By Robert Nicholson, The Philos Project. I met Ban and her children on a Friday night deep inside the sprawling brown metropolis of Amman. It was quiet as we picked our way through the stone alley beside her building, descending a narrow flight of stairs to her apartment that overlooked a glittering green mosque. Ban had been living…
By Vanessa Rodriguez , Christian Examiner. Targeted threats to wipe out Christianity in the Middle East are successfully eliminating the faith from its birthplace. Islamic extremism is the main source of hostility in nations where the most severe persecution is seen, according to an annual World Watch List, released earlier this year by the non-profit organization Open Door….
By Faith McDonnell, Juicy Ecumenism. I had intended to write a different blog post today. It was to be an open call to Western Christians who have been inspired and blessed by the popular video that is a love letter of Christ’s forgiveness to ISIS. I intended to ask such Christians to demonstrate the same…
By Jayson Casper, Christianity Today. Once again, ISIS has orchestrated and filmed the dramatic mass killing of African Christians who refuse to deny their faith. This time, the approximately 28 men targeted by the Libya affiliate of the self-proclaimed Islamic State (also known as Daesh) were Ethiopian Christians. In February, the killing of 21 mostly…
By Lisa Daftari, FoxNews.com. Islamic State militants are demanding up to $30 million in ransom to release the hundreds of Christian hostages in Syria, according to an officer within the Assyrian leadership. In ongoing negotiations between ISIS terrorists and the Assyrian leadership to free the 250-300 Christians abducted by the militant group in February, ISIS is demanding…
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…
From the personal blog of Mateen Elass Much of the cruel barbarity in the religious world today is being perpetrated by self-confessed Muslims. Though many moderate Muslims are beginning to decry the atrocities of Boko Haram, the Taliban, ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra, AQIM, al-Shabaab, Hamas, Abu Sayyaf, al-Qaeda, etc., these movements continue to proclaim their Islamic bona fides,…
By Robert Barron, Real Clear Religion Last week, the attention of the world was riveted to a deserted beach in northern Libya, where a group of twenty one Coptic Christians were brutally beheaded by masked operatives of the ISIS movement. In the wake of the executions, ISIS released a gruesome video entitled “A Message in…
“They were put to death by stoning; they were sawed in two; they were killed by the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted and mistreated, the world was not worthy of them.” (Heb. 11:37–38) This is a very sad time in Egypt. We are in seven days of official mourning for…
Like you, I’ve heard what the President said at the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday. But did you hear what he didn’t say? Yes, speaking about the barbaric hideous murderous violence that man perpetrates against man, the President said: “Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our…