Opinion

For a century and a half, the varied strands of Middle East Christianity have faced increasingly fierce pogroms and, for the Armenians, outright genocide....

Egypt for decades had banned the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islamist groups from both the military and police academies after Islamic terrorists in the...

Morsi himself is a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood; Zawahiri is a former member who grew impatient with the Brotherhood’s tactics of non-violent patience...

Every public gesture and word of the Holy Father tends to have meaning. So what was the pope saying with this symbolism as he...

Given its history of brutal dictatorship, Iraq might seem to be the last place in the Middle East we should have tried to help...

And yet a terrifying escalation of extremist attacks against religious minorities and aid workers since the start of the year has shown the government...

The most recent example comes from Al Hafiz TV, an Egyptian Islamic station.  During a roundtable discussion on the U.S. and foreign aid to...

But North Korea is at least recognized as a rogue state, an enemy of human rights and a threat to world peace. The USCIRF...