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Egypt

Egypt's El-Sisi inaugurates new cathedral ahead of Coptic Christmas

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi inaugurated Egypt's largest church on Sunday on the eve of Coptic Christmas, sending a message of tolerance and unity in the predominantly Muslim country.

07/01/2019

India

American Christian missionary killed by remote island tribe

An American Christian missionary has reportedly been killed by an isolated tribe on North Sentienel Island off the coast of India, after visiting the island for the second time.

22/11/2018

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Venice glows red to express solidarity with persecuted Christians

Venice has been lit red to express solidarity with persecuted Christians, including Asia Bibi, and support religious freedom all over the world.

21/11/2018

Italy

Pope's prayers come true as tweak mooted for key Bible passage

One of the most famous and widely-recited passages of the Bible is set to change, it has emerged.

16/11/2018

Pakistan

Islamist party in Pakistan prevents Christian woman from fleeing

An Islamist party in Pakistan has said it will call off protests it was planning after a Christian woman was found not guilty of committing blasphemy.

03/11/2018

Egypt

So-called Islamic State say they shot dead seven Christians in Egypt

Thousands of Christian mourners prepared on Saturday to bury six members of the same family who were killed while returning from a baptism at a Coptic monastery in Egypt's Minya province.

03/11/2018

Egypt

Christians in Egypt prepare to bury dead a day after attack

Gunmen killed at least seven in an attack on a bus driving towards a Coptic Christian monastery in Egypt.

02/11/2018

Albania

The Bektashis: A Sufi community that still stands for tolerance despit

The Bektashi Order is a Sufi Islamic creed with a long mystic tradition in Albania. Espoused by the Janissaries, the elite soldiers of the Ottoman Empire largely recruited from Christian areas of the Balkans. The Sufi faith does not force devotees to observe the basics of traditional Islam.

11/06/2018

Indonesia

Suicide bombers kills at least a dozen in attacks on churches in Indonesia

So-called Islamic State claim respnsibility, but police say they suspect the bombers are members of a homegrown group inspired by IS.

13/05/2018

Turkey

US Pastor faces up to 35 years in prison in Turkey

President Trump took to Twitter in support of Pastor Brunson saying he was being imprisoned for “no reason” in Turkey and he urged President Erdoğan to release him.

07/05/2018

Ireland

Preserved heart of Dublin's patron saint returned home

The heart, preserved in a wooden box sealed with iron for over eight centuries, has no monetary value, but is a priceless relic for Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, from where it was stolen six years' ago.

27/04/2018

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Salvadoreans cleanse their souls with an Easter whipping

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27/03/2018

Egypt

Egypt's Christians brace for vote & hope for better times

With President al-Sisi championing the Copts since 2014, their vote looks likely to support the status quo in the presidential election

25/03/2018

Israel

Pre-Christian story of Noah and other figures on public display

Israel Museum shows fragment of story expanding on material in Biblical book of Genesis

21/03/2018

USA

America's most-loved evangelist Billy Graham dies

Friend to 12 presidents and the first revivalist preacher to make a national impact via television and the media, he established a model for building a proseletysing church that kept the loyalty of its congregation, a model some later tele-evangelists copied to get fabulously rich.

21/02/2018

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'Black Jesus' procession draws 380,000 in Manila

Agoraphobic? This may be hard to watch.

09/01/2018

World News

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas

From St. Petersburg to Bethlehem and beyond, presidents joined worshippers to usher in Christmas Day

07/01/2018

Spain

Spain celebrates Three Kings’ Day

Guess what - politics coloured the celebrations in Catalonia.

06/01/2018

USA

Euroviews. View: Christians don't have a Christmas monopoly on Jesus

Christians and Muslims both love Jesus and his mother, writes author Haroon Moghul

25/12/2017

World News

Christians mark Christmas in the Middle East and in other parts of the

Christian communities gather to celebrate the build up to Christmas.

24/12/2017