Category: Middle East
Christians fear being dragged into Syrian violence
Syrian girs protest in Idlib. Source: AFP RICHARD BEESTON, IN DAMASCUS The Australian 4/2/2012 WHEN Father Basilious Nasser got an urgent call to say that ... Read More
Macedonians subject to religious tensions
http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/images/2012/02/03/MISKOphoto.jpg By Misko Taleski for Southeast European Times in Struga 03/02/12 The government and religious communities are attempting to calm the situation following the burning ... Read More
Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement
By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch, USA TODAY 1/2/2012 CAIRO – From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key ... Read More
NEW BIBLE VERSIONS REMOVE ‘FATHER’ AND ‘SON OF GOD’ BECAUSE IT OFFENDS MUSLIMS
30/1/2012 Jihad Watch American Bible translators bowdlerize scriptures to avoid offending Muslims: no “Father” and “Son” If this is true, for the parties they are ... Read More
Why Christians in Egypt Are Holding Their Breath, Part 2
By Kurt J. Werthmuller 26/1/2012 The long-term future of Christians in Egypt is fraught with peril. Paradoxically, the last century has been a period in ... Read More
Growing Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Newton and Eva-Marie Kolman 20/1/2012 Christians and moderate Muslims are trying to stem the tide of Islamo-fascism in the heart of the former Yugoslavia. ... Read More
Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church
By Mary Abdelmassih AINA NEWS 20/1/2012 (AINA) — A Muslim mob attacked Copts today in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly, Nag Hammadi, Qena province, ... Read More
Security tight as Egypt Copts celebrate Christmas
Pope Shenuda III (C), head of the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church, meets with Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb (2nd left), Egyptian Religious Endowments Minister ... Read More