By Stoyan Zaimov The World Evangelical Alliance said it is “extremely disappointed” that the major U.N. talks on the Syrian civil war failed to make any significant progress last week, and called on an immediate end to the violence as scores of people continue dying. “We are extremely disappointed that very little progress was made…
By Alyssa Farah WASHINGTON – The first delegation of Syrian Christian church leaders to visit the U.S. since civil war broke out in March 2011 spoke Monday (Jan. 27) at the Heritage Foundation, issuing a stunning warning that the nation’s Christian population could vanish. “Today we are faced with a potential extinction of the church,”…
By Lisa Daftari The wife of the Iranian-American pastor held in Iran, along with U.S. attorneys representing the family, have traveled to Geneva and will present his case to the United Nations Human Rights Council Monday, urging the organization to push harder for the pastor’s immediate release. Saeed Abedini, the 33-year-old Idaho resident serving an…
By Michael Horton With many others I have been anticipating the publication of Scott Manetsch’s Calvin’s Company of Pastors. It’s not quite what I expected—that is, a more thorough update to Phillip Hughes’s The Register of the Company of Pastors of Geneva in the Time of Calvin (1966). We needed something like that, even if…