Posts Tagged: MENA Christians
Shias: The Arab Spring’s Latest Victims
The U.S.-sponsored "Arab Spring" continues to expose itself as a Sunni supremacist takeover. While the indicators are many—from the al-Qaeda Benghazi consulate attack...
Ira Forman Appointed State Department Anti-Semitism Envoy
JTA - Ira Forman, who led President Obama's reelection campaign in the Jewish community, was appointed as the State Department's envoy to combat...
State Department Report Finds Rise in Anti-Semitism, Persecution of Christian Minorities
The newly released International Religious Freedom Report for 2012 by the U.S. State Department study found an increase in anti-Semitism as well as persecution of...
Islamic Forced Conversions – Past and Present
The lost history of Christians forced to convert to Islam—or die—is reemerging, figuratively and literally. According to the BBC: "Pope Francis has proclaimed...
The Mass Exodus of Christians From the Muslim World
A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the ...
CBS, Breaking Faith With Its Viewers One Day at a Time
"You can also talk about the weather. If the weather is not good, the cause is the occupation." - Father...
Easter Celebrated by Increasingly Persecuted Middle East Orthodox Christians
The Middle East's Orthodox Christians, who are facing growing persecution and uncertainty over their future, celebrated the Easter holiday on Sunday. In Egypt, Pope Tawadros II...
Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church
Christians throughout the Islamic world are under attack. Unlike Muslim attacks on Christians, which are regularly confused with a myriad of social factors,...
Massachusetts Town Becomes Refuge for Egyptian Christians
A small Massachusetts town has become a growing refuge for Egyptian Christians fleeing persecution in their homeland. Milford, located approximately 40 miles from Boston, has been...
Does Coptic Christian Persecution Under Morsi Signal Egypt’s Collapse?
In an unprecedented move, the head of Egypt's 2,000-year-old Coptic Christian Church, Pope Tawadros II, recently slammed Islamist President Mohamed Morsi for what he called a weak...
Muslim Persecution of Christians: January, 2013
This article was originally published by the Gatestone Institute. The 2013 year began with reports indicating that wherever Christians live side by side with...
Obama to Highlight Plight of Mideast Christians on Visit
U.S. President Barack Obama intends to highlight the plight of Middle East Christians during his upcoming trip to the region. "It's been a very difficult series...
Mass Arrest and Torture of Christians in Libya
Coptic Christian Church, the St. Bishoy Monastery, located between Cairo and Alexandria. More than 8 million Coptic Christians live in Egypt....
Death for Preaching Christ in ‘Liberated’ Libya
Four foreign Christians—including one who holds American-Swedish citizenship—were arrested days ago in Libya. According to the Guardian, their crime is arousing "suspicion of being missionaries and...
