On Monday, March 14, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed Resolution 75, which declares and condemns, in the clearest of language, that the Islamic State has committed acts of genocide against Assyrian Christians and Yezidis in Iraq and Syria.
Thursday on the Fox News Channel, network contributor retired Lt. Col. Ralph Peters reacted to Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledgment that ISIS is indeed committing genocide against other sects of Islam and other religions. Peters said the reluctance up until
On Thursday, Secretary of State John Kerry acknowledged that ISIS, which he refers to as Daesh, is indeed committing genocide. The Obama administration had been reluctant to use such terminology, but Kerry for apparently the first time has used the term
Monday night, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution labeling the Islamist slaughter of Christians in the Middle East “genocide.”
The U.S. State Department is currently facing pressure to formally recognize the purge of Christians from Iraq and Syria as genocide. The Islamic State added to the mountain of evidence against it by releasing a video that shows hundreds of Christian books burned in the captive city of Mosul.
Boston University professor Stephen Prothero writes in Politico Magazine that evangelical voters breaking for Donald Trump have let their political identity trump their religious identity.
Radical Islamic group Boko Haram has forced Catholics, Anglicans, and Pentecostals to unite and fight against the violence.
Christian converts are being expelled from an asylum home in Berlin according to Junge Freiheit. Six Iranian Christians who were former Muslims themselves have fled the centre fearing for their safety and their lives. The incidents all occurred at a
Iraqi militia groups supported by Iran have been seizing Christian property in Baghdad, including homes, businesses, and churches, in a process described as “ethnic cleansing” by Iraqi Christian community leaders.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Iran’s mullahs have taken to Twitter and Instagram, respectively, for recruitment.
Well, that’s settled. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will not be the 2016 Republican nominee for president.
Mirna Hana, 12, fled the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) for Lebanon months ago. She took her talents to the national program The Voice Kids, where she stunned the judges with her breathtaking renditions of “Yesterday in a Dream” and “Let It Go.”
Christians in Cameroon gathered around mosques to protect Muslims near the Nigerian border from Boko Haram attacks.
Rafael Cruz – father of GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and author of A Time for Action – joined Breitbart News Daily with host Stephen K. Bannon and said Americans must “elect righteous leaders…that want to be servants, not dictators, but servants to ‘We the People.’”
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has started auctioning off property belonging to Christians in Mosul, Iraq, as a way to raise funds.
President Obama had a few words to say about discrimination against Muslims in his State of the Union speech, but nothing about discrimination against Christians – which includes assault, murder, and imprisonment globally. The omission was as shameful as it was unsurprising.
It’s refreshing when statements issued by the President of the United States correspond to reality – as in President Obama’s 2015 Christmas statement, when he acknowledged that Christians and other religious minorities are persecuted because of their faith.
The latest news from that most trustworthy of nuclear partners, Iran, has secret police thugs beating a Christian convert and dragging him off into the snow, while his family unsuccessfully pleaded to at least give him some warm clothing.
The latest depredations of the Islamic State include the bombing of Assyrian Christian homes, and a monastery occupied by Assyrian nuns, plus the vandalism of a Christian cemetery in Kirkuk.
Four Christians have been beaten up in Berlin, Germany’s capital city, in the early hours of Saturday morning. German media reports that four men were leaving the Adagio venue in the bustling Potzdamer Platz area when they were challenged by a
What exactly do Christians celebrate at Christmas? This is the story of the birth of Jesus in the town of Bethlehem, from the Gospel according to Matthew
While continuing to enjoy their Christmas vacation in Hawaii, President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama issued a statement acknowledging the suffering of persecuted Christians in the Middle East.
A casually-dressed Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife, Asma, made a surprise visit to the Lady of Damascus Catholic Church in war-torn Syria’s capital city on Friday evening. They watched a choir rehearsal, listened to some Christmas poems, and posed for photos with churchgoers.
The killing and enslavement of Christians and Yazidis by Islamic State must be recognised as genocide, a group of Parliamentarians has said. They have written to the Prime Minister, David Cameron, urging him to use his influence in the United
“A school district in Kentucky has ordered all administrators under its jurisdiction to remove religious references from Christmas productions, leading one facility to censor its planned elementary presentation of A Charlie Brown Christmas by blotting out “the Gospel of Luke read by little Linus,” Cheryl Chumley reports at WND.
Russian airstrikes allegedly against Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria have forced airports in northern Iraq to close, stranding hundreds of Christians waiting to leave for Europe.
Prayer at Air Force Academy football games is a “putrid example of fundamentalist Christian supremacy,” according to radical atheist Mikey Weinstein, who has worked with President Barack Obama’s administration to purge faithful Christians from the ranks of the U.S. military.
The Palestinian Authority (PA), ruled by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, has ordered localities under its control to clamp down on Christians celebrating Christmas in public this year.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will announce next week that he is being endorsed by a coalition of 100 black pastors and religious leaders, reports say.
Four centuries after white Christians landed in Jamestown and settled what would later become America, a report reveals that white Christians are now a minority in the nation their forbearers settled.
President Barack Obama hit Republicans for suggesting the U.S. should favor Christian refugees over Muslims. But there are very good reasons to apply a religious test to Syrian refugees.
The Vicar of Baghdad has gone the extra mile to deal with Islamist terrorism in Iraq. He even invited ISIS terrorists to dinner, despite their putting a $157 million bounty on his head.
On Oct. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decided the case of what the court called “self-described Christian evangelists preaching hate and denigration to a crowd of Muslims, some of whom responded with threats of violence.”
More than 130 notable converts to Catholicism have published an open letter begging Pope Francis and the bishops gathered at the Vatican Synod on Marriage and the Family to stand firm in teaching traditional Christian beliefs regarding the permanence of marriage, human sexuality, and the meaning of the family.
On Friday, in response to the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon in which Christians were targeted and murdered, Tennessee Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey minced no words in his concise message to Christians and those who believe in the values of Western Civilization: buy guns.
Pakistan’s Christians are finding it harder to secure asylum in Britain, despite the rise of their persecution within Pakistan. Over the last two years, the rate of Christians successfully applying for asylum has halved, according to Home Office figures, even
Whatever his core political beliefs might be, and how they were shaped by his upbringing, Pope Francis has clearly been intent on making the Catholic Church more acceptable to the Left. He has a knack for making statements that set left-wing hearts aflutter, even though what he really said often turns out to be considerably less liberal than breathless news reports led readers to believe, particularly when his original statement was not made in English.
The first stories about ISIS desecrating churches and turning them into torture chambers, where Christians were slaughtered or forced to convert to Islam, began surfacing at the end of 2014. A new report from Christian Freedom International found the persecution of Christians was even more brutal and widespread than believed, with centuries-old Christian communities across the Islamic State war zone completely wiped out.
An Iowa news outlet tried–and failed–to draft Sen. Ted Cruz into the media’s campaign against Dr. Ben Carson, following the doctor’s Sunday declaration of opposition to Islamic ideology.
Donald Trump is hitting back twice as hard as Democrats — led by the White House — attack him for not rebuking a town-hall questioner who declared that President Barack Obama is a Muslim.
