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Reports indicate that 70 Christians were beheaded by Islamic militants in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The group that killed the faithful is an affiliate of the Islamic state.
Persecution of Christian minorities climaxed following the Syrian civil war and later by its spillover but has since intensified further. [4] [5] [6] Christians have been subjected to massacres, forced conversions, rape, sexual slavery, and the systematic destruction of their historical sites, churches and other places of worship.
In October 2020, Christian News Now reported that "Ayariga was a Christian migrant worker from Ghana". [42] In the book The 21: A Journey into the Land of Coptic Martyrs , Martin Mosebach, who traveled to Egypt to meet the families of the martyrs, also states that Ayariga said "I am a Christian". [ 43 ]
News of massacres of Christians in parts of Nigeria's Middle Belt continued to emerge regularly. Around Christmas 2023 at least 300 Christians were murdered in Plateau State. None of the perpetrators were held to account. [94] In the Diocese of Makurdi, in Benue State, also in the Middle Belt, at least 500 Christians were killed throughout 2023 ...
Many Christians died en route to north Africa during these expulsions. [118] [119] Christians under the Almoravids suffered persecutions and mass expulsions to Africa. In 1099 the Almoravids sacked the great church of the city of Granada. In 1101 Christians fled from the city of Valencia to the Catholic kingdoms.
The wife of a missionary who was killed in a “violent, criminal attack” in Africa last week was arrested in connection to his death, his church announced.. Beau Shroyer, 44, from Detroit Lakes ...
The women and children of a Ain Ebel, a Christian Village Lebanon, have fled. Left behind are the men who are protecting their ancestral land in the face of Israel's missiles.
Oren argues that with the exception of Israel, Christians in the Middle East have endured severe political and cultural hardships: in Egypt, Muslim extremists have subjected Coptic Christians with massacres from terrorist attacks, resulting in the exodus of Copts from their homes; in Iraq, 1,000 Christians were killed in Baghdad between the ...