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Egypt's Christians celebrate Christmas amid fears
Cairo :: Egypt | over 1 year ago
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Egypt's Christians are celebrating their first Christmas after the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak amid tight security and a display of national unity to allay fears of growing powers of Islamists. The celebrations of Orthodox
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Muslim, Christians clash in southern Egypt
Cairo :: Egypt | over 1 year ago
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Around 200 Coptic Christians and Muslims clashed in a southern Egyptian province after a drawing depicting the Prophet Muhammad was posted on a local Christian student's Facebook page. Troops sealed off several flashpoint
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VIDEO: Egypt's Christians remember deadly attack
Alexandria :: Egypt | over 1 year ago
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Egypt's Christians remember deadly attack 30 December 2011 Last updated at 12:15 ET Egypt's Coptic Christians are preparing to mark the first anniversary of a devastating church attack in Alexandria, with some fearing similar attacks could occur
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Zambia: David Livingstone Memorial Set for March 2013
Livingstone :: Zambia | over 1 year ago
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The event, which will include international arts, cultural and sport festivals, will be held between March and October 2013 in Livingstone and abroad. David Livingstone Bicentenary 2013 committee liaison officer, Frederick Mwendapole said the event
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God's far from dead in the global South
London :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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For the past decade, the Western world's attention has been transfixed by Islam. But in sub-Saharan Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, it's Christianity that's on the march. Today, Christianity claims 2.18 billion believers a third of the world's
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Christianity is still largest religion in the world despite shift away from Europe
São Paulo :: Brazil | over 1 year ago
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Christianity is still the largest religion in the world but followers have moved away from Europe Only one-quarter of world's population remain in Europe as followers spread across Asia, Africa and Americas Two-thirds of the flock were in Europe 100
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Study: Christianity grows exponentially in Africa
Shanghai :: China | over 1 year ago
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Billed as the most comprehensive and reliable study to date, the Pew Research Center's "Global Christianity" reports on self-identified Christian populations based on more than 2,400 sources of information, especially census and survey data. Findings
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Uganda: First South Ankole Bishop Sees Far
Ntungamo :: Uganda | over 1 year ago
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First South Ankole Bishop Sees Far Michael Mubangizi 9 November 2011 It is official. Rev Canon Nathan Ahimbisibwe is the newly elected Bishop for South Ankole diocese. Currently the Chaplain at St James chapel Makerere University Business School,
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Restored: Livingstone’s Fading Notes From Africa
Blantyre :: Malawi | over 1 year ago
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The resulting document, published for the first time, helps flesh out the life of Livingstone, who in his day in Britain was revered as an adventurer and antislavery activist but who has become more broadly, and shallowly, known as the object of
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Egypt: Coptic Church Delegation Congratulates Grand Sheikh, Mufti On Eidul-Adha
Cairo :: Egypt | over 1 year ago
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Coptic Church Delegation Congratulates Grand Sheikh, Mufti On Eidul-Adha 4 November 2011 Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Dr. Ahmed el Tayyeb received a delegation of bishops from the Coptic Orthodox Church who came to greet him on the occasion of the
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