Christians in the Middle East

Bystanders to Genocide

“Who today still speaks of the massacre of the Armenians?”
—Adolf Hitler, August 22, 1939

Repairs at the Holy Sepulcher

Getting it done. Continue Reading »

Calling It Genocide

In a press statement yesterday, US Secretary of State John Kerry did what many human rights activists have been asking him to do for months: he called ISIS’s treatment of Christians and other religious minorities “genocide.” Kerry’s statement came as a surprise. For months, the State . . . . Continue Reading »

Foreign Policy Magazine on Iraqi Christians

From Foreign Policy, a moving essay on how Iraqi Christians are observing this Christmas season. Last month, the author, Christian Caryl, visited Erbil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, where Chaldean-rite Catholics, refugees from ISIS’s summer campaign, live in tents in a church courtyard: Continue Reading »

“N” is for Solidarity

Standing with Nazarenes in Iraq Continue Reading »