religious persecution

How Rod Dreher gets Russian history—and the American present—wrong

Will the US and other nations speak up?

A riveting history of religious dissenters, from William Blake to Clarence Jordan

Shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris in mid-November, Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz set off a flurry of controversy when he announced that he believed the federal government should bar Muslim refugees fleeing violence and civil war in Syria from resettling in the United States. He stated on Fox News, “on the other hand, Christians who are being targeted for genocide, for persecution, Christians who are being beheaded or crucified, we should be providing safe haven to them.”

After President Obama described these sentiments as “shameful” and “un-American,” Cruz doubled down.

Few secrets are as devastating as those that make us rethink our identity. Heidi Neumark discovered one when her daughter Googled their name.

Western media treat Asian faiths quite generously in matters of religious conflict. Yet Christians on the ground in Asia face serious issues.

ISIS’s primary targets remain Muslims it views as apostate. But a new generation of Christian martyrs is arising as well.

Once upon a time—and not long ago—there was another Europe. The religious story of communist Europe, in which Christians suffered horrific persecutions, is forgotten by most Americans today.

An irony of Christian life amid the Arab Spring is that Christians have
frequently been protected by the authoritarian regimes that are under
attack.