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Lebanese Christians

8/26/2025

Christians in Lebanon are under attack, and yet no one talks about their welfare. We need people to acknowledge and bring light to this issue and finally stand up for Christians!

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BREAKING REPORT: Trump Administration Seriously Discussing Establishing Christian State In Levant

by L Todd Wood

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[Beirut, Lebanon] - CDM is on the ground in Beirut reporting on the plight of the Christian community in the Middle East.

Lebanon, which experienced a civil war which began in the 1970s that weakened the Christian position, was the only Christian nation in the Levant.

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The 7 Churches of Revelation

8/23/2025

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Killing Christians in Egypt

8/23/2025

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Egypt’s War Against the World’s Oldest Christian Monastery

8/23/2025

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St. Catherine’s Monastery, 275 miles from Cairo in the depths of the Sinai desert, is the world’s oldest continuously inhabited Christian monastery. It is also one of Christianity’s oldest institutions, built at the foot of the mountain where Moses is believed to have seen the burning bush and subsequently received the Ten Commandments. Run by Greek Orthodox monks—some 25 of them live there today—it has served as a sanctuary of worship, refuge, and scholarship for more than 1,500 years.

I grew up in Egypt’s Coptic Christian community; once a year my church would pile us into a bus for our annual pilgrimage to the monastery. But the standing of this holy place is now at grave risk.

In May, an Egyptian court ruled that the monastery’s monks are mere “occupants,” allowing the state to essentially take control of what is—and is not—allowed at St. Catherine’s, and stripping the monks of all legal authority. With enough pressure, they may be forced to abandon the monastery altogether.

When the Greek foreign minister sat down with his Egyptian counterpart earlier this month, they faced a quiet standoff over exactly this possibility. The outcome of this fight will signal whether Egypt still makes room for religion that is outside state control.

Over the last decade, Cairo has steadily chipped away at St. Catherine’s autonomy—a microcosm of Egypt’s broader campaign against the country’s estimated 10 to 15 million Christians in the majority Sunni Muslim nation.

St. Catherine’s significance lies not just in its history, but in its unparalleled manuscript collection, which rivals the Vatican’s with a continuous record stretching back centuries.

For decades, researchers have been able to study its manuscripts with approval from the monks. The government, however, seized control over academic access to the site in 2023, revoking the monastery’s long-standing authority to oversee the research.

Since the government takeover, the new state-run system has yet to approve a single research request.

Cairo also canceled an important, ongoing project to digitize the manuscripts that entailed collaboration among the monastery, UCLA, and an American NGO called the Early Manuscripts Electronic Library. In early 2024, Egyptian authorities denied a group of visiting scholars entry to the monastery’s library, including an American who had worked closely with the monks for years. No explanation was ever given for these steps.

Together, these moves have undermined the monastery’s autonomy and effectively sidelined the monastic community that has preserved the site for centuries. Though worship is still allowed, scholarship has stalled, and the government has hollowed out the monastery’s religious stewardship...

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No Punishment, No Repentance: The Persecution Of Christians In Egypt

8/23/2025

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Memories of the attack have never faded from Souad Thabet's mind.

An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman in her 70s, Souad wishes she could forget the moment that a group of Muslim men invaded her home in El-Karam village in Egypt. They dragged her out of the house and stripped her. In her ears, is the noise and giggle of the large crowd of spectators. She was mocked and beaten. Her husband was too.

That was in 2016. Recently, Souad learned that her attackers have been acquitted.

El-Karam is a village of 40,000 people, 5 per cent Coptic Christian. A rumour spread in the village that Souad's son Ashraf was having an affair with a married Muslim woman. Both Ashraf and the woman, Nagwa, denied the allegation. Ashraf believed the rumour to have been spread by Nagwa's husband, who used to be his business partner, but they had fallen out. Ashraf even received death threats and reported them to the police. However, authorities did nothing, and he finally fled the village with his wife and children. His parents remained behind.

One night, a mob of local Muslims armed with weapons broke into several Christian homes, including Ashraf's. After looting the properties, they set fire to them. Ashraf's mother was dragged outside and stripped by Nagwa's husband, his father and brother, as she later testified.

Reconciliation without repentance
Violent mob attacks on Christians in Egypt mostly occur within mixed Muslim/Christian communities, with Christians generally the much smaller population. Radicalised Muslims, and sometimes the local Imams, promote the shunning of Christians, creating a fertile ground for aggression. Rumours of alleged blasphemy, the opening of a new church or even a small conflict over a trivial matter can trigger organised attacks on local Christians.

Often, these attacks are followed by so-called 'reconciliation sessions' meant to resolve the conflict. Christians usually have no choice but to participate. Next, they are pressured, with threats and intimidation, to accept the terms imposed on them: to change their testimonies against the perpetrators or recant their complaints to the authorities. This practice perpetrates a climate of impunity where Muslims who have committed crimes against Christians are cleared of charges or not prosecuted at all...

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PRAY: Fatal Shooting at Seattle Church Leaves Father Dead

8/2/2025

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A deadly shooting at a Seattle church has left a young father dead.

The shooting took place at The Pursuit Seattle Church on Thursday, July 31, 2025, according to King 5 News. The suspect fled in a white Hyundai at the scene. The 28-year-old man who was killed was a member of Pursuit Seattle, and was at the church with his child and wife when the event took place.

On X, lead pastor Russell Johnson said that 30 bullets were fired in this incident...

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Montreal Fines Church $2,500 For Hosting A Controversial American Singer

8/2/2025

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Christian artist Sean Feucht has been forced to find new venues for all six of his most recent shows in Canada.

On Friday, Sean Feucht, a contemporary Christian worship music artist known for his support of conservative political causes and the MAGA movement, led a worship service at the Spanish-speaking Église MR church in Montreal as part of his Revive in 25 tour. While a seemingly innocuous event, the service has drawn attention to the limits of religious freedom in Canada.

Feucht's arrival at the church was met with protesters, one of whom threw two smoke bombs at Feucht upon entering the church, where "despite a police presence, the suspect was not detained," reports Rebel News' Alexandra Lavoie. The Gazette reported that the scene inside the church was more peaceful: "A few dozen people sang and prayed while a row of police officers kept watch outside."

After the service was over, the city of Montreal issued a $2,500 fine to the church for organizing what they called "a concert" without a proper permit. City spokesperson Catherine Cadotte said the fine was issued after the city's borough inspectors had already warned the church, reports The Gazette. The Democracy Fund, a Canadian charity dedicated to constitutional rights, has agreed to provide legal defense to the church...

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Lebanese Christians

BREAKING REPORT: Trump Administration Seriously Discussing Establishing Christian State In Levant

by L Todd Wood

The 7 Churches of Revelation

Times of Fire

​Times of Deception

Killing Christians in Egypt

Egypt’s War Against the World’s Oldest Christian Monastery

No Punishment, No Repentance: The Persecution Of Christians In Egypt

PRAY: Fatal Shooting at Seattle Church Leaves Father Dead

Montreal Fines Church $2,500 For Hosting A Controversial American Singer

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