Writing from Paris, Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry reports: It was only recently that I was struck by the fact that, imperceptibly, the majority of my college and grad school friends who were Christmas-and-Easter-Catholics when we met now report going to Church every Sunday and praying regularly. On social media, they used to post about parties; now they’re […]
A new study in the China Economic Review exploring the impact of religious beliefs on economic development has found that “Christianity has the most significant effect on economic growth” and that the steady increase of Christianity has played an important role in China’s economic rise. The study by Qunyong Wang of the Institute of Statistics […]
Politicians and the media assure us that the actions of ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) have nothing to do with the teachings of Muhammad or the Qu’ran. Jihadists fighting for ISIS, however, can quote Allah and Muhammad to justify their campaign of violence and terrorism. So is ISIS Islamic? In the Western […]
(Reuters) – Baghdad’s embattled Christian community worshipped defiantly Wednesday night at Christmas Eve mass. The pews filled at Baghdad’s Sacred Heart church, as people remembered the darkest year in memory. Blast walls shielded the church and seven policeman flanked the outside of the house of worship, in an indication of the government’s fear of an […]
By Alan Caruba As usual, those for whom laws, ethics, and good will mean nothing have come together to try to ruin Christmas for the rest of us. Christmas means different things to different people and depends to a large degree on age. For the young it is a magical time of getting gifts. As […]
By Theodore Shoebat The Crusade continues, and will only grow… The city of Moscow has now decreed that there will be no new mosques built, and has now put a ban on the construction of any one of those houses of heresy, and this of course demands our emulation. The mayor of Moscow, Sergei […]
Bill O’Reilly slammed the “dubious people” who wrote “misleading things” about Jesus in a new book. “The Lost Gospel” claims that Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and had two children. But O’Reilly, author of “Killing Jesus,” says there is “absolutely no evidence” to back that claim. “This stupid new book is a fraud and […]
A Greek Orthodox priest told a United Nations panel about the horrifying plight of Christians in the Middle East and said Israel is the only place in the region where Christians can live in safety. “The earth of the Middle East is soaked with the blood of Christians being killed daily,” Father Gabriel Naddaf, who […]
Every once in a while a case comes along where I am tempted to suggest that we skip a few steps in the normal process. Or maybe the vast majority of the steps. This one is a situation where my inclination is to say, let’s just skip the local court case, the appeals and the […]
Christians found themselves on the road to extinction in Mosul after ISIS captured the city. For the first time in sixteen hundred years, no Church bells rang on Sunday. It is not an anomaly, in the Syrian city of Raqqa Sunni warriors convey a simple message, “convert to Islam or face the sword.” The genocide […]
