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July 28, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Nigeria continues to increase exponentially — but this persecution rarely makes the news outside that country. Now the...
July 27, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan: This report notes that “to date, ICC has documented at least 12 incidents in which Christians were...
July 26, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: the authors are correct in saying that “denying history, or simply re-writing it, seems to be a major goal...
July 25, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said the conversion of Hagia Sophia “brutally insults not only the...
July 24, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: here is an important extract from a statement from Dr. Anthony J. Limberakis, National Commander of the Order of...
July 23, 2020
The persecution of Christians in Nigeria has become a matter of attacks every few days. With grim and unremitting fury, Muslim Fulani herdsmen, along...
July 22, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Kenya: Even though Kenya has a Christian majority (Kenya is 80% Christian, including over 600,000 Orthodox Christians),...
July 21, 2020
Persecution of Christians in North Korea: although little news escapes the government’s iron grip, it is abundantly established that North...
July 20, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Morocco: in the early centuries of Christianity, North Africa was a center of Latin-speaking Orthodoxy. It was the home...
July 19, 2020
Persecution of Christians in China: this line from the story below is telling: “A Three-Self church member from Jiangxi’s Poyang county, in her 80s,...
July 18, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: Dr. Elizabeth Prodromou, director of the Initiative on Religion, Law, and Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of...
July 17, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan: in this case, the church’s pastor says: “Although it was an illegal demand against Pakistan’s constitution,...
July 16, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: His Beatitude Patriarch Theodoros of Alexandria and All Africa is, of course, correct when he says that...
July 15, 2020
Here is a new indication of the Turkish government’s lack of respect for Turkey’s rich Christian heritage. It is also a sign that the...
July 14, 2020
The conversion of Hagia Sophia to a mosque is not the end of the matter. His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros of America states: “We must...
July 13, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: the full statement of the Order of Saint Andrew the Apostle, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, is here....
July 13, 2020
The Turkish government’s decision to convert Hagia Sophia to a mosque was not a courageous act, but a deeply ill-advised act of memoricide that...
July 11, 2020
The Order of Saint Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, calls upon international bodies and the governments of the world to recognize that...
July 10, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Pakistan: Christians of all faith traditions are threatened by this declaration. Pakistan’s small and courageous...
July 9, 2020
Persecution of Christians in Turkey: this act in the venerable Armenian Orthodox Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Akhtamar Island demonstrates the same...