Blessed are the Persecuted
by Jordan ZajacI am deeply saddened by the attack perpetrated against Fr. Jacques Hamel. But I am not surprised by it. Continue Reading »
An Inquisition Is Not a Witch-Hunt
by David P. GoldmanMembers of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law. This Inquisition, though, will not be defeated by reasoned pleas but by concerted counterattacks. Continue Reading »
Christian Freedom Amidst Persecution
by Stephen SchwartzThis volume accompanies another substantial collection, Christianity and Freedom: Volume 1, Historical Perspectives, prepared by the same editors. Professor Hertzke is a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences as well as the faculty of the University of Oklahoma. Mr. Shah is associate director of the Religious Freedom Project at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and associate professor in the Government Department at Georgetown University.
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The Pacifist Temptation
by William Doino Jr.A few days after the Vatican unveiled Amoris Laetitia, the Pope’s impressive exhortation on families in the contemporary world, it hosted another event—one much less worthy of praise.The Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, along with Pax Christi (an international Catholic peace movement), . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crisis in International Religious Freedom
by David D. CoreyIn September of this year, Baylor University sponsored two lectures on the topic of religious persecution. The presenters were former congressman Frank Wolf (now the Jerry and Susie Wilson Chair of Religious Freedom at Baylor) and Princeton Professor Robert P. George, who currently serves as the . . . . Continue Reading »
Burning Churches in Israel
by Ramona V. TauszEarlier this summer, in the spot on the Sea of Galilee traditionally hailed as the site of Christ’s feeding of the five thousand, the Roman Catholic Church of the Multiplication of the Loaves and Fishes in Tabgha, Israel, was torched in an arson attack. And as of Thursday, three young right-wing Jewish men—Yinon Reuveni, twenty, Yehuda Asraf, nineteen, and Moshe Orbach, twenty-four—have been indicted on suspicion of responsibility. Continue Reading »
The New York Times on Mideast Christians
by Mark MovsesianMideast Christians have the misfortune to be too foreign for the Right and too Christian for the Left. Continue Reading »
When Discrimination Means Death
by Dominic Bouck, O.P.The social media world has been aflutter over the possibility that a flight attendant discriminated against a Muslim woman by denying her an unopened can of soda.But a story about the plight of Christians in India hasn’t caused a firestorm in the media. It is fascinating that a racial . . . . Continue Reading »
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