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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.
The most important sources written during or shortly after the events are: The al-Nawādir al-Sultaniyya wa'l-Maḥāsin al-Yūsufiyya ("Anecdotes of the Sultan and Virtues of Yusuf", in 2001 translated by D. S. Richards as The Rare and Excellent History of Saladin), an Arabic biography of Saladin written by the Kurdish chronicler Baha ad-Din ibn Shaddad who served in Saladin's camp and was an ...
Al-Hakim was "half-insane", and had perpetrated the only general persecution of Christians by Muslims until the Crusades. [122] Al-Hakim's mother was a Christian, and he had been raised mainly by Christians, and even through the persecution al-Hakim employed Christian ministers in his government. [123]
Lebanon’s history of sectarian conflict dates back generations. But political tension between some Christians and Shiite Muslims was exacerbated by the country’s 15-year communal civil war ...
That occurred as part of a series of events during the Lebanese Civil War in which Palestinians joined the Muslim forces, [7] in the context of the Christian-Muslim divide, [8] and soon Beirut was divided along the Green Line, with Christian enclaves to the east and Muslims to the west. [9] On 9 January, the militias began a siege of Damour and ...
The group stormed the Christian pro-Syrian Social Nationalist Party settlement of Chekka as well as Hamat. An estimated 200 people were killed in the ensuing 24 hours. Residents tried to flee through a tunnel to Batroun but the attackers blocked the exit. Many were killed as their cars caught fire, and they suffocated to death. [10] Tel al ...
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 ]
Christians executed for refusing to convert to Islam (37 P) ... Christian saints killed by Muslims (73 P) T. Persecution of Christians in Turkey (4 C, 5 P)