(A church stands in Taybeh on Sept. 8, 2026. Taybeh is a historic Palestinian Christian village east of Ramallah, known for its churches and centuries-old Christian…
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Charlie Kirk has always been a polarizing figure — an activist who refuses to stay quiet, a man who built a platform to amplify voices…
But there are large divides between Catholics who attend Mass weekly, and those who don’t, in what they want from the church By Patricia Tevington…
An AI picture of “Pope Donald Trump” is put on the official White House page on X and Instagram. * There is an old idiom at…
Justice for Jews from Arab Countries uncovers the systematic displacement and cultural destruction of Syria’s Jewish population, and tells the story of a community even…
ROME – In February 2014, a scene unfolded in Rome that struck many observers as akin to the end of history. A conservative German prefect of…
Yazidi woman Fawzia Amin Sido (R), who was kidnapped by ISIS in Iraq in 2014 and then transferred to Gaza, Oct. 3, 2024, seen back in…
İkra Kuyumcu, 23, graduated with honors from the air force academy, Ebru Eroğlu, 24, from the land forces academy and Şeyda Yıldırım, 22, from the naval…
Splendid televised ceremony in Lebanon last night, at the seat of the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke of the Beatification of the great Estephan El Douaihy (1630-1704),…
Carine Bassili, devout Christian living in US, hopes her music will build bridges between her people and Israelis: ‘You cannot have peace before having healing and…
In an interview, Julie d’Andurain talks about her biography of General Henri Gouraud and his experiences in Syria and Lebanon. After studying history at the Sorbonne…
(Participants at the R20 Princeton UDHR Conference) Last month marked the 75th anniversary of the historical Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This document was drafted in part…
Will the Oslo accords survive the war? https://youtu.be/uo6fkaK5eqs?t=489 What will the security architecture look like after the war? Dr. Boms is a research fellow at Moshe…
By N. Mozes* Introduction Although it has been five years since the Islamic State (ISIS) was defeated in Iraq, it appears that the danger…
A U.S.-sanctioned, Iran-backed militia leader aims to sideline the country’s Chaldean Patriarch and take over billions of dollars’ worth of Christian property On July…
(Mohammad Abolghassem Doulabi, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s special representative in clerical affairs) A senior Iranian cleric says around 50,000 of Iran’s 75,000 mosques are closed, showing…
(A clay model from Mesopotamia, dated ∼1800 BCE, shows a couple kissing. The original is kept at the British Museum.) Sources from Mesopotamia contextualize the emergence…
(Left: Baruch Goldstein (Source: Falafel Café). Right: Photos from the Yom Kippur War, known to the Arabs as the Ramadhan War (Source: Wikimedia Commons). Some…
Taliban bans on women’s education and employment by foreign aid organisations operating in Afghanistan are having unintended consequences. The bans have sparked calls for reform of…
(Ukrainian Greek Catholic Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk) ROME – Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, has opposed a draft bill…
The Supreme Leader’s representative in the city of Karaj says the reason for low precipitation in the country is a lack of hijab observance of hijab,…
(Artist’s impression of the maritime drone (USV) attack on Sevastopol. Although the Russian Navy was able to destroy some of the drones, several got through. More…
by Carol Glatz AWALI, Bahrain — Traveling as a “sower of peace” to the Kingdom of Bahrain, Pope Francis further strengthened ties with the Muslim world…
How two researchers got to the heart of a polling problem: the skewing effect of fear. Growing up in my household, secular was a slur, the thing…
Istanbul- On his 4-day tour to the United States, CHP Leader visited DAWN, one of the intellectual centers of the Arab Spring reputed as a Muslim…
A plastic skull is displayed at a check point on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 25, 2022. (Credit: AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd.) ROME…
Coincidence or not, the Israeli-Arab-American Negev Summit took place yesterday, Sunday, on March 27, the anniversary date of the aborted Arab Peace Initiative in Beirut in…
Rivals in the Gulf: Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Bin Bayyah, and the Qatar-UAE Contest Over the Arab Spring and the Gulf Crisis (Routledge, 2021) goes to key questions of…
Dear Friends, In the wake of Vladimir Putin’s unconscionable and horrendously destructive invasion of Ukraine, Orthodox Christians across the globe must face a difficult question:…
(photo caption: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople signed a decree on January 5, 2019, granting autocephaly, or independence, to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine, ending more…
Long banned, Christmas has finally, at least tacitly, arrived in Saudi Arabia; just don’t use the name in marketing or be ostentatious about your tree. …
To avoid the worst outcomes, Washington needs to assiduously enforce any deals with the new Afghan leadership, cooperate effectively with other world powers, and explain to…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In a sign of the times, Turkish schoolbooks have replaced Saudi texts as the focus of criticism of supremacist and intolerant curricula in the…
Israel election results: Letting Gantz form Israel’s next government would be poetic justice As a state and as a society, Israel is a sick creature.…
In an interview, German filmmaker Volker Schlöndorff recalls the movie he shot in Lebanon at the height of its civil war. In November 1980, filmmaker Volker…
Jews and Muslims make peace, but this endangered minority lacks a regional voice. The announcement that Israel would normalize ties with Muslim-majority Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan…
This op-ed was written by WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps member Andrea Mifano, was orginally published on the Brazilian Jewish news website Kadima in Portuguese on 3 December 2020. Until the…
Morocco’s King Mohammed VI is seen at Essaouira’s ‘House of Memory’ in January 2020 in a photo provided by the Moroccan Royal Palace – Moroccan Royal Palace…
Public opinion polling in the Arab world suggests that autocratic leaders like Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and his UAE counterpart, Mohammed bin Zayed, have…
INVESTIGATION – Tibetans, Uighurs and citizens of Hong Kong say they are being closely watched and harassed by China in France, the country which first developed…
Faezeh Hashemi, a former Iranian lawmaker and the daughter of one of the founders of the Islamic Republic says Iran is neither a religious government, nor…
Syria’s announcement of its first COVID-19 case highlights the public health threat posed by war zones that produce millions of refugees and displaced persons living in…
By Dawn Stover In this interview, Bulletin contributing editor Dawn Stover speaks with Fred Kaplan about his just-published book, The Bomb: Presidents, Generals, and the Secret History of Nuclear War (Simon…
Titled ‘Yemen: From Sheba to Jerusalem’, On display are numerous rare artifacts, some of which have never been seen by the public before, as well as…
“Every year I pray they will give me a permit so I can celebrate Christmas and see my family.” By LELA GILBERT Since it’s Christmas and…
One hundred years after the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, which set the terms for the end of World War I, the conflicting views that were…
In the introduction to his 2006 book “The God Delusion,” author Richard Dawkins boldly declares his goal: “If this book works as I intend, religious readers who…
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Hebrew University announced Wednesday that it had obtained a “magnificent” collection of Albert Einstein’s manuscripts, shedding new light on the mind and…
Dudu Tassa’s new album, El-Hajar, (Exile) is winning over listeners in Iraq, where his grandfather and great uncle were once two of the Arab world’s most…
Francis’ words on the flight back from his trip to Panama: “We need an objective education, without ideologies” DOMENICO AGASSO JR ABOARD THE PANAMA-ROME FLIGHT …