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North Korea’s human rights in UN spotlight

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Despite initial opposition from China and Russia, the UN Security Council is discussing North Korea’s human rights record. According to the BBC, this comes ‘days after the UN General Assembly voted in favour of referring North Korea to the International Criminal Court to face charges of crimes against humanity.’ Earlier . . . Read More

Muslims condemn threats toward Egypt’s Christians

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According to Fides News Agency, recognized Muslim academics from the Arab world’s most prestigious Islamic university have denounced recent threats made by extremist Islamists against Egyptian Christians. In the lead up to Christmas, celebrated on Jan. 7 by Coptic Christians, death threats and organized attacks against Christian communities have been . . . Read More

Monastery converted to prison

Sources inside Mosul, controlled by the self-proclaimed “Islamic State,” have confirmed that during the third week of December, IS militants transported nearly 150 blindfolded people and detained them inside the city’s St. George Monastery.  According to the sources, as “a number of people from nearby houses to the monastery,” the detainees were . . . Read More

‘Islamic State’ terror is 2014 top story

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The surge of the self-proclaimed “Islamic State” across Syria and Iraq, causing hundreds of thousands of religious and ethnic minorities to flee, is the top religion news story of 2014, according to the Religion Newswriters Assocation. The IS horror stripped northern Iraq nearly completely clear of its Christian population, which . . . Read More