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February 27, 2017

Giant cross installed outside Mosul to mark progress against ISIS

As a village outside the city of Mosul is being rebuilt after its liberation from the Islamic State terror group, a giant cross has been erected on one of its hills to celebrate the victory of faith over "darkness."

February 27, 2017

More than 100 Christian families escape Sinai after chilling ISIS threat

Egyptian Christians are fleeing the restive Sinai Peninsula, some with just the clothes on their backs, amid a series of killings and an explicit call by Islamic State for its followers to target the minority group.

January 26, 2017

Christians Under Siege: There's no time to waste, we must act now

Is it possible that this decade will see the virtual end of Christianity in the very region it was born?

January 15, 2017

Egypt drops case against mob that attacked Christian woman

Egyptian prosecutors on Saturday threw out a case brought by an elderly Christian woman against several members of a Muslim mob who stripped off her clothes and paraded her naked on the streets.

January 12, 2017

No home for the holidays: Assyrian Christians unable to return to villages destroyed by ISIS

As the campaign to liberate Mosul from ISIS rages on, Christian residents of surrounding villages already freed from the terror army's grip have returned to find their homes booby-trapped, in ruins and uninhabitable.

January 12, 2017

Hopes hinge on perilous and long-awaited Mosul assault

The early stages of the campaign to liberate Mosul are revealing exactly why it took so long to seize the city from the bloody grip of ISIS.

January 12, 2017

Mexico's Christians face beatings, forced conversions at hands of hybrid faiths

As incidents of persecution against Christians rise in places like the Middle East, the y are also occurring in the most unlikely corners of the globe.

January 12, 2017

'I did not check their religion': Priest earns praise, threats for saving thousands from violence in Africa

A Catholic priest from the Central African Republic is in the running to receive a $1 million peace prize for helping thousands of Christians and Muslims alike, escape brutal sectarian violence in the region.

January 12, 2017

Christian persecution by Hindus rises in India, say humanitarian groups

As Christianity has seemingly been under attack in places like Iraq, Syria, and Africa for over a decade from extremist groups like ISIS and Al Shabaab, the first six weeks of 2016 have seen a fresh outbreak of anti-Christian violence in India with nearly 30 incidents of religiously motivated violence against Christians reported in just over two months.

January 12, 2017

Yazidi refugees flee ISIS, but find door to US asylum closed

One year later, and the Yazidi population of northern Iraq is still embroiled in a crisis -- facing daily persecution and even execution by the Islamic State. With tens of thousands of this Christian population uprooted from their homes and living as refugees in their own country many have nowhere to go for safe haven.