Sister Antoinette Zaidan, a Maronite nun, was brutally raped and strangled while on her way home to her convent by Islamic militants, probably connected to the radical Al-Takfir Wal- hijra wing, near Hadeth, Lebanon, January 3rd, 1999. (Christian Solidarity, via the English Churchman).

Nineteen Coptic Christians and one priest were killed during Islamic-driven, anti-Christian riots in El-Kosheh, Egypt, on January 1st 2000. (Christian Solidarity, via the English Churchman).

Salwa Yazbek and her pregnant daughter-in-law, Sarah Yazbek, were beheaded and dismembered, by the Islamist group Al-Takfir Wal Higra, in the village of Kfar Abou, Lebanon, January 3rd, 2000.

Deacon Chafiq Rajha of the Maronite Church of St. George in Dekuwane, Lebanon were killed in the bombing of his church on November 3rd, 1999. Several parishioners were injured in the attack by Hizbollah militants. (Christian Solidarity, via the English Churchman).