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Archives: Christianity
![Who are Egypt’s Coptic Christians, ISIL’s latest Victims?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/who-are-egypts-coptic-christians-187x137.jpg)
![Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/05/pope-francis-islam-and-peace-bui-187x137.jpg)
Pope Francis, Islam and Peace-Building
Interview by Jayson Casper | (Informed Comment) | - - Dr. Kamal Boraiqa is a lecturer at al-Azhar University and a member of al-Azhar Center for Dialogue, the al-Azhar Observer for Combating…![Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/syrias-forgotten-pluralism-and-w-187x137.jpg)
Syria’s forgotten pluralism and why it matters today
By Andrea Williams | (The Conversation) | - - The Syrian Civil War has been raging for six years. It has killed nearly half a million people and left over 12 million,…![Sharpening Contradictions: ISIL Strikes Egyptian Christians on Palm Sunday](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/04/sharpening-contradictions-isil-s-187x137.jpg)
Sharpening Contradictions: ISIL Strikes Egyptian Christians on Palm Sunday
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Daesh (ISIS, ISIL) claimed responsibility Sunday for two suicide bombings at Christian churches in Lower Egypt on Palm Sunday, which left over 40…![Sectarian Tensions Flare in Egypt as Christians flee ISIL in Sinai](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/03/sectarian-tensions-flare-in-egyp-187x137.jpg)
Sectarian Tensions Flare in Egypt as Christians flee ISIL in Sinai
By Brian Whitaker | (Al-Bab.com) | - - Several hundred Egyptian Christians have fled their homes in North Sinai over the last few days following a series of murders attributed to supporters…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/02/pj1-1-187x137.jpg)
Pope Francis Says Building a Wall ‘Not a Christian Gesture’
TeleSur | - - "A Christian can never say 'I'll make you pay for that.' Never! That is not a Christian gesture," said Pope Francis. Pope Francis said Wednesday that society should…![The Pope Says Yes to Palestine: Embassy Opens in Vatican](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/the-pope-says-yes-to-palestine-e-187x137.jpg)
The Pope Says Yes to Palestine: Embassy Opens in Vatican
TeleSur | - - On Saturday Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet Pope Francis to inaugurate Palestine’s first embassy to the Holy See ahead of Paris peace talks. On Saturday Palestine will…![Wealthy Muslim raised 85′ tall Christmas Tree: Supporting Iraqi Christians, Forgetting Nat’l Anguish](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/wealthy-muslim-raised-85-tall-ch-187x137.jpg)
Wealthy Baghdad Muslim raised 85′ tall Christmas Tree in Solidarity
NewsBeat Social | (Video News report) | - - "A Muslim businessman in Iraq put up an 85-foot-tall Christmas tree in Baghdad to show solidarity with Iraqi Christians and help Iraqis "forget…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/madabajrdn-1-187x137.jpg)
Top Five ways Jesus was not White
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Given the alarming rise of white nationalism in the United States and the ways in which it is often entangled with Christian nationalism,…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/12/ababasiyatw-1-187x137.png)
Life under the Junta: Deadly Explosion at Cairo’s Coptic Christian Cathedral Kills 25
TeleSur | - - The Coptic cathedral explosion has reportedly killed 25 people and injured dozens more. A crowd gathered outside Cairo city’s biggest Coptic Christian cathedral Sunday morning chanting, "Tell the…![Woman on SF Train Verbally Abuses Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/woman-on-sf-train-verbally-abuse-187x137.jpg)
Woman demeans Christian Assyrian-American as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking Jesus’ Language
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus. Although the New Testament survives in koine Greek, likely it had an Aramaic substrate. The Gospels…![Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/egypt-new-church-law-discriminat-187x137.jpg)
Egypt: New Church Law Discriminates Against Christians
By Human Rights Watch | - - Authorities Fail to Prevent, Punish Violent Attacks (Tunis) – A long-awaited new law maintains restrictions over the construction and renovation of churches and discriminates against…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/galtung-187x137.jpg)
The Violent Christian West should drop Islamophobia and work on itself
By Johan Galtung | (Inter Press Service) | - - ALICANTE, Spain (IPS) - Watching Christianity nearly a century–fundamentalist Christians fighting ritualistic Christians fighting secularism, generally moving fundamentalism–>ritualism–>secularism–maybe the same for Islam?…![Pope: Pollution, Carbon Emissions a Sin & Global Warming to harm the Poor](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/09/pope-pollution-carbon-emissions-187x137.jpg)
Pope: Pollution, Carbon Emissions a Sin & Global Warming to harm the Poor
By Nika Knight, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | - - Humans are turning the planet into a 'polluted wasteland full of debris, desolation, and filth,' says Pope Francis "The world's poor, though…![Pope and French Muslims try Muslim-Christian outreach instead of ‘War on Terror’ Polarization](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/pope-and-french-muslims-try-musl-187x137.jpg)
Pope and French Muslims try Muslim-Christian outreach instead of ‘War on Terror’ Polarization
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - AFP reported from the papal airplane on Pope Francis's remarks about Islam in the wake of the brutal murder of an elderly priest…![Is Religion really Driving Middle East Violence?](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/07/is-religion-really-driving-middl-187x137.jpg)
Is Religion really Driving Middle East Violence?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Pew Research has released a report saying that "As a whole, the region continued to have the highest levels of religious hostilities in…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/450px-Lebanon.geohive-1-187x137.gif)
Syrian War Overflows: Radical Salafis attack Christian Village in Lebanon
Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - A wave of suicide bombings was launched by four radical attackers struck al-Qaa, a largely Christian Lebanese village on the border with Syria on…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/pelham-1-187x137.jpg)
Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East
by JOSEPH RICHARD PREVILLE and JULIE POUCHER HARBIN | ( ISLAMiCommentary) | - - Column » ‘By the Book’ with Joseph Preville How did the rise of nation-states in the 20th century…![UNESCO: “Deepest Concerns” for Mideast Christianity after Daesh/ISIL Razes oldest Iraqi Monastery](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/unesco-deepest-concerns-for-mide-187x137.jpg)
UNESCO: “Deepest Concerns” for Mideast Christianity after Daesh/ISIL Razes oldest Iraqi Monastery
UNESCO | (Media Services) | - - “I express my deepest concerns after the destruction of the Monastery of St Elijah. It was the oldest Christian monastery in Iraq and an invaluable…![For Iraqi Minorities, ‘Immigration No Longer A Choice, It’s Inevitable’](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701045345im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/01/for-iraqi-minorities-immigration-187x137.jpg)