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Christians in Algeria request continued prayer for Pastor Rachid Seighir, and his bookshop assistant Nouh Hamami. as the decision in their appeal against proselytising charges has been postponed to 6 June.

Three Christians Arrested Under Iran’s Amended Penal Code

Category: Newsfeed

Publication Date: 26/5/2021

Source: Persecution - International Christian Concern

Three Christian converts from Fardis were charged on May 5 under Article 500 of the Penal Code, and the first known Christians facing these charges since the amendments in February. Amin Khaki, Milad Goodarzi, and Alireza Nourmohammadi were charged with “engaging in propaganda that educates in a deviant way contrary to the holy religion of Islam”.

Syria’s Greek Orthodox celebrate Assad’s victory in presidential election

Category: Newsfeed

Publication Date: 28/5/2021

Source: Greek City Times

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won a fourth term in office with 95.1% of the votes. Following Assad’s victory, Syria’s Greek Orthodox community went to the streets to celebrate.

Syria: “A Ten-Year-Long Winter”

Category: Newsfeed

Author: Fr. Georges Aboud

Publication Date: 26/5/2021

Source: SSPX News

After 10 years of civil war in Syria, Christians represent only 2% of the population, less than half of those who were there at the start of the conflict. “Ten years ago, on March 15, 2011, the events began in Syria,” Dr. Nabil Antaki writes in the introduction in his Aleppo letter no. 41 of March 15, 2021, published on Facebook by the Aleppo Blue Marists.

The church and the street: Copts and interest representation from Mubarak to Sisi

Category: Annotaded bibliography

Author: Paul Rowe

Publisher/Publication: Religion, State & Society

Volume/Issue: 48(5)

DOI/ISBN: 10.1080/09637494.2020.1849894

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