By Mateen Elass, from his personal blog. While Muslims in the West often emphasize their kinship with Christians (the Qur’an claims we believe in the same God, and trace our lineage, spiritually at least, back to the same forefather Abraham), at the same time Muslims in other parts of the world are targeting Christians for…
By Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition. Last week the State Department released its International Religious Freedom Report for 2014. A major concern addressed in this year’s report is the violent opposition to religious freedom, including the persecution of Christians. Here are nine things you should know about the persecution being faced by our brothers and…
Written by the Middle East Correspondent for Morning Star News. The terrorist group Islamic State (IS) late last month killed three Assyrian Christians, presumably in Syria, according to an execution video released Wednesday (Oct. 7). In the video, the group threatened to kill some 200 other Christians in Syria unless it receives a ransom of…
By Chloe Valdary, The Wall Street Journal. In 1975, as desperate Vietnamese sought to escape Communist rule, the U.S. embarked on what remains one of the greatest humanitarian rescue missions in history. Over the span of several weeks, Operation Frequent Wind, Operation Babylift and other missions by air or on sea saved and resettled tens…
By Frank R. Wolf, The Washington Examiner. Outside of the Dachau concentration camp there is a sign written in five languages — Hebrew, English, French, German and Russian — saying “never again.” Following the unfathomable horrors of the Holocaust, the world rallied around a new word for a crime that has plagued human history. Following…
By Margie Fenelon, the National Catholic Register. ISIS destroyed another ancient Christian holy site last week. The latest casualty in their 26-year-long campaign to wipe Christianity from the face of the earth was the Mar Elian monastery in the town of Qaryatain near Homs, Syria. They first kidnapped 230 people—including dozens of Christian families—after taking…
By Janelle P., Open Doors field report. Open Doors estimates that more than 12,500 Christians have been killed in religion related violence in northern Nigeria between 2006 and 2014. Boko Haram violence has claimed most of the lives. It is also estimated that Boko Haram related violence has displaced more than 500,000 Christians in northern…
By Robert R. Reilly, The Washington Post. Recently I saw a riveting new play, “My Report to the World: The Story of Jan Karski.” In 1943 Karski, a member of the Polish Catholic underground, was the first eyewitness to the Warsaw ghetto and a Nazi concentration camp to reach the U.S. He sought to convince…
By Carey Lodge, Christian Today. Around 250 Christians have been abducted by Islamic State in a key strategic town in the province of Homs, Syria, sources have told Christian Today. Founder of campaign group A Demand for Action (ADFA) Nuri Kino confirmed that those missing are all from the Syriac Orthodox or Syriac Catholic churches,…
By Lucinda Borkett-Jones, Christian Today. Despite the daily news of the persecution of Christians around the world by Islamist groups, there is another, lesser-known story of growing numbers of Muslims around the world who are turning to Christ as Lord. Missionary David Garrison’s book, A Wind in the House of Islam, charts this phenomenon, which he says…