A priest is slaughtered at Mass in rural France. This is what life is like for Christians in the Middle East By Damian Thompson, Catholic Herald. An 85-year-old priest has had his throat cut by an Islamic fanatic while saying Mass in a church in Normandy. For people in the West, this is a scene of almost…
Juliana Taimoorazy, an Assyrian Christian and Founding President of the Iraqi Christians Relief Council, joined The Reconnect on Tuesday to update us on the situation in the Middle East and the persecuted Church. Why should we care? Earlier this year, the Obama Administration finally recognized the fact that ISIS is committing genocide through crucifixion, beheading,…
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post. The United States government is processing an unbelievably low number of Christian refugees despite the ongoing genocide at the hands of the Islamic State terror group in Iraq and Syria, the American Center for Law and Justice reports. The conservative law group cited numbers from the Refugee Processing Center, noting that…
A candidate standing for co-moderator of the 222nd General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) has written a blog in the wake of Sunday morning’s act of terrorism, equating evangelicals in the PCUSA with the Muslim extremism seen in Orlando attack. Early Sunday morning, 29-year-old Omar Mateen walked inside of the gay nightclub Pulse and began…
By Joe Carter, The Gospel Coalition. In the dark hours of this Sunday morning some 50 people were killed and another 53 were injured in a terror attack in gay nightclub in Orlando. President Obama has called it an “act of terror and an act of hate,” and it’s being described as the most deadly…
By Carey Lodge, Christian Today. News broke on Wednesday that ISIS militants in Iraq have destroyed another ancient temple; that of Nabu in the Assyrian city of Nimrud. “Compared to imagery collected 12 January 2016, we observe extensive damage to the main entrance of what is known as Nabu Temple,” UNITAR, the UN Training and…
The Islamic State Can’t Stop Christ So They Destroy Those Who Reflect His Image By Faith J. H. McDonnell, Patheos. They hate the Image reflected in the mirrors. But even they, with their knives and guns and bombs, and their crucifixions and abductions, and their rape and enslavement, and their marking of houses with threats, forcing thousands to flee, are powerless…
A Christian congregation in Syria is defying the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) by continuing to hold church services amidst the threat of violence and death. By Lorraine Caballero, Christian Daily. While many Christians fled Syria after ISIS razed the war-torn region, Pastor Edward Awabdeh and his congregation stayed and supported each other…
By Tom Batchelor, The Express. Christians fear extinction in Iraq after years of persecution at the hands of Islamist factions and amid a threat of further attacks following the latest Pakistan park bombing. After a weekend of religious ceremonies to mark Easter, a senior Christian leader has issued a fresh warning about the threat his faith…
By the Pakistan correspondent at Morning Star News. A deadly suicide bombing in a public park here marred Easter celebrations in Pakistan on Sunday evening (March 27), as an Islamic extremist group targeted Christians. At least 70 people have been reported dead, most of them women and children, while more than 350 others were seriously injured…