PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A Muslim suicide attack on a historic Christian church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 78 people on Sunday in one of the deadliest attacks on the Christian minority in Pakistan in years. The attack occurred as worshipers left All Saints Church in the old quarter of the regional capital, Peshawar, after […]
As I write, the city of Maaloula in Syria has become a ghost town after being briefly occupied by members of the al Qaeda–linked jihadist group al-Nusra Front. Conflicting reports claim that al-Nusra fighters have desecrated churches and statues in what may be one of the oldest Christian cities in the world, a place where […]
Many of Sen. John McCain’s constituents are not happy with the Arizona Republican’s support of President Barack Obama’s plan to take military action against Syria. Voters made that much perfectly clear when they confronted him at a town hall in Phoenix on Thursday. A Syrian Christian woman at the Arizona town hall who has […]
The following list of 58 looted and burned buildings (including convents and schools) has been verified by representatives of the Christian Churches. At least 58 Christian churches, schools, institutions, homes and shops have been attacked, looted and torched over the last three days by the Muslim Brotherhood and supporters of Mohamed Morsi, the former Egyptian […]
Sobering news for Christmas: Christianity faces being wiped out of the “biblical heartlands” in the Middle East because of mounting persecution of worshippers by Muslims, according to a new report. The study warns that Christians suffer greater hostility across the world than any other religious group, mostly from Islamic groups. And it claims politicians have […]
The 1915 Armenian and Assyrian Genocides: Inconvenient Precedents for the Arab Spring Revolutions …by Ranbir Singh It was in a speech of 22 August 1939 that Hitler urged his volk to slaughter without mercy men, women and children of the inferior Slavic race as he planned to invade Poland. He ended this […]
Is South Sudan the Key to Christian Survival in the Middle East? by Ranbir Singh As the Arab Spring turns into the inevitable Arab Ice Age where can minority Christians turn The independence of South Sudan on 24 July 2011 was a momentous event. After decades of fighting domination by the Arabic speaking and increasingly […]
