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February 14, 2025 | Mariam Wahba

The Problem with Christian Martyrs

Ten years ago, 21 Coptic Christians were given a choice by ISIS: renounce their faith or die. They chose the sword. Their sacrifice wasn’t passive - it was a powerful testimony to unwavering faith.

June 7, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

The cries of Byai Phu

Everyone, it seems, has heard of Rafah, but few people know about what is happening in Burma, the East Asian country renamed “Myanmar” following a military coup in 1989.

April 11, 2024 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Danger knocking on the door of Lebanon’s Christians once again

The Christians of Lebanon find themselves defenseless against the existential threat that is coming their way from Islamist Iran and its Hezbollah militia. This week, Pascal Sleiman, a father of three...

April 10, 2023 | Enia Krivine, Shannon Walsh

Members of the Clergy Politicize Holy Week in the Holy Land

Christians are flourishing in Israel, yet before Easter, some members of the clergy exploited the period of heightened religious emotion to level false accusations of systemic oppression against Israel. Meanwhile, others spread conspiracy theories that mirror the blood libel sermons taught about the Jews during Holy Week in previous centuries.

May 11, 2020 | Bradley Bowman, Mikhael Smits 

Beijing Hones and Exports Religious Oppression

Utilizing cutting-edge technology, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is perfecting the religious oppression of millions at home and exporting the same capabilities abroad. The CCP’s ongoing abuse...

January 14, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian authorities bulldozed grave of executed Christian pastor

The grave of the Rev. Hossein Soodmand, the only Iranian pastor confirmed to have been formally sentenced for quitting Islam and then executed by Iran’s regime, was bulldozed in early December. Article18,...

January 4, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Official Deletes Antisemitic Tweet Equating Jesus with the Palestinians

The director of Germany’s Near and Middle East department at the foreign ministry deleted a tweet widely criticized as antisemitic because it compared the repression of Jesus to the Palestinians.

November 14, 2018 | Clifford D. May |

Bring Asia Bibi to America

She lives in an unfree and intolerant nation, and her life is in imminent danger.

March 14, 2018 | Clifford D. May

A pope and a grand imam

Pope Tawadros II had planned to spend last week on retreat in a monastery near Alexandria. But then Mohammed bin Salman, on a three-day visit to Egypt, asked to see him. The Saudi Crown...

February 21, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Pro-BDS Pastor and German Green Party Figure Speaks at Nazi Event

Friedrich Bode, a Protestant pastor and co-founder of the Green Party branch in Bremen, Germany, delivered a talk at a neo-Nazi party event in Karlshöfe, Lower Saxony, on Saturday....

April 17, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

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...

October 28, 2016 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

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...

September 15, 2015 | Michael Ledeen

Temple Mount Violence Yet Again

There were clashes on the Jerusalem Temple Mount in the runup to Rosh Hashanah, and I blame Moshe Dayan. He was the prematurely politically correct Israeli Defense Minister who, in 1967, couldn&r...

February 27, 2015 | Reuel Marc Gerecht

Violent Extremist vs. Holy Warrior

Is Barack Hussein Obama wrong to avoid appending “Islamic,” “Muslim,” “Islamist,” or even “jihadist” to the terrorism that has struck the West with...

December 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Religious Cleansing of Middle East Christians

The fate of struggling Christians in Muslim-majority countries in the Islamic heartland has shifted from persecution to an existential struggle. Anti-Christian violence in 2014 saw...

October 14, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: If Iran Can’t Hold Human Rights Pledges, How Can it Abide by Nuke Deal?

BERLIN – The award of this week’s Nobel Peace Prize to Taliban victim...

May 30, 2014 | Tony Badran

Semitic Semantics

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Pope Francis engaged in a brief, cordial exchange over the language spoken by Jesus. “Jesus was here, in this land,” Netanyahu...

March 7, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Baleful Peace Process

To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...

January 2, 2014 | Clifford D. May |

Jesus of Palestine?

The members of the American Studies Association care deeply about historical truth, which is why they protested so strenuously when, over Christmas, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas...

July 18, 2013 | Clifford D. May

The New Muslim Generation

A month ago, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki was asked whether the Taliba...