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‘What if something even worse than ISIS comes?’

A displaced Iraqi Christian has spoken of the despair she feels almost three years after being forced to flee her home in Qaraqosh in the Nineveh Plains. “What did we do to deserve this? I hate travelling and immigration, but today, for the sake of my children, if I had . . . Read More

‘Religious freedom key to Trump war on terrorism’

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An American Muslim says propagating freedom of religion is the key to US President Donald Trump’s aim to “eradicate” radicalism and terrorism “from the face of the earth”. Amer Aziz, writing for The Hill, praised the establishment in 1998 of an office of Religious Freedom in the US State Department, . . . Read More

Pope: ‘Church without martyrs is without Jesus’

Pope Francis has again spoken of his admiration for suffering Christians around the world, saying “a Church without martyrs, dare I say, is a Church without Jesus”. “Martyrs are the ones who carry the Church forward,” he said, as he presided over Mass in the Vatican on 30 January. “The . . . Read More

Extremism inside Indonesia’s largest Islamic group

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After Indonesian Christian leaders met the country’s President to plead for action against the country’s Islamic Defenders Front, there are now fears that the largest Islamic organisation in Indonesia may also be becoming increasingly conservative in its views. The Christian leaders told President Joko Widodo that the Islamic Defenders Front . . . Read More

North Korea asks US universities for help

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North Korea’s only private university has asked for tuition from about 10 universities in the United States on subjects such as food security and improving nutrition, reports Reuters. The Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, with a volunteer staff that includes many evangelical Christians and a curriculum that includes subjects . . . Read More

Trump’s migrant policy ‘a trap for Christians’

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US President Donald Trump’s fast-tracking of Christian refugees from the Middle East will be “a trap,” according to Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, Primate of the Eastern Catholic Church. “Every reception policy that discriminates the persecuted and suffering on religious grounds ultimately harms the Christians of the East,” he . . . Read More