2025 was a complex and multifaceted year for Christians in the Middle East. Across six pivotal countries, the contours of ...
With Christians in Iraq and Syria on the brink of destruction, Walter Russell Mead wonders if Christians in the West will do more than wring their hands. He says we can either help Christians in the ...
Last December, my country finally threw off the chains of a hated, despotic regime. For many Syrians, it was a moment filled with hope – the belief that decades of repression had given way to a chance ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel will open what he described as a new front aimed at ...
One Middle Eastern power possesses the capability, the interest, and the moral authority to help fill this void. That power ...
Editor: The recent letter bemoaning “No Christmas peace for Palestinians” reeks of misleading polemics and curious omissions (Dec. 21). Had Mary and Joseph wanted to take the same trek today from ...
As the College of Cardinals prepares to gather in the conclave, the global Church enters a moment of discernment — and of speculation. Behind closed doors, names are floated, alliances weighed, and ...
Pope Francis expressed his concern that Christians fleeing the Holy Land and the whole of the Middle East will leave no Christian presence in the land "where it all began." The pope lamented the ...
Last month, St. Catherine's Monastery, located in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, was seized by the government. Among the earliest remarks by Pope Leo XIV were expressions and concern for ...