphanage in Morocco until they were deported on charges of proselytism said yesterday they will take their fight to be reunited with the children to the Supreme Court if necessary.
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Suspected Boko Haram gunmen kill Christian leader in Borno State, Nigeria
Gunmen believed to be members of the Islamic extremist Boko Haram group yesterday killed the Rev. Faye Pama Musa, secretary of the Borno state chapter of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). He was 47.
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Explosion kills, injures worshipers at inaugural mass in Tanzania
Fear and grief rocked a predominantly Christian area of northern Tanzania yesterday after an unidentified man reportedly hurled an explosive device at the inaugural Mass of a new church building, killing two worshipers
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Attack in Nigeria that Killed 18 Christians Caps Two Years of Islamic Aggression
Farmer Hosea Mashaf rushed from a neighboring village to aid Christians under attack. (Morning Star News photo) MILE BAKWAI, Nigeria (Morning Star News) – Hosea Mashaf was resting in his village of Chirang Mangor, Nigeria, when...
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Christian Widow in Somalia Killed Four Months after Husband Slain
Clothing on Fartun Omar when her body was found outside Buulodbarde, Somalia. NAIROBI, Kenya (Morning Star News) – Islamist militants in Somalia have killed the widow of a Christian who was slain for his faith in December, leav...
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Christian killed in attack on Coptic mourners in Egypt
Coptic Christians attending a funeral service here today for four Copts killed two days earlier in an anti-Christian rampage were in turn attacked themselves by at least 200 Muslim rioters. The incident, which started with a fe...
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Pakistani court overturns Younis Masih’s ‘blasphemy’ conviction, Death Sentence
A court in Pakistan today overturned the death sentence of a Christian convicted under Pakistan’s “blasphemy” laws and ordered him released, according to an advocacy group.
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Rogue soldier in Nigeria allegedly kills infant, 5-year-old
The Nigerian mother of three, wounded from the same gunshot that killed her 9-month-old baby, asked her bleeding 7-year-old daughter to pray for their survival.
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