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Home: Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Persecution: LINKS_PAGEArticles:India's Newest Martyrs - Anto Akkara"Do you want Christ or your life?" the mob leaders demanded of the Nayaks and five other members of the Nayak family. Unfazed, the brothers replied, "Christ is everything for us." Read more... Introduction - Their Blood Cries Out: The Untold Story of Persecution Again - Michael HorowitzThe mounting persecution of Christians eerily parallels the persecution of Jews, my people, during much of Europe's history. Today, minority Christian communities have become chosen scapegoats in radical Islamic and remnant Communist regimes, where they are demonized and caricatured through populist campaigns of hate and terror. Read more... Iraq’s Christians are being martyred - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe blood of the martyrs is being poured out in Iraq, an ancient land of Christian witness. Read more... Is Tolerance a Virtue? - Donald DeMarcoTolerance, of itself, is not a virtue. Read more... Islam and Us - Brad MinerThere was a time when Islam was an historical, literary, or cinematic curiosity with little or no purchase on the American imagination and no measurable impact on our lives. Read more... Islam: The Appeal and the Peril - Donald DeMarcoSome Muslim scholars, such as Mirza Ghulam Ahmed, have interpreted the concept of a Holy War, or Jihad, as a personal striving for righteousness. Nonetheless, the incident of violent Islamic Jihads throughout history, especially against Christians, is cause for deep concern. Read more... It’s 1938 again - Charles KrauthammerLast week Bernard Lewis, America's dean of Islamic studies, who just turned 90 and remembers the 20th century well, confessed that for the first time he feels it is 1938 again. Read more... John Paul II Refutes Deepest Prejudice Against Christianity - POPE JOHN PAUL IIThe prejudice of prejudices dominant at the end of the century is against Christianity in general, and the message of the Catholic Church in particular and concerns the temptation to reduce the Gospel to an ethical system, complete with prohibitions and impersonal precepts, but devoid of love. Read more... Keeping the Faith: Religion, Freedom, and International Affairs - Paul MarshallThe habit of ignoring the factor of religion in human life and international affairs is all too common in the West. Read more... Killing Christians, in the name of the Prophet - Michael CorenThe bomb that killed at least 21 Egyptian Christians on New Year’s morning was packed with sharpened metal, iron balls and razor wire. Read more... Legal Persecution - Father James V. Schall, S.J.Catholics have little legal future in this country except as a narrow, strictly defined sect. Read more... Lies, Damned Lies and Dan Brown: Fact-checking Angels & Demons - Steven D. GreydanusIn a Q&A billed as an “interview” on his own website, Brown writes “My goal is always to make the character’s [sic] and plot be so engaging that readers don’t realize how much they are learning along the way.” Or how much misinformation they’re absorbing. Read more... Living within the truth - Archbishop Charles Chaput, O.F.M. Cap.Archbishop Charles Chaput provides a wide-ranging commentary on the role of the Church in today's world and calls upon Catholics in America and in Europe, to resist the world's intolerance of Christianity. Read more... Lord Have Mercy: A review of God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything - Ross DouthatEvery talented writer is entitled to be a bore on at least one subject, but where religion is concerned Christopher Hitchens abuses the privilege. Read more... Maria Monk - Robert P. LockwoodAnti-Catholic newspapers were flourishing in the United States by the mid-1830s thanks to the wide appeal of a new genre: convent horror stories. Read more... Marking evil’s deepest roots - Father Raymond J. de SouzaWe so cavalierly use the past for our present purposes that it is remarked when someone demurs from doing so. Pope Benedict XVI went to Auschwitz last Sunday and delivered an address that was as breathtaking in its scope as it was heartrending in its poignancy. Read more... Martyrs of the Century - LLEWELLYN H. ROCKWELL JR.The assumption of most intellectuals and their media echo chamber is that believers, particularly Christians, are a danger to society and to liberty. Read more... Mention God? Don't you dare - Ben ShapiroBrittany McComb, valedictorian of Foothill High School in Clark County, Nevada, stood up at her graduation and began to speak. A few paragraphs into her speech, school administrators cut off McComb's microphone. Read more... Moral Clarity in Gaza - Charles KrauthammerSome geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. Read more... Moscow’s Assault on the Vatican - Lt. General Ion Mihai PacepaThe Soviet Union was never comfortable living in the same world with the Vatican. The most recent disclosures document that the Kremlin was prepared to go to any lengths to counter the Catholic Church’s strong anti-Communism. Read more... Mugabe's Roman Holiday - Anne ApplebaumWith an unerring sense of timing, President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe arrived in Rome yesterday, thereby demonstrating the profound limitations of international diplomacy. Read more... Mumbai's The Word - Theodore DalrympleI once stayed at the Taj Mahal in Bombay (as it was then still called). I didn't enjoy it as much as I might have done, because I was recovering from the hepatitis I had contracted in the South Seas. Read more... Muzzling in the Name of Islam - Paul MarshallRepressive laws, supplemented and reinforced by terrorists, vigilantes and mob violence, are a fundamental barrier to open discussion and dissent. Read more... My Canada includes O Canada - Rex MurphyInclusive: adjective describing the act of halting, shutting down or banning any halfway normal practice or event enjoyed by a whole lot of people over a very long time because one or two people, now, don't like it. e.g., The company stopped sending out "Merry Christmas" cards because it wanted to be inclusive. Read more... News that's fit to print - Father George RutlerOne assumes that The New York Times would have been glad to receive an Op-Ed article from the new Archbishop of New York. Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 [>>] Related Categories:Pages Updated On: Thu Feb 09 2012 - 20:02:47
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