By Carey Lodge, Christian Today. Christian persecution has dominated the news over the past year. From the escalating chaos in the Middle East to the crackdown on churches in China’s Zhejiang province, it’s been a terrible year for some of the world’s most persecuted minorities. “The level of persecution globally is at horrifying levels,” Dr…
What we in the West see as ancient history is contemporary day-to-day reality in the Middle East. “Today in history” matters today. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly voted in favor of Resolution 181, the plan for the partition of Palestine. That UN resolution ended the British Mandate adopted by the…
By Paul Seebeck, Presbyterians Today. Sometimes, I wake up in the middle of the night, thinking about them. About what they, the survivors of a brutal war in Syria, said when I first met them in 2014. “Tell everyone you know to stand with us against those who are profiting off war,” said one person….
By David D. Corey, First Things. In September of this year, Baylor University sponsored two lectures on the topic of religious persecution. The presenters were former congressman Frank Wolf (now the Jerry and Susie Wilson Chair of Religious Freedom at Baylor) and Princeton Professor Robert P. George, who currently serves as the Chair of the…
Christians Struggle to Maintain Legacy versus ISIS Decimated by 12 years of war in Iraq and Syria, Christians find refuge in Kurdistan and in a new militia. By Gedalyah Reback First Publish: 4/7/2015, 11:43 AM http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/193758# Amid the ISIS assault on Iraq, minorities have borne the brunt. One of those groups is Iraq’s Christians, who…
Everyone now knows the menacing Evil called ISIL or ISIS. Eighteen months ago they didn’t even “exist.” Six months ago they were a blip on the global terror-watch radar. One month ago, one man named Wolf started crying out. Congressman Frank Wolf who serves us all but who hails from the 10th District in Virginia,…