I Knew Which Version of This Story I Wanted Before I Knew Any of the Facts
Two pastors detained in Texas, two accounts of why, and the speed at which I decided which one to believe.
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He Went Back to Look at His Family's Land. Fifteen Days Later They Let Him Out.
Nihad Hassan pastors a Kurdish congregation in Beirut. He went home to see what was left of his family's property. Police held him fifteen days and never filed a charge.
New York Did Not Lose in Court. It Agreed to Wait.
The July 30 order protecting four orders of Catholic nuns was entered by consent. That distinction is the whole story.
Seven Men Went to a Child's Birthday Party. Six Villages Lost Their Churches.
A birthday party for a five year old in Dindori ended with seven men serving five years and six village congregations shut.
Our News Has a Blind Spot, and It Is Shaped Like 388 Million People
This week a scholar did something uncomfortable. He counted.
Greg Cochran, a fellow at International Christian Concern, ran searches across the big Christian news outlets to see how often they cover the persecution of Christians, compared with everything else they cover. He is upfront that the counts are indicative, not
The Prison Has a Priest. The 106 Christians Inside Have Not Had a Mass in Months.
The document is polite. That is the first thing to understand about it.
A Cairo lawyer named Said Fayez addressed a public appeal to officials of Egypt’s National Security Agency. It does not protest anyone’s innocence. It does not denounce the state. It asks for one thing, a
The New Ten Commandments Lawsuit Runs on Laws Christians Wrote. That Is the Whole Point.
Three mothers from the Houston area walked into a Harris County courthouse at the end of July and asked a judge to take the Ten Commandments off their children’s classroom walls before school starts in mid August. One of them is raising her children without religion. One is raising