Tag:Middle East

Today’s Maundy Thursday House of Lords Debate on Syria: A Modern Day Calvary. Why those who have slaughtered Christians, Yazidis and other Minorities...

By Lord David Alton (CB)- Speech given during Maundy Thursday House of Lords Debate on SyriaA modern day Calvary ....3.09 pmMy Lords, I begin by paying tribute...

Sen. Rubio Urges Help for Displaced Middle East Christians

By Order of St. Andrew, Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchatehttps://youtu.be/j4V-DU5YvOwSen. Marco Rubio emphasized Wednesday that with the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle...

The Middle East Is Nearing an Explosion

By Robert Malley - The AtlanticFear is the one thing preventing it—but could also precipitate it.BEIRUT—Lebanon has long been a mirror for the broader...

Book review: ‘The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East,’ by Ronald J. Rychlak and Jane F. Adolphe

By Stephen Herreid - Acton InstituteA book about religious persecution is perhaps an unusual place to find a call for Western rejuvenation. Yet readers...

Where Do Languages Go to Die? When Aramaic Was Middle East’s Lingua France

By John McWhorter - The Atlantic (via AINA) -The tale of Aramaic, a language that once ruled the Middle East and now faces extinctionIf...

Want to defeat the legacy of ISIS? Try rebuilding non-Muslim communities it has destroyed.

The Washington Post - By Alberto FernandezAlberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, served as the State Department’s coordinator for...

Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Speaks on the Future of Christians in the Middle East

By Bar Daisan - AINA NewsThe future of Christians in the Middle East was the subject of a panel discussion at the Munich Security...

Jesus didn’t “turn the other cheek”—neither should you

By R. Robert McTeigue, SJ - AleteiaIt’s time to talk about resisting evilWhat’s the second most misunderstood passage of Scripture? (The first: “Judge not,...