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The Fides news agency announced in a special report Saturday that at least 447 Christian missionaries have “died violently” in the first 17 years of the third millennium.

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction declared earlier this month that the Palestinian people needs more murderers, a post on its Facebook page commemorating the anniversary of a terror attack said. The terrorist also called on more Palestinians to join the “resistance” in order to fight the “hostile” Americans and President Donald Trump’s Jerusalem recognition. 

JERUSALEM – Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party this week marked the 40th anniversary of The Coastal Road massacre – the most lethal terror attack in Israel’s history in which 37 Israelis, including 13 children, were murdered – by honoring the “thunderous souls” of the Palestinian murderers and asserting that the infamous Dalal Mughrabi, who orchestrated the attack, died in a “most spectacular way” by first killing as many Israelis as possible.

TEL AVIV – A Palestinian couple from Gaza have named their triplets Jerusalem, Capital and Palestine in protest of President Donald Trump’s December recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority’s new budget now uses half of all its foreign aid for its Pay-for-Slay program rewarding terrorists and their families for carrying out attacks against Israelis.

The Palestinian Authority’s 2017 budget shows a “huge increase” in the funding of salaries for imprisoned terrorists and the families of “martyrs,” an Israeli research institute revealed on Wednesday.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan marked the one-year anniversary of the attempt to overthrow him by dedicating a monument to those killed during the July 2016 coup, and promising to “rip the heads off” the traitors who perpetrated it.

More than 30 Israeli families who have lost relatives to terrorist attacks have signed a letter to FIFA, the world governing body for soccer, accusing the Palestine Football Association (PFA) and its president, Jibril Rajoub, with severe violations of its statutes, including incitement to terrorism.

TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority named a youth camp starting this week after a female terrorist responsible for one of the worst terror attacks in Israel’s history which claimed the lives of 38 civilians including 13 children.

The Associated Press reported Monday that former President Barack Obama released $221 million in U.S. funding for the Palestinian Authority on the morning of Friday, January 20 — just hours before he was to leave office.

TEL AVIV – Nazareth, a predominantly Arab town in northern Israel, held an anti-violence event for children last week in honor of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered Israelis in Jerusalem last year.

Christianity is experiencing an unprecedented boom on the African continent and now accounts for more than half of Africa’s total population, while Christian affiliation and practice continue to ebb in Europe, signaling a major demographic shift in global Christianity. An

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) confirmed American humanitarian worker Kayla Mueller’s death in February. Since then, her family revealed that her Christian faith kept her going through the hell the terrorist group put her through.

In the wake of the Islamic State’s (ISIS) latest slaughter of Christians in Libya, Pope Francis spoke out Tuesday to express his “great distress and sadness” at the news of the “shocking violence perpetrated against innocent Christians.”

Continuing his string of appeals calling attention to the plight of persecuted Christians throughout the world, Pope Francis employed forceful language Monday in his midday address to the pilgrims gathered in Saint Peter’s Square, decrying violence against Christians and exhorting the international community not to stand by without taking meaningful action.

In his Palm Sunday homily, Pope Francis held up persecuted Christians as modern heroes because of their faithfulness to God even in the midst of hardships. They are the ones who follow Jesus on his path of humiliation, Francis said.

The Coptic Orthodox Church has announced that the 21 Egyptian Christians murdered by the Islamic State in Libya will be commemorated in its Church calendar as martyrs and saints.

This morning, Pope Francis condemned the brutal slaying of 21 Coptic Christians perpetrated by ISIS in Libya over the weekend, proclaiming them martyrs killed out of hatred of their Christian faith.