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Lebanese Patriarch: Syrian #refugees should remain in #syria
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19361

The head of #Lebanon's Maronite Christian Church suggested on Wednesday that Syrian refugees should be housed in camps inside Syria. The United Nations has registered 1 million refugees in Lebanon since the conflict began three years ago, the highest concentration of refugees worldwide. They are housed in homes and local communities rather than refugee camps. Cardinal #Beshara_al-Rai, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, told a news conference in Geneva that the presence of so many Syrians represented a huge economic, social, political and security burden for Lebanon. read more

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Photographs from Detroit: Survival, renewal and urban farming
▻http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/10/24/detroit-photos-urban-farming-community-renewal/6451

Erica Yoon visited Detroit in October 2012 to investigate urban gardening initiatives for a project as a graduate student in photojournalism at Ohio University. The idea of urban farms popping up amid the chaos in Detroit seemed to be a great way to visualize how people were attempting to weather the economic storm there. She spent ten days meeting people, photographing and trying to parse what she’d read about Detroit from what she was hearing from people on the ground.

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#Egypt's Copts mourn victims of #church_attack
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypts-copts-mourn-victims-church-attack

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Egyptian women mourn four victims of a shooting at the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo on October 21, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Khaled Desouki)

Thousands turned out Monday for the funeral of four Copts gunned down outside a church, in the first attack on Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president. Priests carrying large wooden crosses made their way into the packed Church of the Virgin in Cairo’s working class neighborhood of (...)

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#Egypt police hunt down gunmen in deadly Church attack
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/egypt-police-hunt-down-gunmen-deadly-church-attack

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Egyptians gather around blood stains at the entrance of the Virgin Mary Coptic Christian church in Cairo after gunmen on a motorbike shot dead three people late on October 20, 2013. (Photo: AFP / STR)

Police on Monday searched for a gunman who killed three people at a church wedding, in the first attack targeting Christians in Cairo since the ouster of Egypt’s Islamist president. An eight-year-old girl was among those killed at the Church of the Virgin in Cairo’s (...)

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Egypt policeman sentenced to 15 years for torture

An Egyptian court has sentenced a policeman to 15 years imprisonment for manslaughter for torturing an ultraconservative Salafi Muslim to death.

The Alexandria Criminal Court found Osama el-Kounayassi guilty of using torture to extract confessions from the man, suspected of involvement in a suicide bombing at a Coptic Christian church over two years ago. El-Kounayassi had earlier won a retrial after another court found him guilty and sentenced him to life imprisonment in absentia.

▻http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2013/04/16/egypt-policeman-sentenced-to-15-years-for-torture

Rappel : C’est notamment la mort de Khaled Saïd dans des circonstances similaires qui avait été l’élément déclencheur de la révolution ▻https://www.google.com/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=khaled+said&oq=khaled+said&gs_l=hp.3..0l4.23

#violence #Egypt