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Worshippers are illuminated only by candlelight, looking at an open book.
Orthodox worshippers in Ethiopia.
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For more than 1, 400 years, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has coexisted with Muslim communities in a unique truce with only occasional tension between them. (This long- standing relationship traces back to

In mid-April, reports began to circulate that two significant places of worship had been demolished in Stepanakert, the capital located within the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Recent satellite imagery has since confirmed that

Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi
Mary Mohammadi
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Mary Mohammadi was initially arrested at the age of 19 after converting from Islam to Christianity at a house church meeting. The young Christian woman was subsequently imprisoned for six months in Tehran's Evin Prison. Following