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Surprise .. Plans to Introduce Coptic History at Schools "But 700 years is not a long enough Era", says Curriculum Director!!!

Dr. Yusri Afify, Director of the Curriculum Development Center at the Ministry of Education, said that the Ministry has agreed in principle to increase the amount of Coptic history in books, as part of its curriculum development plan over the next two years.  more....

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Muslim Burns a Young Copt Alive and Murders His Father Because of a Rumor!!!

A Muslim man set fire to a Coptic young man, murdered his father and wounded his younger brother, after it was rumored that the young Copt allegedly had a relationship with the Muslim man's sister!!  more....

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Mass. Catholics occupying imperiled churches 24-7

EVERETT, Mass. (AP) — The thermometer inside St. Therese Church reads a toe-numbing 36 degrees. A pail of water used for hand-washing has frozen under a sink that, like the heating system, hasn't worked in months. In the sanctuary, four women in coats, hats and gloves huddle as they pray the rosary, their breath visible in the cold.  more....

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Iraq Land of Martyrs

Persecution against Christians is being unleashed in many cities and neighborhoods where Christians and Muslims coexisted peacefully, if somewhat coldly, some years ago. In fact, the patriarch of the Chaldean Church in Iraq, Archbishop Emmanuel III Delly, called it “open persecution, as in the early centuries of the Church.â€‌  more....

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Homeless man attacked for calling himself Jesus Christ

Suspected street-gang members attacked a homeless man sleeping on the sidewalk out of annoyance that he calls himself Jesus Christ, San Diego police said.Three men approached the 51-year-old man Thursday night in the San Ysidro   more....

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In pictures: Russian convent life

The nuns worship several times a day. The Church of Russia is the largest ecclesiastically independent Eastern Orthodox Church in the world with a membership estimated at more than 85 million.  more....

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Cyprus Church Says Taking Turkey To Rights Court

"This is necessary since Turkey consciously continues to destroy the Churches of our island," it said in a statement. Cyprus was divided in a 1974 Turkish invasion triggered by a brief Greek-inspired coup, prompting huge population shifts from one side of the island to the other. The north of Cyprus is a breakaway Turkish Cypriot state to which the Orthodox Church has no access.  more....

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Turkey: Muslim youth vandalise Christian bookshop

The presence of the shop has generally been accepted by local Muslims, although shop employees have received threats in the past. In addition, a man is said to have gone into the shop last November and accused staff of working with the CIA to hurt Muslims.  more....

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