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Help us inform other podcast listeners by subscribing to the Issues et cetera podcast with YouTube, Spotify, and Apple. Violence Against Christians, according to several Roman Catholic news websites.

One headline were Christians targeted in Syria's deadly crackdown between March 6 and 10.

Government crackdowns on supporters of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime

resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,000 civilians,

most of them from the Alawite religious minority,

sparking a debate over whether Christians were deliberately targeted.

Welcome back to Issues Cedar. I'm Todd Wilkin, joining us to talk about media coverage of the

killing of Christians in Syria and Nigeria. Terry Mattingly, he's Senior Fellow on Communications

and Culture at St. Constantine College in Houston, Texas. He writes Rational Sheep, a substack newsletter on

faith, family, and mass media. He's author of the National On Religion column for the Andrews

McMill Universal Syndicate. For two decades, he led the getreligion.org website, and he joins us

from New Zealand. Terry, welcome.

Glad to be here. We have this story of violence against Christians.

Why is it that we have another religion story in this form being covered largely by conservative

and religious media?

Yeah, it's an old story. This is something that's almost painful that you and I

have to keep talking to our listeners about over and over, but it's very important. And I can also tell you,

there is probably no subject that I hear from readers and listeners about more than this one.

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