Archive for the 'Middle East' Category
Friday, November 27th, 2015
(Russian Orthodox Cross) While churches in the West usually oppose any kind of war, leaders in the Russian Orthodox Church not only support Putin’s intervention in Syria but look upon it as a ‘Holy War’ to save the Middle Eastern Christians which make up 10% of the population in Syria. Here’s the story from the […]
Filed under: Church and State, Culture & Religion, ISIS, Middle East, Orthodox Church, Russia, Syria
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Monday, September 21st, 2015
Apparently some of our soldiers have actually gotten in trouble for stopping Afghan authorities from raping children. Here’s the story from HotAir: A story breaking over the weekend reveals that our “Afghan allies” have been engaged in a sick practice referred to as “boy play” in the common parlance. This essentially translates into abducting, imprisoning […]
Filed under: Afghanistan, Culture & Religion, Culture Clash, Middle East, Muslim Culture
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Tuesday, May 26th, 2015
A recent poll taken by the Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel shows that 81% of their viewers support ISIS. The popular TV news network which is hosted in Qatar and viewed all over the Muslim world in the Middle East and North Africa asked their Arabic viewers to respond to the following question: “Do you […]
Filed under: Culture & Religion, Foreign Policy, Iraq, ISIS, Islam, Islamic Domination, Islamic Terrorism, Islamist Radicals, Jihad, Middle East, Muslim Culture, New Islamic Caliphate, Obama Administration, Syria
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Friday, May 22nd, 2015
President Erdogan of Turkey recently gave a speech calling on all Turks and Muslims around the world to refocus on re-conquering Jerusalem rather than fighting among themselves. He also continues to push for the establishment of a new Caliphate with himself as the new Sultan. His comments on these issues have not been covered by […]
Filed under: Eschatology, ISIS, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Muslim Culture, New Islamic Caliphate, Turkey
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Thursday, March 19th, 2015
“But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…” Matthew 5:44 We recently posted the video above of Christian child, 10 year old Myriam, forgiving ISIS even though her family had lost everything because of the terrorist group. She said: “I will only ask God to forgive them. Now […]
Filed under: Christian Witness, Culture & Religion, ISIS, Islam and Christianity, Middle East, Ministry of Jesus, Persecution
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2014
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Following its defeat as the last Muslim caliphate in WWI the country of Turkey rose from the ashes as a ‘secular’ nation directed by the military rather than religious leaders. All that began to change when the current pro-Islamist government of Recep Erdogan came to power in 2003. Since then the […]
Filed under: Islam and Christianity, Islamic Intolerance, Middle East, New Islamic Caliphate, Sharia Law, Turkey
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2014
A survey conducted by Pew Research in 14 Muslim countries indicates that the support for radical Islamist groups is declining among Muslims. This probably reflects the fact that most of the time other Muslims are the victims of Islamist group activity. Here’s the story from Pew: As well-publicized bouts of violence, from civil war to […]
Filed under: Islam, Islamic Terrorism, Islamist Radicals, Jihad, Middle East, Muslim Culture
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Monday, March 24th, 2014
The ongoing persecution of Christians around the world continues to be substantially ignored by the media and the Obama administration. Most of the trouble for Christians is happening in Muslim dominated countries which is one of the reasons the MSM in America ignores most of the stories for the fear that the truth will lead […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Attacks on Churches, Islam and Christianity, Islamic Intolerance, Islamic Terrorism, Islamist Radicals, Jihad, Media Bias, Middle East, MSM, MSM and Religion, Obama Administration, Religious Persecution
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Tuesday, January 21st, 2014
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) The foreign minister of the Palestinian Authority made it very clear that his people would never accept the Jewish state of Israel. Here’s the story from The Blaze: The foreign minister for the Palestinian Authority says Palestinians will “never accept under any circumstances” the idea that Israel is a Jewish state, […]
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Israel, Middle East, Obama Administration, Palestinian Territory
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Monday, November 4th, 2013
(R. Khomeini: Wikipedia) Previous posts in this series: -An International ‘War’ on Christians? -An International ‘War’ on Christians?- Part II In the previous two posts we presented the problem which is the persecution of Christians around the world resulting in an average of 100,000 death a year over the last decade. We are attempting […]
Filed under: Attacks on Christianity, Culture & Religion, Iran, Islamist Radicals, Middle East, Religious Persecution
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