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German supermarket giant Lidl has been caught doctoring images of churches to remove their crosses for a second time.

Evangelist Lou Engle organized the four-day event on the National Mall to call women to take a stand for biblical principles.

A gay coffee shop owner in Seattle kicked a Christian pro-life group out of his coffee shop because he felt offended by their presence, according to video footage of the incident.

WASHINGTON, DC — The United States government is “financing the spoils of genocide” committed by the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) against Christians and other ethnoreligious minorities in the Middle East through a United Nations program that only benefits Sunni Muslims, argued a lawyer who represents the Chaldean Catholic Archdiocese of Iraqi Kurdistan’s capital Erbil.

A teenager from a Christian family has been beaten to death by Muslim classmates at the MC Model Boys Government High School in Pakistan, allegedly for drinking from the same water cooler as them.

Al-Shabaab, an al-Qaeda (AQ) affiliate based in Somalia, has claimed responsibility for dressing in local military attire and decapitating up to five Christians in Kenya, where more than 80 percent of the population adheres to the Christian faith.

The communist government of China is once again imposing itself on the nation’s growing religious community, passing new regulations to “sinicize” religion to conform with Chinese communism.

An LGBT activist who blew up a hired van outside the Australian Christian Lobby’s headquarters disliked its “position on sexuality”, according to reports.

The Pakistani government, long accused by New Delhi of harboring jihadist groups, has returned the favor, accusing India of being a state sponsor of terrorism for allowing Hindu extremists to infiltrate its government.

WASHINGTON – A proposed piece of U.S. legislation that places a clear priority on helping Christians and other victims of Islamic State-perpetrated genocide in the Middle East may be able to help President Donald Trump’s administration keep its promise to help persecuted minority groups in Iraq and Syria.

Hope has returned to one of the oldest Christian communities in the world as they struggle to bring life again to their historical homeland in northern Iraq, where they suffered a genocide campaign at the hands of the now crumbling Islamic State.

The White House is “very concerned” over tensions surrounding Jerusalem’s Temple Mount complex, it said in a statement late Wednesday, urging Israel and Jordan to restore calm to the area after days of violent clashes.

More than 90 per cent of Christians in the UK believe their faith is being marginalized in British society, a survey has revealed.

Police officers in Muslim-majority Pakistan have accused a Christian teenager of committing blasphemy, saying he used derogatory comments against Islam’s Muhammad.

Under President Donald Trump, more Christian refugees have been admitted to the United States in the first six months of 2017 than Muslim refugees, a departure from the Obama-era.

The leader of the Nigeria-based Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) affiliate Boko Haram has reportedly reappeared in a new video, claiming Christians and Muslims cannot coexist in the West African country as equals.

An official of the Church of England suggested that it may allow transgender Christians to be “re-christened” under their new names following a sex change.

Despite skepticism from both Israel’s security network and Palestinian organizations that the Islamic State terrorist group was somehow involved in the deadly Jerusalem attack Friday night, IS members and supporters have been celebrated the attack in an internal Telegram chat and threatened that more such attacks were to be expected.

Christians in Lebanon, a country established as a sanctuary for the persecuted religious minority group in the Middle East, have lost most of their lands and majority status to Muslims, placing their future in peril, Breitbart News learned from some representatives of Lebanese Christian political parties.

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) jihadists, in the most recent edition of their propaganda magazine Rumiyah, have reportedly released “unseen” pictures of “belligerent Christians” executed by the jihadist group in the Philippines.

House members praised the unanimous passage of the Iraq and Syria Relief and Accountability Act at a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, a bill that will assess and fund humanitarian efforts to help persecuted Christians and other religious minorities in those terror-torn countries and hold perpetrators accountable.

Pakistani Christians in Sindh province are demanding justice after a 35-year-old sanitation worker died, having been exposed to toxic sewage and refused medical care by Muslim doctors who refused to touch his “unclean” body during Ramadan.

A video has surfaced on social media apparently produced by the Islamic State’s Amaq News Agency depicting jihadists fighting in Marawi, southern Philippines, where foreign fighters are attempting to establish a Caliphate.

Vice President Mike Pence addressed the World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians in Washington D.C. on Thursday with words of encouragement for persecuted Christians around the globe that the United States stands with them as God knows the plans he has for his people.

Muslim-majority Pakistan has sentenced a Christian pastor to life behind bars for allegedly sending out blasphemous texts in another instance of legal abuse of its notorious blasphemy laws.

The communist government of North Korea has long held a spot on the list of the world’s most repressive tyrannies, with human rights organizations regularly condemning the atrocities committed by the Kim family regime.

The Nineveh Plain Protection Units (NPU), a Christian militia in Iraq, is celebrating the hoisting up of a new cross in the destroyed city of Qaraqosh (also known as Baghdeda) that once had 50,000 Christians living there.

This story originally appeared at the Clarion Project: By Ryan Mauro The Syriac Military Council, a Christian militia in Syria opposed to the Assad regime, condemned Turkey for bombing its U.S.-backed Kurdish allies who are fighting ISIS. The Christians accused

Despite being present in the country long before its independence, the Christians in Pakistan are among the nation’s most persecuted victims of social discrimination, mob violence, and the near-constant threat of terrorist attacks.

What would have happened if Hitler, right after Kristallnacht in November, 1938, had been hit by hundreds of American cruise missiles?

Christians all over the world are celebrating Easter as the Sunday anniversary of Jesus Christ being resurrected from the dead.

The head of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Baghdad, Iraq released his Easter message to the people of Iraq this week, telling them not to let the spirit of Easter be dimmed, despite the suffering they face daily from persecution and terrorism, Vatican radio reported.

Christians all over the world are celebrating Good Friday, marking the anniversary of the suffering and death (the “passion”) of Jesus Christ of Nazareth outside the city walls of Jerusalem, during which Christians believe a sinless man paid the price for their sin.

Egyptian Christians are complaining about insufficient security after the horrific Palm Sunday bombing attacks, despite President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s promises to protect them.

Christians in Sydney, Australia, are being advised to hide their crosses after an Arabic-speaking gang shouting “F*** Jesus!” attacked a couple on a train while transport officers looked on from a “safe space” and did nothing.

Christians worldwide celebrate Palm Sunday, commemorating the Triumphal Entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem at the beginning of Holy Week, a week that would end with his death on Good Friday, then followed by Easter Sunday.