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Thousands of people turned out to pay their final respects to Pope Shenouda III, the leader of Egypt’s Coptic Christians for the last 40 years. The funeral was held today at the Cathedral of St Mark…
Egypt: Nuns Traumatized after School Attack
26 Mar 2012
Two nuns in Upper Egypt faced ‘unimaginable fear’ – with one later hospitalized over the emotional trauma – when 1,500 Muslim villagers brandishing swords and knives trapped them inside a guesthouse last week and threatened to…
Global Day of Prayer & Fasting for North Korea
26 Mar 2012
‘Arise warriors of God! Open Doors invites you to take up your position and pray and fast for North Korea.’ Open Doors is calling on all Believers to come together in prayer and fasting for North…
Afghanistan: NGOs withdrawing medical care
18 Mar 2012
A Christian in the country writes, ‘ Over the past several years, a number of hospitals and medical clinics have been put into operation in the Land on our Hearts and many doctors, nurses and midwives…
The Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, the highest official of religious law in the Sunni country declared that it is ‘necessary to destroy all the churches’ in the region, implying that no other religion besides Islam…
Syria: Forty tons of aid from Iran
18 Mar 2012
On the first anniversary of anti-government uprisings in Syria (March 15th) forty tons of Iranian aid supplies arrived in Damascus. The shipment is the first of four planeloads that Iran plans to send to its most…