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Death threats, by Islamic State in Sinai, against Egyptian Copt sons who mourn dad

April 26, 2021 Egypt Copts, Egypt, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Middle East

Nabil Habashi Salama, taken by unseen watchers; he was 'executed' by ISIS, March 2021

...be entitled to the Muslim state’s protection from outside aggression, and to be exempt from military service and the zakat taxes obligatory upon Muslims”. When the jihadists captured Mosul and...

Church surveillance, COVID-19 controls affect China’s Christians – 1 of 5 global trends

January 13, 2021 Global News -- No Particular Country Boko Haram, China, Churches, Egypt, Fulani herdsmen, Hindu nationalism, Human rights, India, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Minorities, Nigeria, Religious freedom, Turkey, Women

...Mosul during Islamic State’s control, moved to the Dohuk area only to endure attacks by Turkey. This makes their situation additionally vulnerable. Livelihoods as well as security remain key for...

Iraq: Five years after IS occupied Mosul, returnees live in fear

June 10, 2019 Iraq Bartella, Bashar Warda, Human rights, Iraq, Islamic State, Minorities, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Ramadan, Shabak

Embed from Getty Images Residents cross the streets in the Old City of Mosul in November last year. The Islamic State’s three-year occupation of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul...

Iraqi Christians hesitate to return to Bartella

February 12, 2019 Iraq Bartella, Iraq, Islamic State, Mosul, Nineveh Plains

...the Nineveh Plains they once shared with the Shabak, a mostly Shiite ethnic group. When IS seized the town east of Mosul in August 2014, both Christians and the Shabak...

UK parliamentary group calls out 27 countries for ‘significant’ religious freedom violations

December 10, 2018 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Ahmed Shaheed, Bangladesh, Central African Republic, China, Colombia, Egypt, Eritrea, Human rights, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Religious freedom, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tariq Ahmad, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

A church in Bartella, a town near the Iraqi city of Mosul, after Islamic State militants left the area in October 2016. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) A “Commentary on the...

Iraqi Christian family ordered to leave IDP camp but have nowhere to go

November 30, 2018 Iraq Ankawa, Erbil, IDPs, Iraq, Islamic State, Kurds, Mosul, Tel Skuf

...to Mosul?” Thousands of Christian homes and 120 churches and Christian shrines have been “ruined” by IS in Mosul, according to Durayed Hikmat, former advisor to the governor of Mosul....

‘Next time we will not survive’ – Middle East Christian refugee

November 12, 2018 Aleppo, Batnaya, Beirut, Hasakah, Iraq, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Lebanon, Middle East, Mosul, Qaraqosh, Raqqa, Refugees, Syria, UN

Boy outside a tent in a refugee camp in Lebanon. (Photo: World Vision)

...snippets below, the interviewees are referred to by their initials alone, to preserve their safety. “We lived in Mosul [northern Iraq] until 2005 [when] bullets were shot into our home....

Iraq: Christian school’s reopening a ‘victory over extremism’

November 8, 2018 Iraq Children, Education, Iraq, Islamic State, Minorities, Mosul, Terrorism

Schoolchildren have returned to Mosul’s oldest Christian school. (Photo: YouTube / Volunterwithus) The reopening of the oldest Christian school in Mosul – a northern Iraqi city once controlled by IS...

Iraq: More than 200 mass graves with thousands of bodies discovered

November 6, 2018 Iraq Anbar, Iraq, Islamic State, Kirkuk, Mosul, Nineveh Plains, Syria, UN

Syrian forces excavate a site, said to be a mass grave, in the west of Raqqa governorate in December last year. (Photo: Getty Images)

...mass grave in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. After capturing the city in 2014, IS had warned Christians to “leave or face execution”. In July, Human Rights Watch called...

IS sex slave recalls having to watch torture of other women

October 3, 2018 Iraq Iraq, Islamic State, Qaraqosh, Women

Iraqi Christian Rita Habib was sold four times on the ISIS sex slave market. (Photo: Still from video)

...years What churches can do to help victims of sexual violence in conflict to stay ‘part of us’ Rita, from the Iraqi town of Qaraqosh near Mosul, was 26 when...

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