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Barnabas provides over £600,000 to help Christian families

As the Syrian government agrees to allow aid agencies into the areas worst affected by the conflict, Barnabas Aid is continuing to get help to many of the neediest Christians.

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This church-run orphanage was severely damaged in the violence

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Convert from Islam to Christianity slaughtered by Muslims

Video footage of a convert from Islam to Christianity being slaughtered by Muslims has been shown on Egyptian TV in an alarming depiction of the threat posed to religious freedom after the Arab Spring.

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Teenage Christian girl gang-raped in ; police side with attackers

A 13-year-old Christian girl was gang-raped in Pakistan and members of her family beaten up, causing a pregnant aunt to lose her babies.

Christian women and girls in Pakistan are vulnerable to attack

Christian women and girls in are extremely vulnerable to attack

Car bomb outside churches kills 18 people in Northern

A suicide car bomber killed at least 18 people and injured more than 40 others in an attack on two churches in Bauchi state, Northern Nigeria, on Sunday 3 June.

The attack happened in Bauchi, Northern Nigeria

The attack happened in Bauchi, Northern .
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“Terror” campaign to intimidate Christian voters in Egyptian elections

Egyptian Christians are said to be victims of a "terror and intimidation" campaign intended to prevent them from voting for the Muslim Brotherhood's rival in the presidential run-off.

Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohammed Morsi
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Islamist separatists torch churches in violent riots in Zanzibar

Supporters of a separatist Islamist movement attacked churches and other Christian property in violent riots in Zanzibar.

The riots broke out in the capital, Stone Town
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Barnabas persecution update 8 June 2012

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