Christian refugees who have fled persecution in their home countries now face the same fate in Sweden.
Jacob RudolfssonMarch 9, 2016
President Obama lectured, “‘Never again’ is a challenge to defend the fundamental right of free people and free nations to exist in peace and security.” Perhaps “never mind” is more apt.
Alan DowdMarch 7, 2016
Terry Ascott’s solution for the Middle East tramples over one of the region’s most sacred cows: Redraw the map.
Jayson CasperMarch 4, 2016
The Marrakesh Declaration is a good—albeit late—start. Political and religious leaders in the Middle East’s Muslim-majority nations have much ground to cover to protect religious minorities. Shiites are targeted in Sunni-majority nations, Sunnis in Shiite-majority nations, and Christians virtually everywhere in the Middle East.
Alan DowdFebruary 17, 2016
Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church clearly have a close relationship, but their foreign policy in Syria is flawed.
Mark MeltonFebruary 10, 2016
At the Church of England’s General Synod last November, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby delivered one of the most rousing calls to a truly Christian realistic approach to the civil war in Syria and the rise of Islamic radicalism in recent memory.
Daniel StrandFebruary 3, 2016
Just war aims at peace. As Augustine argued, “Every man seeks peace by waging war, but no man seeks war by making peace.” We do not fight war for its own sake, or for revenge, profit, or prestige. The only conceivable rationale for waging war is to create a world of better, deeper, more lasting peace than the one that led to war in the first place.
Paul D. MillerJanuary 21, 2016
With American planes bombing Islamic State targets and Russian planes bombing the non-Islamic State targets, we are now supporting Putin’s aggression in Syria by eliminating all Sunni Arab opponents of the Assad regime.
Robert CarleJanuary 12, 2016
Bad stuff will continue to happen around the world in 2016. But there are good reasons to be optimistic.
Gideon StraussJanuary 8, 2016
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