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ISIS Desecrates, Razes Ancient Christian Monastery in Syria

Iraq-Syria News | (Video News Report) | - - "Yet again, ISIS violated the sanctity of Christianity in the Middle East and in Syria in particular. This time, the target was the…

Daesh/ ISIL takes 250 Captive, including 60 Christians in Syria

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In more bad news for the Baath regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) fighters have taken the town of Al…

Leader of extremist Israeli organization calls for torching churches

Ma'an News Agency | - - JERUSALEM (Ma'an) --The leader of a Jewish extremist group in Israel allegedly called for arson attacks on churches in front of Israeli students, Israeli media reported…

A demolished Palestinian village comes back to life

By Melanie Nakashian | (Waging Nonviolence) | - - Among the hundreds of Palestinian villages that were evacuated between 1947 and 1951, there is one whose descendants are actually getting close to…

As Glaciers Melt in Ecuador, Pope Francis challenges Technocrats, touts “Keeping” the Environment

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Pope Francis continues to preach environmentalism as he addresses crowds in Latin America, a challenging message in poor countries where over-exploitation of natural…

Israel releases 16 Squatter Youth suspected in arson of Church of Loaves & Fishes

By IMEMC | - - Israeli police detained and have now released 16 young Jewish settlers, Thursday, after an overnight arson attack damaged a revered shrine in northern Israel. The arson attack…

Why Conservatives fear Pope’s Climate Letter: A Radical Attack on the Logic of the Market

Steffen Böhm | (The Conversation) | - - What makes Pope Francis and his 187-page encyclical so radical isn’t just his call to urgently tackle climate change. It’s the fact he openly…

Israeli forces suppress protest over fraudulent purchase of West Bank church

HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Israeli forces on Saturday suppressed a march protesting the recent purchase by Israeli setters of a church compound in the southern West Bank. The 38 dunam compound, known as…

Conservative, Catholic Ireland 1st Country to vote in Gay Marriage

Channel 4 News | (Video) - "Support for gay marriage in Ireland reaches 65 per cent with just the final votes to be counted - a resounding yes which forces the hugely…

Vatican recognition of saints symbolic victory for Palestinians

By: Charlie Hoyle BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- The grounds of the Carmel Convent in Bethlehem, home to blue-shuttered stone buildings on a hilltop facing the Nativity Church, are adorned with the image of…

Palestinian Christians, under Pressure, Honored by Pres. Abbas as they welcome New Saints

BETHLEHEM (Ma'an) -- In the run up to Pope Francis' canonization of two Palestinian nuns, President Mahmoud Abbas praises Palestinian Christians for the "distinctive dimension" their community and history gives to the…

Palestinians welcome Pope’s Recognition of their State

By Juan Cole The Arabic press widely and favorably reported the news that the Vatican has recognized Palestine as a state in a new treaty with it, despite a strong protest from…

2015 Darwin Award: Paris would-be Church bomber Shoots own Leg, Calls 911

France24 | -- "This church in the Parisian suburb of Villejuif may have escaped being attacked last week-end. "Documentation was found that said without ambiguity that a person known to authorities would…

Palestinian Christian leaders criticize Israeli restrictions on Easter celebration

By Celine Hagbard | (IMEMC News) - The archbishop of the Sebastian Greek Orthodox Church, Atallah Hanna, addressed crowds in the town of al-Ezzariya (Lazarus) on Saturday, condemning the Israeli restrictions on…

Assyrian Christians and the ISIS Assault on the Remains of Nineveh

By Adam H. Becker | (Informed Comment) In their sanctimonious showboating ISIS has trashed the ruins of ancient Assyria and this is a loss for world cultural heritage and more so for…

ISIL/ Daesh wiping out Iraq’s Religious Minorities

By RFE/RL | - Human Rights organizations warn that the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has targeted minority communities in Iraq in a “systematic strategy to remove them permanently” from large parts…

Syria: Daesh/ ISIL takes 150 Christians Captive as 3,000 flea to Hasaka

Syria: Daesh/ ISIL takes 150 Christians Captive as 3,000 flee to Hasaka

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - Al-Nahar ("The Day," Beirut) reported that dozens of Assyrian Christians have been abducted by Daesh (ISIL, ISIS) in Hasakah Province, northeast Syria. Reuters later put…

Holy War: How Bill O’Reilly & Daesh/ ISIL Share The Same Goal

Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks) "Bill O’Reilly stated definitively, multiple times tonight, that he believes the United States and the world are in a “holy war” against ISIS and the White…

Fox News Contributor: Fifty Shades of Grey Heralds the End of the World

Ana Kasparian | (The Young Turks) - ""Fox News contributor Robert Jeffress believes that gay marriage and the film release of Fifty Shades of Grey are signs that the apocalypse is nearing.…

Why Obama is Right to avoid double standard about Modern Christian Atrocities

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) - President Obama, speaking on Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, condemned religious extremism in the Muslim world, noting that it is the work of twisted…