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Flag of Azerbaijan on military uniform. Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock CNA Staff, An ecumenical group of advocates for persecuted Christians is calling on the U.S. to condemn Turkey and Azerbaijan, amid a conflict over a disputed area in the Caucasus Mountains that has led to the deaths of over a thousand Armenians in recent months.…
Read moreInés San Martín | Crux NowIraqi Christians in Baghdad leave Christmas Mass at St. George Chaldean Church Dec. 25, 2019. (Khalid al Mousily/Reuters/CNS via Crux)Ever since the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS), there’s been rising alarm regarding the…
Read moreSince Mosul’s liberation, Sawaed al-Museliya (Muslim) volunteer are helping people in need and wiping away the traces of the Islamic State. At present, they are clearing the Syriac Catholic Church of St Thomas. They urge families that fled to “Come back, Mosul is not complete without you.”…
Read moreThe controversy that broke out between France and part of the Muslim world has not had any serious local impact. A collaborative esprit de corps prevails in the city, with Muslims trying to get Christians to come back. For Fr Paul, people are helping each through dialogue and exchange. In Karamles, a cultural centre helps…
Read moreIran (International Christian Concern) – Saheb Zaman Fadaie, an Iranian Christian convert who served as a deacon in his church in Rasht, has returned to Evin Prison following a 5-day furlough. This was his first furlough since starting his sentence two years ago, although he did appeal for furlough at the start of the pandemic and…
Read moreIndia (International Christian Concern) – Christian leaders and activists called on the state government of Chhattisgarh to investigate a series of attacks on Christian villagers that took place in September. These leaders further called on state authorities to protect the Christian minority, many of whom remain displaced by the attacks.…
Read moreSomalia (International Christian Concern) – Morningstar News released a report about a 7 year old Christian boy being beaten in Somalia. In the report, the website says that they received a message from a Christian man in Somalia who has been persecuted for many years. The man, unnamed for security reasons, says that he had just…
Read moreIn a video posted to Youtube in 2019, a group of men and women in matching white t-shirts dine alongside two neatly-dressed French nationals and a man in military fatigues. The Frenchmen then hand the man in camouflage a golden award, congratulating him on the liberation of the small Christian village of Maharda in regime-…
Read moreRudaw English & AFPERBIL, Kurdistan Region — Worshippers, wearing protective masks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, attended a mass on All Saints’ Day at the Chaldean Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Baghdad on Sunday.…
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