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Who’s trying to stir up trouble between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims?
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Provocateurs are being blamed for a deadly mob attack on a suburban Cairo church and ancient monastery — and riots that have followed. A number of Egyptians on March 10 pointed the finger at Egypt’s army for the death of 13 people killed as Coptic Christians protested the church burning. However, others blamed radicals. The…
Giving away free Bibles riskier than 17 Ethiopian college students expected
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Thinking they couldn’t get into much trouble just giving away Bibles, 17 Christian college students from Meda Welabu University in Ethiopia thought they would go into the rural countryside and share the Gospel. The native Ethiopian students didn’t know what kind of reception they would get. They hoped for the best. According to the…
Egyptian Christians pray for new government tolerance
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More than 5,000 Egyptian Christians protested outside the state-run television network headquarters on Monday – demanding army protection after a Coptic church was set on fire in a Cairo suburb. Their protests came as Christian leaders asked fellow believers worldwide to pray that the new Egyptian government would ease restrictions against Egypt’s churches. …
Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member assassinated, had defended woman accused of testifying her belief in Jesus
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan’s only Christian cabinet member has been killed in a hail of bullets for his defense of a Christian mother of five condemned to death for witnessing about Jesus. Shahbaz Bhatti, the country’s minority affairs minister, was ambushed March 2 by gunmen outside his home. On Jan. 4, Salman Taseer, 66, the provincial governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, was murdered…
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