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By Stephen Herreid – Acton Institute –  A book about religious persecution is perhaps an unusual place to find a call for Western rejuvenation. Yet readers of The Persecution and [...]

By The Alabama Baptist – Turkey — it sometimes slips out of view since it doesn’t make the Secretary of State’s “Countries of Particular Concern” list for [...]

By 21st Century Wilberforce – At dawn, the Muslim call to prayer echoes down the streets of Tehran. About 20 miles west of the busy Iranian capitol, a Christian prisoner of conscience [...]

Book review by Stephen Herreid – Acton Institute  (via AINA) – ‘The Persecution and Genocide of Christians in the Middle East: Prevention, Prohibition, and Prosecution.’ [...]

By World Watch Monitor – A 16-year-old Pakistani Christian boy has been charged with blasphemy for talking with a colleague about his belief in Jesus, the second such incident in a month. [...]

By John Burger – Aleteia –  1600-year-old monastery at center of ongoing dispute Turkey’s appropriation of Syriac Church property represents a reversal from Ankara’s policies towards [...]

The Washington Post – By Alberto Fernandez –  Alberto Fernandez, vice president of the Middle East Media Research Institute, served as the State Department’s coordinator for the [...]

By Asif Aqeel – WorldWatch Monitor –  The father of one of 42 Pakistanis – who are on trial for lynching two men they suspected of the double bombing of neighbouring churches in March [...]

By Bel Trew – The Times (UK) Two Isis fighters wielding guns approached their target. Bahgat Zakhar, 58, was an Egyptian Copt on a “kill list” and the terrorists had been tracking him for [...]

By Neil Hicks, Human Rights First –  Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will visit President Trump at the White House next week. The visit comes at a time when governments around the [...]