The Coptic Easter
In Celebration of the Coptic 2025 Holiday Season: Faith, History, and Heritage
Democracy, Faith, Freedom
Abraham Accords and Indonesia
The benefits of Indonesia in the Abraham Accords. By Daniel J. Samet, Atlantic Council
Muslim and Arab Voices Against Bigotry
Since October 7, many Jews have felt isolated and have reported feeling as if they have no allies in the Muslim and Arab worlds. This
Why Christians in Iraq are in profound danger?
What the Christian community in Iraq faces can only be defined as intense hatred and hostility. Since 2003, Christians in central and southern Iraq have been subjected to killing, abuse, kidnapping, discrimination, and forced displacement.
Chaldean patriarch withdraws from Baghdad headquarters
CARDINAL Louis Sako, patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, has announced he is withdrawing from his headquarters in Baghdad after Iraqi President Abdul Rashid revoked a decree recognising him as head of the Christian Church in Iraq.
Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas one year after Daesh defeat
BAGHDAD: Iraqi Christians quietly celebrated Christmas on Tuesday amid improved security, more than a year after the country declared victory over Daesh militants who threatened to end their 2,000-year history in Iraq.
Druze: the great survivors. How the world’s most secretive faith has endured for a thousand years
To many, the Druze are an enigma, Arabic-speaking followers of an esoteric Abrahamic faith rooted in Islam, but which branched out on a different spiritual path in the 11th century.
Background to and Criticism of the Recent Claims that ‘Al-Aqsa is in Danger’
Last week in Jerusalem, as Jews celebrated Passover and Muslims observed Ramadan, violent images were broadcast of Palestinian thugs vandalising the Al-Aqsa Mosque and hurling Molotov cocktails, stones, and fireworks on the Temple Mount itself and at Jews praying at the Western Wall.
Iraq’s ‘Other’ Minorities Still Endangered
The Islamic State group’s caliphate was mostly defeated as a territorially consolidated entity in Iraq by late 2017. Yet some of the most vulnerable peoples it targeted, such as Yazidis and Christian Assyrians, remain under existential threat.
The Coptic miracle. How Egypt’s historic Christian church survived and thrived.
In Feb. 15 2015, the world reacted with revulsion to the release of a video showing the savage execution of 21 men on a Mediterranean beach, near Sirte in Libya.
Under Jerusalem: The Buried History of the World’s Most Controversial City by Andrew Lawler
The rabbinic tradition speaks of a Jerusalem above and a Jerusalem below. It imagines the earthbound city as a reflection of a heavenly one—the latter perfect and the former aspiring to perfection.
Biden’s First Year in the Middle East: Laudable Aims and Many Contradictions
A year into Joe Biden’s administration, the United States has continued the past two administrations’ policy of downgrading U.S. military commitments in the Middle East.
The Music Plays Again in Mosul
The light of song and celebration shines again after a ban plunged the onetime city of art and culture into the darkness of silence
‘Now There Is No One’: The Lament of One of the Last Christians in a Syrian City
Michel Butros al-Jisri is among the few Christians left from a once-vibrant community in Idlib on the brink of disappearing.
Holy Land Christian leaders want guarantees on protection of people, sites
JERUSALEM — Christian leaders in the Holy Land have asked for “an urgent dialogue” with Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders “to ensure that no citizen or institution has to live under threat of violence or intimidation.”