Anti-Christian sentiment
Christian Persecution in Nigeria Divides Pastors
Last October, the Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, regional chairman of the Church of Christ in Nations denomination in Nigeria’s Plateau State, stood in front of a mass grave in Rachas, Nigeria, and begged those...
Op-eds
The Right Target in Addressing Anti-Christian Violence in Nigeria
In May, American and Nigerian forces collaborated to eliminate Abu Musab al-Minuki, a leader in ISIS and its Nigerian affiliate, Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP). Killing al-Minuki...
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Iraq’s New Christian Patriarch Inherits a Vanishing Flock
On its surface, Polis III Nona’s installation ceremony bore all the hallmarks of a thriving church. The new patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Iraq’s largest Christian denomination,...
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Why Russia Is Trying to Influence Armenia’s Elections
Moscow feels threatened by Armenia’s foreign policy pivot toward Europe and the United States.
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Why Christian persecution is Trump’s new foreign policy roadmap
During his first term, President Donald Trump made fighting Christian persecution around the world a foreign policy priority. In his second term, it has become something more than that. The...
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Washington Killed an ISIS Commander in Nigeria, but Has More to Do in West Africa
Nigeria’s Christians are among the most persecuted in the world. They face threats from Muslim Fulani herdsmen who have raided villages and killed hundreds of believers. They also face threats from terror...
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U.S. Launches Effort To Address Christian Persecution in Nigeria
The Trump administration has launched an effort to help protect Nigerian Christians. In response to escalating attacks by armed Islamists, Washington established a joint working group to offer American...
Policy Briefs
Scapegoats of Wrath, Subjects of Benevolence: Turkey’s Minorities Under Erdoğan
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Iran’s forgotten persecuted Christian minority
Iranian Christians are in dire straits in the Islamic Republic because of a new wave of regime repression that has largely not registered in the media due to the country’s economic free fal...
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German Jews Cut Ties With Local Turkish Group Due to Antisemitism
The Jewish community in the city of Mannheim broke off talks and exchanges with the Turkish Ditib religious association because its headquarters in Ankara spreads antisemitism, the Mannheimer Mor...
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Calls To End Iranian Center’s German City Contract Due To Israel Hate
A leading politician from the city of Hamburg urged on Monday the cancellation of the city’s contract with an Iranian-regime controlled institution because it participates in the annual al-...
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Why Isn’t Saudi Arabia On Trump’s List Of Banned Muslim Countries?
Why doesn’t President Trump’s executive order include Saudi Arabia, the country of origin of 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11? And why does the US State...
Op-eds
Muslims in America
One of the most striking features of the British cemetery at Gallipoli is the attention given to honoring the diversity of the dead. Final farewells from loved ones carved upon stone plaques line...
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Protecting the World’s Christians
Co-authored by Danny Eisen As the winter holidays wind down for another year, Canadians can reflect on the blessing of their democracy, which enables its citizens to celebrate o...
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Analysis: What Do Mideast Christians Face in ’13?
Growing persecution of Middle Eastern Christians and holy sites by radical Islamists in the Middle East and Africa in 2012 resulted in large numbers of murders, bombings, imprisonments, church cl...
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Obama’s ‘Alert Observation’ of Anti-Christian Violence Must End
As Nina Shea discussed below, Pakistani authorities have incarcerated a...
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Iran’s War on Religious Freedom
The Iranian regime is in the news again over an alleged terrorist plot on American soil. Back in Iran, the regime's brutality to its own people continues. As Western governments consider how...
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The Myths of Oslo
The more I look at the Oslo massacre, the more I am struck by how archaic it all is. The killer fancies himself a noble defender of a Western world that no longer exists, and has not existed, rea...
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Selling Out Moderate Islam
Washington's misbegotten campaign to be loved in the Middle East.