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April 08 2013 By virtueonline Cairo clashes at St Mark's Coptic Cathedral after funerals

Mourners inside the church had earlier chanted slogans against Egypt's Islamist President, Mohammed Morsi.

Witnesses told local TV stations that the violence started when a mob attacked mourners as they exited the cathedral, pelting them with stones and petrol bombs. There was initially little police presence.

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April 05 2013 By virtueonline Saudi Arabia declares destruction of all churches in region

All citizens must adhere to Islam, and conversion to another religion is punishable by death. Public Christian worship is forbidden; worshipers risk imprisonment, lashing, deportation, and torture. Evangelizing Muslims and distributing non-Islamic materials is illegal. Muslims who convert to Christianity risk honor killings and foreign Christian workers have been exposed to abuse from employers.

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March 29 2013 By virtueonline ATTACKS AGAINST CHRISTIANS CONTINUE IN NIGERIA

The Rt. Rev. Julian Dobbs, Anglican Bishop of the Church of Nigeria [based in McLean, Virginia] returned Thursday from a visit to Nigeria's capital, Abuja where he discussed the violence with church leaders.

Bishop Dobbs said, "The continuing violence perpetrated against Christians in Nigeria is indefensible. It is time for the Nigerian government and global community to utilize all resources available to stop attacks initiated by Boko Haram."

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March 22 2013 By virtueonline Brother Andrew and the "Murder" of Osama bin Laden

So Brother Andrew's denunciation of the U.S. Navy Seals' killing of Osama bin Laden in a recent CHRISTIANITY TODAY interview (http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/channel/utilities/print.html?type=article&id=103400) is saddening if not shocking. Here's his quote:

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March 08 2013 By virtueonline IRAN: FIVE CHURCH OF IRAN MEMBERS TO FACE TRIAL ON POLITICAL CHARGES

The five men were amongst seven people arrested on 12 October 2012 during an evening raid by the security services on a house in Shiraz where a prayer service was underway. They were initially held in Plaque 100, the Intelligence Ministry's notorious detention centre, before being transferred to Adel-Abad Prison, where they were detained separately from other prisoners.

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March 04 2013 By virtueonline Time stops in Rome, but war on Christians continues

The Islamist group, boasting of ties to the al-Qaeda-linked terror group al-Shabaab, issued a chilling threat:

"We thank our young men, trained in Somalia, for killing an infidel. Many more will die. We will burn homes and churches. We have not finished: At Easter, be prepared for disaster."

Mushi's assassination comes a week after the murder of a Protestant pastor named Mathew Kachira, according to the Fides report.

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February 21 2013 By virtueonline Churches torched in Egypt

AINA said this was prompted by Salafists Muslims who instigated the villagers to attack the church because the church is "an unlawful neighbor to the Muslims who live adjacent to it and must therefore be moved".

AINA said they demanded the relocation of the church away from Muslim homes and are not allowing its priest, Pastor Domadios, to enter the church. All these events were witnessed by the security authorities who AINA said did nothing to stop the attack.

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February 11 2013 By virtueonline The Silent Exodus of Syria's Christians

Archdeacon Emanuel Youkhana of the Assyrian Church of the East, despite recent heart surgery, is now constantly on the road in Lebanon and Iraq trying to cope with the refugee crisis. He wrote to me today:

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February 08 2013 By virtueonline The Jihad On Free Speech

In some cases, the targets of their wrath have caved in to their demands.

* Last week, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Worcester, Mass., canceled a talk on Islam by author Robert Spencer after local Muslim groups, egged on by Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations, enlisted a sympathetic Boston Globe reporter to smear Spencer as a "bigot."

"We applaud the diocese's decision," CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper gloated.

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February 06 2013 By virtueonline WASHINGTON: Persecution in China climbs for 7th year

"Compared with the statistics in ChinaAid's past annual reports, this trend of worsening persecution has persisted for the past seven years," the report said, "with an average increase of 24.5 percent in the total of all six categories of persecution statistics tracked by ChinaAid."

A secret Chinese government document issued in September 2011, which was released by ChinaAid, verified the focus on eradicating the house church, as did the number of incidences reported.

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