Selected Opinion

The Islamic State sent me a letter this week, in the form of a short film produced by ISIS's Al-Hayat Media centre. This was not addressed to me personally, but to all Christians everywhere. [...]

Look at the recent roster of ISIL terror: in Libya, jihadi militants capture and then behead 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt. This barbaric attack prompted the UN Security Council to issue a [...]

This mistaken idea seems to be Obama administration policy.   Marie Harf, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, recently said:   We cannot win this war by killing [jihadists]. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

  February 2015 saw the dawning of a new strategic reality in the Middle East: Egypt completely broke its strategic dependence on the United States.   And, once again, no one in [...]

The precipitating event of the last week was the release of an ISIS video detailing the beheading of 21 Egyptians, all from the poor province of Minya, and all belonging to the Coptic Orthodox [...]

The killers may have aimed to exploit sectarian hostilities — as they have in Iraq and Syria — and splinter Egyptian society. Paradoxically, however, this blatantly anti-Christian [...]

This is part of a broader political project of cleansing the Middle East of its religious minorities in Muslim majority contexts, a project whose orchestrators are a dense network of actors of [...]