In a recent speech, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power described the vital interest and critical role the United States has in peacekeeping. Power described how intrastate conflicts can displace vulnerable populations, spill across borders, destabilize neighboring countries, undermine economic progress, reverse democratization and disrupt civil society, allow criminals and repressive regimes to… Read More Blessed are the Peacekeepers?
Check out these recent articles from around the web: Mercy, Part I by Michael Sean Winters: “Most of us Christians grew up with the idea that the God of the Hebrews was an angry God. Certainly, many Christians have conceived him as such. But, Kasper sets out to destroy this myth and largely succeeds.” Part… Read More Around the Web
The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) is once again gaining ground in Iraq. As it increases its control of Iraqi territory, it has engaged in mass atrocities and terrorism, while increasingly implementing its totalitarian vision. Kurdish forces have been resisting the Islamic State’s advance, but were forced to pull back in recent days, exposing more… Read More Fears of Genocide Grow in Iraq
The militant group ISIS, which invaded Iraq from Syria and began seizing control of Iraqi cities several months ago, has systematically persecuted religious and ethnic minorities, forcing many to flee. The terrorist organization imposed Sharia law this past June and recently prevented Christian services from being held in Mosul for the first time 1600 years.… Read More Standing with Iraq’s Christians – And All of Its Persecuted Innocents
In this year’s Time 100, Pope Francis, “a moral leader in word and deed,” is profiled by President Barack Obama. Our Millennial of the Year, Malala Yousafzai, is also profiled: In the face of oppression and bitter injustice, she demands education and opportunity. In the face of violence from the hands of cowards, she refuses… Read More Fighting Injustice: Profiles from the Time 100
Ambassador Samantha Power, U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, on Elie Wiesel Award winner General Roméo Dallaire: “You, General, have stood between the killers and their prey. You have heard the piercing screams of victims, and the deafening silence of a world unable to muster the will to act. You have turned that deadly… Read More Quote of the Day
In a remarkable communiqué, the Assembly of the Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land has put Christian persecution in the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring in the proper perspective. The persecution of Christians in the region is real and gravely serious, but it does not exist in isolation. Other groups are… Read More A Prophetic Rejection of Sectarianism and Defense of Human Rights in the Middle East
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