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March 2016

March 29, 2016

How ISIS observed Good Friday

ISIS observed Good Friday by crucifying a priest. After attacking a nursing home in Yemen,...

March 22, 2016

ISIS charged with genocide

Secretary of State John Kerry concurred with a unanimous House of Representatives resolution in formally...

November 2015

November 23, 2015

Christians won’t qualify as victims of genocide

An upcoming State Department report will charge ISIS with genocide against the Yazidis, a small...

November 20, 2015

Discrimination against Christian refugees

The Obama administration has indignantly rejected suggestions that the United States favor Christians and other...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

“Voting Republican will not save us now”

Rod Dreher takes a bleak look at the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage. It...

June 04, 2015

Soft persecution

Catholic journalist Russell Shaw analyzes the persecution of Christianity that is breaking out in our...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

Christians as enemies of the human race

Michael Avramovich observes that "In the ancient Roman world, Christians were referred to as 'hostis...

April 06, 2015

Admit to be a Christian and be killed

At last count, 147 Kenyan university students were killed by al-Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists. Most of...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

Persecuted Christians who fight back

Christians worldwide have been facing intense persecution. But now some of them are fighting back. ...

March 18, 2015

The actual war against Christianity

As Christians are preoccupied with the thought that the culture is carrying on a war...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

ISIS abducts 150 Assyrian Christians

The Assyrian Church, which is neither Catholic nor Eastern Orthodox, traces its history to the...

February 19, 2015

The faith of an ISIS captive

Kayla Mueller was a 26-year-old American who worked to help Syrian refugees. She was captured...

February 16, 2015

More martyrs for faith & freedom

ISIS now has a presence in Libya, and the group has beheaded 21 Coptic Christians...

January 2015

January 12, 2015

Persecution rates

Open Doors has released statistics about the persecution of Christians in 2014: how many Christians...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Why Christians in Iraq won’t go back

There are more Biblical sites in Iraq than in any other nation other than Israel: ...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

We are all Nazarenes

The Nazis painted a yellow Star of David on the homes of Jews to mark...

July 29, 2014

Meriam Ishag is safe

The Sudanese woman who had been sentenced to death for refusing to recant her Christianity...

July 22, 2014

Marked with an “N” for “Nazarene”

Some are saying a "Christian holocaust" may be on the verge of breaking out in...

July 21, 2014

Islamic State’s ultimatum for Christians

The Islamic State--formerly known as the ISIS insurgents in Iraq--gave Christians in Mosul an ultimatum. ...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

A bold convert from Islam

Bishoy Armia Boulous converted from Islam to Christianity seven years ago and compounded his offense...

June 27, 2014

Sudanese Christian taking refuge in U.S. Embassy

An update on Meeriam Ibrahim, the woman sentenced to death for refusing to renounce her...

June 24, 2014

Sudanese Christian woman re-arrested

Meriam Ibrahim, whom a judge released after overruling her death sentence for being a Christian,...

June 24, 2014

Making Christianity strange again

Russell Moore thinks the persecution of Christians around the world might bring American Christianity back...

June 23, 2014

The woman condemned to die for her faith is released!

A Sudanese court has released Meriam Ibrahim, who had been sentenced to die for refusing...

June 02, 2014

Sudan denies the release of condemned Christian

This weekend there were reports that Sudan would release the woman who was condemned to...

May 2014

May 26, 2014

“The hardest place on earth to be a Christian”

That would be Pakistan, according to Jesse Johnson. It isn't just that Christian are persecuted...

May 21, 2014

More on the Christian sentenced to die for her faith

More details about the Sudanese woman we blogged about who was sentenced to hang because...

May 16, 2014

Renounce Christianity or die

Globally, we are back to the early Church. A court in Sudan has sentenced a...

May 13, 2014

The Nigerian schoolgirl kidnappings as Christian persecution

The public is rightly horrified by the kidnapping of some 276 Nigerian high school girls...

April 2014

April 23, 2014

Battling Christianity’s “excessive” growth in China

Officials in still-Communist China have been demolishing churches as a way to combat what one...