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Bomber of Messianic Jewish family in Israel imprisoned
After five years of waiting for justice, a Messianic Jewish pastor in Israel says he is satisfied with the sentence given to an ultra-Orthodox, Jewish nationalist who bombed his home and almost killed his son. U.S.
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Egypt’s Christians, fearing instability, seek security elsewhere
They say cathedral attack, kidnappings indicate government neglectCairo, April 9 (World Watch Monitor) —
By James Martone
In downtown Cairo mid-March, the multicolored pharaoh-motif tablecloths and dishtowels were mis...
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Turkish Church’s Faith Shines after Foiled Assassination Plot
The Izmit Protestant Church and its nondescript building have been threatened before, including an attempted arson. IZMIT, Turkey (Morning Star News) – Pastor Emre Karaali beams as he discusses the number of first-time visitors...
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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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Church walls go up, then torn down by local government
Cheers went up as a backhoe tore down the barely finished walls of the Batak Protestant Church near Jakarta, Indonesia on Thursday. The pile of rubble that remained was only the latest setback to Christians trying to retain a t...
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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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Kano bus bomb prompts religious leaders to joint call for urgent measures
A car bomb attack in a Christian enclave of Kano, the largest city in mainly-Muslim Northern Nigeria, has heightened religious and ethnic tensions throughout the country.
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Pastor in Pakistan released on bail after mistaken blasphemy accusation
In a rare instance in Pakistan, a judge granted bail to a pastor accused of blaspheming Islam because the complainant admitted that he had mistakenly accused him, attorneys said.
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Muslim villagers in Egypt attack church
Fayoum, Egypt. CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – Muslim villagers in Egypt’s Fayoum Province attacked a church this weekend – pelting four Christians with rocks, setting parts of the church building on fire and tearing down a ...
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Antichrist Superstar: Why every era finds a new Archenemy
Every age needs an Antichrist.
Protestant Reformers picked the papacy as their embodiment of evil. American colonists chose King George III and some Cold War Christians suspected the Soviet Union was satanically led.