Anti-Christian violence in Nigeria could become another Rwanda, says bishop
June 29, 2018
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Addressing the international community, Bishop Avenya said: ‘Don’t wait for the genocide to happen before intervening’
Rome’s Colosseum to be lit up in red for persecuted Christians
February 9, 2018
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The Colosseum will be illuminated at the same time as prominent churches in Syria and Iraq
Houses of Parliament to be lit up in red for persecuted Christians
November 16, 2017
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The Parliament building will be lit up along with at least 10 cathedrals for #RedWednesday
Catholic group sends 15 Virgin Mary statues to Iraq to replace ones destroyed by ISIS
July 21, 2017
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A French Catholic group has sent the new statues from Lourdes to Erbil, where they will be carried through the streets in procession
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June 5, 2017
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Widow of Palm Sunday martyr says she forgives ISIS attacker
April 21, 2017
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In an interview on Egyptian television, she said: ‘I’m not angry at the one who did this, I am telling him, may God forgive you’
Christians in northern Iraq ‘on verge of extinction’, says aid worker
March 24, 2017
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Their future depends on help from the West, according to a senior Chaldean Catholic official
Catholics in Egypt are sheltering Orthodox families fleeing ISIS
March 6, 2017
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A Catholic spokesman says ISIS is now ‘strongly entrenched’ in the North Sinai region
Egyptian Christian shot dead by militants in front of his wife and child
February 24, 2017
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The murder – the sixth in less than a month – comes after ISIS promised to step up its attacks
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February 14, 2017
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Iraqi bishop: a safe corridor for Christians would create a Gaza-style ghetto
January 19, 2017
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Such a strategy would make Christians a ‘target’ for their enemies, Church leaders have said
Catholic church bombed as fighting intensifies in Burma
December 7, 2016
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Church bombed as tensions between state military and ethnic groups in northern Burma escalate