Selected Opinion

By Nina Shea (via AINA) – In the Nineveh Plains, only a third of the Christian population that was driven by ISIS from their homes nearly four years ago has returned. A traumatized [...]

By Thomas Farr  – Religious Freedom Institute – The Trump administration released its first National Security Strategy (NSS) report at the end of last year. Unlike those of the [...]

By Fr. Benedict Kiely – AINA Speaking during a homily at Mass early in 2017, Pope Francis declared there were now more Christian martyrs — men, women and children who had died [...]

By Farahnaz Ispahani – CNN –  Editor’s note: Farahnaz Ispahani is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and a senior fellow for South and [...]

By Claire Evans – International Christian Concern –  During the last year, Egypt’s Christians experienced persecution in ever increasing waves. Though ISIS accounted for the vast [...]

By Lela Gilbert – NewsMax A touching news story surfaced a few days ago, briefly casting a flicker of light across Egypt’s shadowy heartland. The report applauded the Egyptian government’s [...]

By Magdi Khalil – FrontPage Magazine –  Editor’s note: Magdi Khalil, an Egyptian-born human right’s activist and Copt now living in America, explains how he escaped Egyptian-style [...]

By Nina Shea – Fox News –  The West is showing evidence of a newly stiffened spine in the face of Saudi Arabian influence on Islamic culture – and none too soon. The world heard the [...]

By Majid Rafizadeh – Gatestone Institute –  My father’s generation in Iran lived in an environment in which the Islamist party of the country’s clergy cunningly depicted [...]

By Abdallah Hendawy and Geneive Abdo – Bloomberg –  Like his predecessors, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi has found the group impossible to ignore. More than four years after Egypt’s [...]