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Six years later, wars are raging in Libya, Syria, Iraq and now Yemen.   “The mood here is that we really are at a crisis point that is unprecedented in recent memory,” said [...]

“We think too of our brothers and sisters who are persecuted because they are Christians,” he said, “the martyrs of our own time.” The Holy Father went on to say, [...]

You can say what you want about the origins of the current mess in the Middle East, but the fact that America’s relations with every important country in the region are worse with the [...]

This operation, that received immediate logistical and intelligence aid from the U.S., was termed by Arab media "an overall change in Arab politics" and a precedent in which "Arabs [...]

Islamists often do not hide it: They love head-count democracy in lands where they make a majority; and hate it in lands where they are in the minority. They would crush other faiths, including [...]

There are clearer signs now that Syria is heading for a long term de facto partition. Several factors lead to that prediction: The emergence of an increasing trend towards unification among the [...]

The government had proposed to build a church in al-Our to commemorate the village’s martyrs. A Coptic businessman recently bought a piece of land on which to build the church, and the [...]

That is why the most important conflict in the world today is between those who are hell-bent on preserving, and even increasing, these incompatibilities, and those who are bravely prepared to [...]

For the first time, the UN Security Council devoted a debate to the persecution of minorities under attack by jihadists, according to ANSAMed, a service of the Italian news agency ANSA. French [...]

Even as religious figures, community leaders, and national politicians have expressed their condolences to the victims’ families in the province of Minya, the attacks prompted the Egyptian [...]