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How Christianity Remade the World December 26, 2024

The Surprising Truth About the West’s Christian Revival December 24, 2024

The mounting evidence for a ‘rebirth of belief in God’...

Syria’s Christians: ‘We Have No Reason To Trust Al-Jolani’ December 14, 2024

In the wake of Assad’s fall, Syria’s 500,000 Christians are living in limbo. Here’s what they told us about their fears....

Syria

Navigating Troubled Waters: The Houthis’ Campaign December 04, 2024

Houthis

Christian Militias Opposing Hezbollah in Lebanon December 03, 2024

In April this year, Pascal Sleiman, a coordinator for the Lebanese Forces (LF) party—Lebanon’s largest Christian party—was abducted near Byblos, north of Beirut, and later found dead in Syria....

Lebanon

A Christian Nation? February 15, 2024

Can America become a more Christian nation through public school prayer and higher wages for workers? Senator Josh Hawley offers this counsel in a recent First Things article, “Our Christian Nation.” ...

Christianity

Conflict in the Nagorno-Karabakh Demands U.S. Diplomacy February 09, 2024

Early this year, the United States placed Azerbaijan on a watchlist for violating religious freedom after it invaded Nagorno-Karabakh, a region with Christian religious sites. The move, which could include sanctions, is one of several steps the Unite...

Armenia

Has Putin Outlasted the U.S.? February 01, 2024

Ukrainian soldiers on the front lines of the war with Russia were jubilant when HIMARS, the U.S. Army’s coveted multiple rocket launcher, arrived on the battlefield in July 2022. ...

Russia

Ukraine war

Why I Am Now a Christian November 13, 2023

In 2002, I discovered a 1927 lecture by Bertrand Russell entitled “Why I am Not a Christian”. It did not cross my mind, as I read it, that one day, nearly a century after he delivered it to the South London branch of the National Secular Society, I w...

Christianity

Rising Anti-Semitism Highlights the Danger of Toxic Empathy November 10, 2023

One might have expected the response to the October 7th Simchat Torah massacre, the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, to be compassion for the victims. Instead, the event has fueled the rising flames of antisemitism across the nation, wit...

Religious Freedom Must Be Enshrined in U.S. Foreign Policy November 01, 2023

The Biden administration is crafting important proposals for aid to Israel and to respond to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Conspicuously missing from the billions in funding for these efforts is the cause of international religious freedom for the...

Europe's Post-Religious Right May 31, 2023

Religious nationalism threatens liberal democracy around the world, at least according to many critics. Its leaders are said to include India’s Narendra Modi, Hungary’s Victor Orbán, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Brazil’s Jair Messias Bolsonaro, and...

Europe

Christianity

Sinan Oğan Sees His Moment in Turkey Election May 15, 2023

Both Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his rival Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu will want the 3 million votes that Sinan Oğan won in Sunday’s 1st round. ...

Turkey

Russia Evicted From the Heart of Ukraine April 04, 2023

The fate of Pechersk Lavra, the Monastery of the Caves, is heavily entangled in the history of Ukraine and Russia...

Eastern Orthodox Church

Russian Orthodox Church

Russia

Is the Future of Christianity African? April 03, 2023

There is a building in the south London borough of Lambeth that used to be a bingo hall. For decades, generations of men and women came here for pleasure and recreation, community and belonging. Now its grey walls are scoured with graffiti. This buil...

Christianity

Africa

Christianity's Retreat From England, Mapped December 06, 2022

For the first time in almost 1500 years, England is no longer majority Christian. ...

Christianity

United Kingdom

Europe