Category: Persecution
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Armed Attack on Church in Burkina Faso, Africa; Many Casualties, Late February 2024
The Turkish internet news site Yeni Çağ [New Age] reported on February 25, 2024, that unknown persons carried out an armed attack during the Sunday service at the Dori Catholic Church in the village of Essakane. The statement, made from the scene of the crime, claimed that in the attack 15 persons perished and 2…
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Israel-Hamas War: Egyptian Author/Investigative Journalist Calls for Annihilation of Hamas, mid-December 2023
The following is an article written on December 18, 2023, by Inna Levitskaya, a journalist and editor at Channel 9 Israel, a Russian-language TV channel located in Israel. Levitskaya’s article was the product of portions of an interview conducted with Dalia Ziada by the Telegram channel Humans for Israel and excerpts from Ziada’s Wikipedia page.…
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Turkey: The Abandoned Iraqi and Syrian Christian Asylum Seekers, Late April 2023
Turkish journalist, Uzay Bulut, who writes for the Gatestone Institute, International Policy Council, recently submitted the following report which details the difficulties Iraqi and Syrian Christian asylum seekers are experiencing, including persecution for their faith, while living as refugees in Turkey. The author also addresses the dangers facing Christians who have not left Iraq or…
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Christians Experiencing Discrimination in Iraq; In ISIS-Controlled Northwestern Syria Suffering Persecution, early-December 2022
Turkish internet Christian news site, Sat7, on December 9, 2022, disseminated for its Turkish readership two articles that had originally been published in English. The article concerning Iraqi Christians was based on a FIDES wire that was picked up by several internet sites. One can be found at: https://www.worthynews.com/80474-iraq-christian-families-are-leaving-in-droves . The article on the persecution…
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Church In Southeastern Türkiye Targeted Again, Early September 2022
The Turkish news website, Sat 7 Türk Haber, on September 8, 2022, posted an item in which an up close and personal account was given of the planned murder of three men, who represent the Association of Salvation (Kurtuluş) Churches [1] in the southeastern province of Malatya in Türkiye. The murder there in 2007 of…
The Dragon is Slain 