Selected Opinion

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute –  “In Iran, any practice that contradicts Islam is regarded as a national security threat, punished severely by the court system.” — [...]

By Raymond Ibrahim – Today, April 24, marks the “Great Crime,” that is, the genocide of Christians—mostly Armenians but also Assyrians—that took place under the Islamic Ottoman Empire, [...]

By The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board – The killers may have taken their bloody cues from the attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt on Palm Sunday in 2017. The Easter Sunday slaughter [...]

By Uzay Bulut – Gatestone Institute – The current violence, which has been getting worse since early 2017, “is slightly different, in that it is a series of targeted attacks on [...]

By International Christian Concern – This is a consequence of the fact that the Egyptian government is very slow to approve applications for the construction of new churches. All too often, [...]

By Egyptian Initiatie for Personal Rights – EIPR condemns closure of the Naga al-Ghafir church in Sohag by security and documents closure of 22 churches since enactment of the church [...]

By Carl Anderson – Wall Street Journal – Iran-backed militias are keeping minority groups from returning home post-ISIS. Before visiting Iraq last month, I met with Pope Francis. He [...]

By Lord David Alton – Address by David Alton (Lord Alton of Liverpool) at the Danube Institute Conference on Religious Freedom, April 9th 2019, The Reform Club, London. In 1896, at the age [...]

By Stephen McInerney and Amy Hawthorne – POMED –  Sisi’s supporters praise his religious tolerance. They shouldn’t. Earlier this year, U.S. President Donald Trump’s praise of one of [...]

By Uzay Bulut– Gatestone Institute – “When Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, virtually all of the city’s surviving cathedrals and churches were — [...]