15/5/2012 Damascus: Christians living in conflict-torn Syria are afraid their community would fall victim of religious extremism if President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapses and Islamists come to power. "I am afraid that we will suffer bad times," a member of Damascus's Christian community, who identified himself as Jorge, told Russia's RIA Novosti news agency. A full-fledged ...
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John Pontifex and John Newton Aid to the Church in Need 15/5/2012 Revelations about the scale of hate crimes against Christian women in Pakistan and Egypt are to be the subject of a meeting in parliament today. At the briefing in the House of Commons, MPs and peers will hear how Christian women in countries marked by religious persecution ...
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By YASMINE SALEH REUTERS CAIRO 15/5/2012 Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes his place in next week’s presidential election. Long-suppressed Islamists already dominate parliament. Islamist contenders for the presidency say Christians, who form about a tenth of Egypt’s 82 million mostly Muslim people, will not ...
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BY BALFORD HENRY Sunday Observer senior reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com 15/5/2012 Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Marley-movie-doesn-t-resolve-religion-dilemma_11412512#ixzz1uxJYlbxM THE new docufilm Marley has brought home an image of the late reggae great, Bob Marley, to a young generation who were probably finding it hard to understand what was so special about him and his music. It presents Marley's life in the context of a society ...
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Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 10, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine was discharged from "Oberih" hospital, where he was undergoing treatment and rehabilitation measures. The condition of His Beatitude Volodymyr is stable and allows him to return to work, to participate in church activities, meetings and social life. Metropolitan Volodymyr was put to hospital on ...
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