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The “pure genocide” of Christians in Nigeria, as it has been characterized by some international observers, has reached new levels, according to an April 10, 2023 report by the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, also known as “Intersociety”, a nonprofit human rights organization based in Nigeria.According to the report, since the Islamic uprising began in 2009, 52,250 Christians “have been butchered or hacked to death” in Nigeria. With each passing year, the number of slain grows. In just the first 100 days of this year, “no fewer than 1,041 defenseless Christians were hacked to death by...

The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the first time in 1600 years, no mass was celebrated in Mosul. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) seized Iraq’s second largest city on June 10, causing most Christians in the region to flee in terror, in new kinship with the torment of Christ crucified on the cross. The remnant of Mosul’s ancient Christian community, long inhabitants of the place where many believe Jonah to be buried, now...

150 Christian citizens of Israel demonstrated on Sunday (Mar. 23) outside the European Union’s delegation in Tel Aviv against the EU’s silence in relation to what they termed “the ethnic cleansing of Christians throughout the Middle East.” The protesters demanded that the EU act on their own cry for human rights and fight for the Christians throughout the Middle East, who are quickly becoming extinct everywhere but Israel. Father Gabriel Nadaf, a Greek Orthodox priest from Nazareth and strong proponent of Christian enlistment in the IDF, demanded that the attacks on Christians be stopped and thanked Israel for being a...

On Christmas Day, more than three dozen Christians in Iraq were reportedly killed. The vicious murders aimed specifically at embattled Iraqi Christians, though, are nothing new. Under "Democracy," Iraqi Christians Face Potential Extinction The New American 26 December 2013 === Related articles: Christian Massacres: A Result of U.S. Foreign Policy World Turns Away as Rebel Massacres of Syrian Christians Intensify Iraq 10 Years After Saddam’s Capture Bombings in Iraq Target Homes of Christians Iraq: As American Troops Leave, Persecuted Christians Flee UN & Obama Supporting Islamo-Marxist Terror Group in Iraq Iraq War Paying Off — for China Amid Syria...

While the Obama administration praises the Syrian rebels, the rebel army is allegedly carrying out massacres similar to those attributed to the regime they would overthrow. Syrian Rebels Massacre Christian Village The New American 30 May 2013 === Related Articles: Syrian Rebel Alliance Openly Threatens Ethnic Cleansing John McCain Visits Rebel Army in Syria Rand Paul: Senate Is Arming Al-Qaeda and Rushing to War in Syria Top Syrian Rebel Group Merges With Al-Qaeda in Iraq U.S. Increases Aid to Syrian Rebel Forces, Again Reports: U.S. Personnel Arming and Training Syrian Rebels UN Investigator Claims Evidence Syrian Rebels Used Sarin...