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ISIS Captures Christians: Piece by Piece, Middle Eastern Christianity Is Being Shattered

Still reeling from last week’s news of the Islamist beheading of 21 Coptic Christian migrant workers in Libya, Middle Eastern Christians were again targeted by a large scale Islamist terror [...]

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An Invitation to Join the Human Club

One such key value is reflected in Christ’s subversive definition of who is our neighbour—a definition that stood poles apart from the prevalent human and Jewish thinking at that [...]

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Hypocrisy Alert: Qatari Leader Throws Weight Behind Pluralism and Inclusiveness

In Washington for an Oval Office meeting Tuesday afternoon with President Barack Obama, Thani previewed the message he would deliver to his American counterpart with this whopper:   [...]

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Rights Groups Slam Jail Term for Activist Alaa Abdel Fattah

The groups said they were “extremely disturbed by the verdict” against Abdel Fattah, a prominent figure of the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak. They said in their joint statement [...]

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Egypt’s War on ISIS: A Brief History

Vengeance was a top priority for the Egyptian president after a video uploaded by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) showed the beheading of twenty Egyptians and a Ghanaian on a beach, [...]

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Longtime Lawmaker Frank Wolf’s New Fight to Represent Middle East’s Christians

Since leaving politics, Wolf has co-founded the religious freedom group, 21st Century Wilberforce Initiative, which recently released a disturbing report about the plight of Christians and their [...]

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Drive-By Jihadis Murder Another Coptic Christian in Sinai

On February 23, another Coptic Christian man was fatally shot in al-‘Arish, Sinai, by members of the Islamic terrorist group, Ansar Bait al-Maqdis.   Hani, the Coptic man, was in his [...]

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Martyred Copts Witnessed Their Faith, and Courage

KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ:What is the most important thing for Americans to know about what happened to those 21 Coptic Christians a little over a week ago?   SAMUEL TADROS:I would argue that the [...]

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Hundreds Brave Chill to Rally in Washington D.C. in Memory of Copts Slain in Libya

  The rally, organized by Coptic Solidarity, marched in the streets of the capital, stopping at the Washington Post and other media offices.               [...]

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Coptic Christian Protest Urges White House Action Against Islamic State

Shortly after Christmas, Alham and 20 of his fellow Coptic laborers were kidnapped by Islamic State militants in Libya. In mid-February, they were marched to a Mediterranean beach in handcuffs [...]