A member of the Scottish Parliament is calling on her fellow politicians to recognize that there is a growing anti-Catholic problem in the country and she is also urging them to draw out proposals to address these hate crimes.

Cairo has been shaken by another deadly attack that targeted a Coptic Christian bookshop and a church on Dec. 29, when a gunman went on a rampage and killed nine people before being shot.

Christians in the city of Basra in Iraq have reportedly been pushed to isolation amid the threats of extinction of non-Muslim minorities after the majority had failed to protect them from extremists in the last few years.