By Raymond Ibrahim While the world fixates on the conflict between Israel and Hamas—and while most mainstream media demonize Israel for trying to survive amid a sea of Arab-Islamic hostility—similar or worse tragedies continue to go virtually ignored. One of the most ancient Christian communities in the world, that of Iraq—which already had been decimated…
By John Pontifex and Oliver Maksan The Church in Iraq is on the brink of disappearing into obscurity, according to the country’s leading bishop, who says the migration of Christians has shot up. Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako of Baghdad described how the rate of Christians leaving Iraq was growing and went on…
By Leslie Scanlon The exodus from the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) continues, as congregations seeking a more conservative home leave for other denominations. Some are small congregations ― 20 or 30 members ― and some are among the largest and wealthiest churches in the PC(USA). The departures, mostly for the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and ECO: A…
Barnabas Fund Barnabas Fund is expanding its Exodus campaign to rescue another 3,400 Christians from Sudan. The country has become increasingly hostile to Southern Sudanese, who are largely Christian, since South Sudan gained independence in 2011. The expansion of the Exodus campaign has been made possible by the generosity of donations from supporters but Barnabas…
By Raymond Ibrahim A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other. We are reliving the true history of how the Islamic world, much of which prior to the Islamic conquests was almost entirely Christian, came into being. The U.S….
By Christian Today The World Evangelical Alliance’s human rights ambassador has warned that Christians are being “chased from their homes” in Syria. Dr Thomas Schirrmacher warned of a mass exodus of Christians from Syria similar to that experienced in Iraq following the 2003 US-led invasion. A decade ago, there were an estimated 1.5 million Christians…