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Egypt moves to dissolve Brotherhood NGO: reports
CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s army-backed government will dissolve the Muslim Brotherhood as a non-governmental organization within days, a newspaper reported on Friday, a move that would press a crackdown...
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Pope Francis announces global day of fasting and prayer for Syria
Pope Francis has called for a global day of prayer and fasting for peace in Syria, and the Vatican has organized a full day of events for Saturday. The pope has called for all Christians, non-Christian...
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G20 Summit Ends: World Leaders Refuse to Back President Obama on Syria
US president Barack Obama resisted pressure to abandon plans for air strikes against Syria and enlisted the support of 10 fellow leaders for a “strong” response to a chemical weapons attack at the G20...
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Christians worldwide praying for Syria
Christians around the world are praying today for peace in Syria and the wellbeing of millions of refugees who have left their homes because of the fighting. Christians worldwide praying for...
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Activists: Syrian rebels take Christian village
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Rebels including al-Qaida-linked fighters gained control of a Christian village northeast of the capital Damascus, Syrian activists said Sunday. Government media provided a...
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Egypt Now Opposes Obama’s Syrian War
It’s almost like they have some mysterious reason for not wanting the Muslim Brotherhood to take over Syria. And it’s almost like alienating a country has geopolitical consequences. Or as the New...
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Tens of thousands in Syria peace vigil at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people answered Pope Francis’ call for a four-hour Syria peace vigil in St. Peter’s Square late Saturday, joining Christians and non-Christians alike in similar...
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War comes to Syria’s quiet Christian hinterland
At the end of last year I visited the ancient Christian town of Maloula in a deep gorge in the mountains 20 miles north-west of Damascus. It has been a place of refuge for 2,000 years, its cliffs...
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Syria rebels ‘seize Christian town Maalula’
Syrian rebels, including jihadists, have taken control of the historic Christian town of Maalula, north of Damascus, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights watchdog and a resident said on Sunday....
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Vatican: 100,000 attend Syria peace vigil
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Tens of thousands of people filled St. Peter’s Square for a four-hour Syria peace vigil late Saturday, answering Pope Francis’ call for a grassroots cry for peace that was echoed by...
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Syrian Christians heed Pope’s call to pray for peace
DAMASCUS (Reuters) – Hundreds of Syrian Christians gathered in Damascus on Saturday to pray for peace and protest against possible U.S. military intervention, responding to a call by Pope Francis for a...
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Civilians flee rebels re-taking Christian town of Maaloula in Syria civil war
Rebels led by al-Qa’ida-linked fighters gained control of a Christian town north-east of the capital, Damascus, Syrian activists said on Sunday, while government media continued to claim that regime...
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Christians flee Syria village that speaks the language of Jesus
Rebel groups, including a branch of al-Qaeda, have taken control of Maaloula, one of the few remaining villages where the language of Christ is still spoken, residents and activists reported. “Our …...
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Syrian army moves to retake Christian village
BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops launched an offensive Monday against rebel-held positions on hills overlooking a mainly Christian village as they moved to regain control of the ancient community near the...
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Some see biblical visions of doom in Syria trouble
Some are pointing to Old Testament passages that predict the destruction of Damascus and a civil war in Egypt., MELBOURNE, Fla. — The deadly violence percolating half a world away in Syria and the...
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Egypt bans mosque preachers in crackdown on Islamists
CAIRO- Egyptian authorities will bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics from preaching in mosques in the latest move against sympathizers of deposed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi, the minister of religious...
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Syria crisis: Assad agrees to Russian proposal to place chemical weapons...
The Syrian government has agreed to proposals put forward by Russia that it place its entire chemical weapons stockpile under international control, according to reports from the independent Russian...
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Syria: Obama gives Assad a chance of diplomatic solution – but insists...
President Barack Obama told the American public last night that he had asked the US Congress to pause before voting on whether to back military strikes against Syria to allow the United States,...
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Does the Bible Predict the Destruction of Syria?
Over the last few weeks, I have been asked many times if I believe that the prophecy recorded in Isaiah 17 refers to Syria today, since the text predicts the total destruction of Damascus, the ancient...
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Syria and Obama’s Humiliating Defeat
When presidents fail, it is a public spectacle. In his rush into unprovoked war against Syria, President Obama overplayed his hand. Shortly before he appeared on television on Wednesday, “Obama’s...
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Syrian rebels reject deal to strip regime of chemical weapons
Russians have taught the Americans – particularly Obama – an unforgettable lesson, commentator for Arabic newspaper writes. Syrian rebels reject deal to strip regime of chemical weaponsFiled under:...
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Putin warns US against carrying out military strike on Syria
Russian leader pans idea of American exceptionalism in NYT op-ed. Putin warns US against carrying out military strike on Syria Filed under: 1.RELIGION, 2.WORLD NEWS, Nations & Politics, Society...
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Russia Rising
Following up on its proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons stockpiles under international control for inspection and destruction, Russia submitted its plan to implement this proposal to the United...
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As Obama Pauses Action, Putin Takes Center Stage
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin has been many things to President Obama: a partner at times, an irritant more often, the host of the elusive Edward J. Snowden and “the bored kid in the back of the...
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Crisis in Syria Fulfilling End Times Prophecy?
The crisis in Syria has some people looking at end-times biblical prophecies.CSome Christians point to the Old Testament prophet Isaiah, who wrote about the fall of Damascus. Florida Today reports that...
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Inside the Battle for Syria’s Ancient Christian Village (Video)
ICC Note: The war in Syria has produced numerous disturbing images over the past two-plus years. In the past week, the attack on the ancient Christian village of Maaloula has provided a snapshot of the...
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No Substitute for Victory: The Right Path to Peace for Israel
“Wars end when one side wins,” Middle East scholar Daniel Pipes trenchantly observed at a September 10, 2013, panel at Washington, DC’s National Press Club. Pipes addressed the topic “Twenty Years...
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Muslims Wish Jews a Happy Yom Kippur with Rocks, Bricks and Automatic Weapons
The story of Joseph’s Tomb is a microcosm of the failures of appeasement. The tomb of the biblical Joseph is a specifically Jewish site. Muslims, who claim Joseph, along with most Jewish biblical...
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Putin’s Syrian policy wins Chinese, Iranian approval
Chinese and Iranian delegates to the Bishbek Summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization-SCO issued statements Friday pledging support for the diplomatic steps taken to avert a further decline in...
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Syria chemical weapons deal brings chance at peace
A diplomatic breakthrough Saturday on securing and destroying Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile averted the threat of U.S. military action for the moment and could swing momentum toward ending a...
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Syrian minister calls chemical weapons deal a Russian-won ‘victory’ over U.S.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syria’s Minister for National Reconciliation said on Sunday that the chemical weapons agreement between Russia and the United States was a “victory” for Damascus, won by its Russian...
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France, UK, US agree on Syria push at UN
France, Britain and the United States agreed at three-way Paris talks on Monday to seek a “strong and robust” UN resolution that sets precise and binding deadlines on removal of chemical weapons, the...
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How the United States, Russia arrived at deal on Syria’s chemical weapons
By midday Friday in Geneva, progress had been made in near round-the-clock meetings between U.S. and Russian negotiators and experts on Syria’s chemical weapons, but it was not enough. Although the...
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Syria Churches, Monasteries Abandoned in Small Christian Town Following Rebel...
ICC Note: The small town of Maaloula has become emblematic of the threat faced by Syria’s Christian community. The small town is home to a heritage of Christianity that dates back hundreds and hundreds...
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Russia says U.N. report on Syria attack biased
MOSCOW/BEIRUT (Reuters) – Russia denounced U.N. investigators’ findings on a poison gas attack in Syria as preconceived and tainted by politics on Wednesday, stepping up its criticism of a report...
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Syrian Opposition Elects Muslim Brotherhood Prime Minister
The media is spinning Ahmad Tomeh’s selection (he ran unopposed) as Prime Minister. He’s being described as a dentist, a humble man and a moderate consensus figure. When his Islamism is mentioned,...
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At least 15 countries have agreed to take up Syrian refugees
At least fifteen countries have agreed to set up special quotas for Syrian refugees, the New York Times quoted the head of the UN refugee agency as saying on Tuesday.The countries offered to help...
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‘Israel Will Stand Alone’: Netanyahu’s UN Speech Highlights Danger of U.S....
Full text Netanyahu’s 2013 speech to the UN General Assembly By Bridget Johnson: If there was any question about America’s current leadership role in the world, it was answered at the United...
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The Arab Spring Is Dead
The Arab Spring was born in Tunisia. It died in Tunisia. Its funeral was attended by the same violent flag-waving protests as its birth. The ruling Islamist Ennahda party has agreed to step down....
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UN: One Syrian Refugee Created Every 15 Seconds
More than 2 million Syrians are now refugees in neighboring countries. Five million are internally displaced as chemical weapons inspectors continue securing work sites. UN: One Syrian Refugee...
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Bulgaria in crisis as Syrians flow in from Turkey, some fear terrorists are...
Reblogged from Refugee Resettlement Watch: I’ve been receiving alerts (dozens of them) about the refugee crisis in Bulgaria for weeks now, sorry I didn’t get to the story sooner. A few days ago a...
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Dozens killed as Egyptian Islamists protest on holiday
At least 34 people were killed when supporters of toppled President Mohamed Morsi used the revered anniversary of Egypt’s last war with Israel to stage one of their biggest protests since the...
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International monitors begin to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons equipment
BEIRUT — Personnel overseen by a team of international monitors took blowtorches and high-speed saws to Syria’s chemical weapons equipment Sunday, the first step on the road to dismantling what is...
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Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission
BEIRUT (Reuters) – International experts began overseeing the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal on Sunday, said an official from the mission that has averted a U.S. strike but could rob...
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Egypt: At least 51 people dead on 40th anniversary of Arab-Israeli war
At least 51 people have been killed and 94 wounded after clashes erupted across Egypt between security forces and supporters of the ousted President Mohammed Morsi. The fighting took place exactly 40...
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“The Israeli Factor” in the Syrian War Unveiled: “The US-Israel Plan A”
More than two and a half years on, Israel ’s purported neutrality in the Syrian conflict and the United State ’s fanfare rhetoric urging a “regime change” in Damascus were abruptly cut short to unveil...
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Syrian refugees in Turkey surpass 600,000
The number of Syrian refugees in Turkey has exceeded 600,000 and more than 400,000 of them are living outside the refugee camps set up mainly in Turkish border cities, the Turkish disaster management...
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UN: Refugee numbers at highest in 19 years
Migrant escape routes in focus as thousands risk their lives to flee war, unrest and poverty and reach distant shores. UN: Refugee numbers at highest in 19 yearsFiled under: 2.WORLD NEWS, Nations...
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Iraq Today: America’s Genocidal Legacy
America came to Iraq to stay. Contingents of US forces remain. America’s embassy cost over a billion dollars to build. It’s the world’s largest. It’s inside Baghdad’s Green Zone. It includes 21...
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Iranians cry ‘death to America’ in huge rally
Tens of thousands rally outside old US embassy site in Tehran to mark the 34th anniversary of the US embassy siege. Iranians cry ‘death to America’ in huge rallyFiled under: 1.RELIGION, 2.WORLD...
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