Posts Tagged: Middle East Christians
BBC’s ‘Today’ Program Implies Israel Persecutes Christians
As noted in the comments to a previous post and in numerous e-mails arriving in the BBC Watch inbox, on Friday, November 15, 2013, the...
BBC Whitewashes Christian Persecution
While it is no secret that the so-called mainstream media habitually fails to report on the international phenomenon of Christian persecution, few are aware that...
Daily Beast Exploits Christian Persecution to Demonize Israel
What's worse than the silence of Western Christians concerning the Muslim persecution of their coreligionists in the Islamic world? Answer: Cynically exploiting that persecution for...
Anti-Christian Violence Spurs CUFI Support of Bill to Create U.S. Envoy for Religious Minorities
JNS.org - In response to the rising tide of global anti-Christian violence, Christians United for Israel (CUFI) is supporting H.R.301, legislation that would direct...
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 ...
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...
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...
Catholic Church: Syrian Christians Should Remain in the Region
The head of the Vatican's international humanitarian aid organization, Cardinal Robert Sarah, traveled to Jordan this week to discuss relief options. Cardinal Sarah, 67, a possible...
The OIC Needs to Show It’s Serious About Human Rights
On January 21, the Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) placed a half-page ad in The New York Times...
Study: Less Than 1 Percent of World’s Christians Live in Their Religion’s Birthplace
Despite their religion's origins in the Middle East, a miniscule percentage of Christians remain in that region, a recent survey from the Pew Forum on...
Victimization of Egypt’s Christians Worse After Revolution
While some are aware that the Christians of war-torn Syria and Iraq are regularly abducted and held for large ransoms by Western-sponsored "freedom...
Is Bigotry Compatible with the Huffington Post?
Author's note: This piece, a response to a factually inaccurate and bigoted op-ed published by the Huffington Post, was originally submitted to that website,...
