This Christmas, Remember Imprisoned Pastor Andrew Brunson
Pastor Andrew Brunson will be spending his second Christmas in a Turkish jail, unfairly held by the Erdogan government on...
Christianity
Germany Charges Palestinian With Murder of Christians Over Temple Mount Tensions
Germany’s federal prosecution charged a Palestinian man on Friday with murder and six counts of attempted murder. Ahmad A., 26, wanted “to kill as many German nationals...
Op-eds
Perfect Partners
When he won the election, Donald Trump—along with his national security adviser Michael Flynn, his all-purpose counselor Stephen Bannon, and, perhaps, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner—wa...
Op-eds
Turkey Trumps Up the Charges against the Imprisoned U.S. Pastor
Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan today issued an emergency decree giving himself the authority to trade foreign citizens held in Tu...
Policy Briefs
Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
Op-eds
Preaching violence from the pulpit
Imagine if a priest, minister or rabbi were to call for Muslims to be annihilated. It would be a scandal and it would spark a nation-wide controversy over Islamophobia, hate speech and incitement...
Op-eds
Is it wrong to prefer the West to the rest?
On various occasions and beginning decades before he was elected president, Ronald Reagan warned that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” He understood, and h...
Op-eds
Iran’s Religious War against the Baha’i
May 14 marked the ninth anniversary of Iran’s imprisonment of seven Baha’i leaders for the crime of practicing their...
Policy Briefs
Faithless
“I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.” So said President George W. Bush in 2004. Leave for another day the debate over whether such a belief is...
Op-eds
German State Head Gives BDS Bethlehem Hate Preacher Nearly $32,000
The Green Party president of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, personally delivered in late March a check for €30,000 ($32,000) to a Lutheran pastor in the West Bank who advocate...
Op-eds
Letting freedom fade
Whatever happened to Charlie Hebdo? For years, the French satirical magazine threw spit balls at polite society. Its writers and cartoonists particularly delighted in ridiculing religions and pie...
Op-eds
Anti-BDS Bill Passes in Texas Senate
Texas has been a hotbed of anti-BDS activity in recent days, with the passage of a bill in the Senate on Wednesday that will bar state contracts and investment in companies that boycott Israel, a...
Op-eds
What went wrong in Pakistan
Pakistan was meant to be a model, an example for other nations to emulate. It was founded after World War II, as the sun was set...
Op-eds
Iran arrests two Catholics in new wave of brutality against Christians
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) arrested two Christians – a mother and her son – in late February as part of a brutal crackdown on Catholicism in the countr...
Op-eds
The kingdom, the power and the petroleum
Saudi Arabia is changing. When government officials here tell you that, you take it with an oversized grain of salt. But when Saudi human rights activists say the same, you pay attenti...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Latest Scapegoats: Christians
Turkish police on October 7 detained the American pastor Andrew Brunson and his wife Norine – residents of Turkey for the last twenty years – for “activities against national se...
Op-eds
Turkey’s Latest Scapegoats: Christians
Turkish police on October 7 detained...
Policy Briefs
The war against history
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” This, as you may recall, was the slogan of the totalitarian state imagined by Georg...
Op-eds
Presiding over Chaos
On October 31, the Lebanese parliament elected Michel Aoun president, ending a two-and-a-half-year stalemate during which the country had no head of state. The presidency is reserved for the coun...