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On the first anniversary of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians on a beach in Libya, Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill denounced in a joint declaration the systematic persecution of Christians throughout the world.

Three Christian high school students will stand trial for blasphemy in Egypt Thursday on charges that they insulted Islam, after a video of the students emerged in which they allegedly mock Muslim prayers. If found guilty, the three teenagers could face

CAIRO (AP) — Three Coptic Christian students face charges of insulting Islam and will stand trial this week after appearing in a video mocking Muslim prayers, one of a series of court cases that reflect lingering religious intolerance and Muslim-Christian

TEL AVIV – At a UN forum in Geneva, leaders of Egypt’s Coptic Christian community called for the abolition of an “exploitative” blasphemy law, but praised Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for saving them from the oppression of the Muslim Brotherhood.

In the coming days, construction will commence on a new church in Egypt dedicated to the martyred Coptic Christians beheaded by the Islamic State in Libya in February.

Egyptian authorities arrested five Coptic Christian children after a Muslim mob accused them of blasphemy. The mob was upset they appeared in a video that allegedly “mocked” Islam, but really only made fun of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), which is determined to wipe Christianity, Judaism, and non-compliant Muslims off the Earth.

The headless corpse of Mansour Saad Awad, an Egyptian Christian, has been found by Libyan security forces on the outskirts of the town of Mechili, in eastern Libya. The victim of the barbaric murder worked in a poultry farm in the area. No one has yet stepped forward to take credit for the slaying, but the m.o. matches the preferred execution style of the Islamic State (ISIS).

To protect a precious archaeological area that stretches around a church dating back to the fourth century AD, a group of Coptic monks from the Monastery of Saint Macarius have staged a resistance to a road-building project, going so far as to lie down in front of approaching bulldozers.

In light of the targeting of Christians by the Islamic State–particularly in Libya and Syria–Christian Coptics in the United States assembled before the White House this week to demand the Obama administration address the plight of their brethren in the Middle East.

A possible American accent was detected in the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) video which showed the slaughter of 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt on a Libyan beach.

TELEGRAPH: The beheading of 21 Coptic Christians in Libya by forces sympathetic to Islamic State over recent days is sadly not an isolated case.

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After a gunman murdered three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, NC, the Twitter hashtag #MuslimLivesMatter trended worldwide.

The White House is condemning the murder of Egyptian “innocents” and “citizens,” but failed to note that the victims were killed because of their Christianity.

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The White House tweeted multiple times encouraging people to sign up for Obamacare on Sunday, but said nothing of the Christian hostages slaughtered by ISIS.

Radical jihadist group Ansar al-Sharia kidnapped twenty Egyptian Christians in Sirte, Libya, which is 310 miles east of Tripoli. Identities were not released, but experts believe they were Coptic Christians.