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Christian persecution
Iraqi Christianity May Soon Be Persecuted to Its End, Archbishop Warns
The Tablet Staff Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda of Iraq is warning that Christianity in his country is close to disappearing. “One of the oldest Churches, if not the oldest Church in the world, is perilously close to extinction. Those of us who remain must be ready to face martyrdom,” Archbishop Warda, a Chaldean Catholic […]
Easter Attacks on Churches in Sri Lanka Are Tragic, but Hardly Surprising
There’s now an ugly and utterly predictable dynamic on Easter Sunday: Somewhere in the world, full churches will be attacked and some number of Christians will die.
Christian Returned From Iraq Only to Be Kidnapped by ISIS
An ISIS-affiliated group kidnapped a Coptic Christian man traveling in a communal taxi from Ismailia Governorate to Al-Arish, the capital of North Sinai Governorate, northeast of Cairo, his family told The Tablet.
New ISIS Attack on Egyptian Copts Mirrors Previous Strike
On the same road and with the same style of last year’s attack, members of ISIS killed seven Coptic Christians Nov. 2 on a bus carrying worshippers returning from a visit to St. Samuel the Confessor Monastery in El Minya Governorate.
Egyptian Copts Called ‘Infidels,’ Harassed For Attending Church
Last week, two churches in Egypt were subject to demonstrations by Muslim hardliners who prevented Coptic Christians from worshiping, claiming the churches are unlicensed. In a third incident, a police officer broke onto a church and screamed at the worshippers “Infidels … you are all infidels.”
Life in Egypt for a Christian Woman: ‘Easy Prey’
To be a woman in a country where most of her people see women as a disgrace, and at best look at her from a sexual point of view, it is a heavy burden, but even worse when you are a Christian woman. It is hell!
Priests Charge Catholics Are Being Persecuted in Vietnam
Police have looked the other way as groups of youths have terrorized a Catholic community in northeast Vietnam.
Despite Attacks in Egypt, Papal Visit Is Still On
Despite recent and repeated terrorist attacks against Egypt’s minority Christian communities, Pope Francis will not cancel his visit to Egypt.
B’klyn Maronite Bishop Asks Focus on Christian Persecution
Maronite Bishop Gregory J. Mansour called on the bishops of the United States to bring wider attention to the persecution of Christians in the Middle East to their parishes and political leaders.