Iraqi police say gunmen have shot and killed two Christian brothers in a northern city in the latest in a spate of attacks targeting the religious minority. Brothers Saad and Raad Hannah were working in their auto mechanic shop in Mosul on Monday when gunmen burst in and shot them to death before fleeing, police…
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Sayed Mossa worked 15 years for the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)—largely treating landmine victims like himself—until he was rounded up on May 31 by security officers working with the Ministry of the Interior just after taking a lunch break from his work with amputees in the ICRC’s orthopedic department. Mossa was arrested,…
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The recent report about the Church of Greece demanding that the government’s planned “citizen cards” contain no reference at all to the number “666” presents us with one of the silliest paradoxes in Church history. It is also parallel to similar errors on our own continent. Not only is the bare paranoia and fear of the…
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Religious freedom groups are urging the U.S. State Department and President Barack Obama’s Administration to make new efforts to identify the worst violators of religious freedoms and up international advocacy after the release of the Annual Report on International Religious Freedom. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton released the annual report to the…
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In October, the Anti-Defamation League honored News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch with its International Leadership Award. The ADL was founded in 1913 “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.” Rupert Murdoch is the owner of Fox News. If that sounds incongruous to you, it should.…
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An international human rights advocate has joined calls for the release of a Pakistani Christian woman sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy laws. Amnesty International on Friday also called on Pakistan to revise the law under which mother of five Asia Bibi was convicted this month. The case stems from a dispute between Bibi…
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When the bright burnished October days give way to gray November, there’s nothing like a bowl of old-fashioned vegetable soup to remind us what chilly days are for. Three ways to make it: Open a can (15 minutes), open lots of cans (about an hour), or start from scratch (all afternoon). Starting from scratch is…
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Few Americans are more strident about their constitutional rights [1], particularly the Second Amendment guarantee to keep and bear arms, than are hunters and gun enthusiasts: A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. (Amendment 2, United…
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Cardinals from around the world are flocking to Rome for a daylong discussion of some of the most critical issues facing the Catholic church, including the sexual abuse of children by priests and persecution of Christians for their faith. The meeting Friday comes on the eve of a ceremony, known as a consistory, to create…
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A federal appeals court has shot down another attempt by a Christian student group to force a California law school to formally recognize it, despite the group’s refusal to allow gay members. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the University of California Hastings College of the Law could legally deny funding and other…
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