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In the wake of Hamas’s October 7 attacks on Israel and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in Gaza and beyond, the ...
The U.N. General Assembly has brought high-level officials together to promote a two-state solution to the decades-old ...
In a wide‑ranging interview with “EWTN News Nightly,” Cardinal Fernando Filoni underscored that the Middle East remains an ...
We need morality based on social cooperation, not religion To the woman who believes that our country’s problems would be solved with the “basic morality that comes from religion,” I have a ...
A team of archaeologists have unearthed what is believed to be the long-forgotten Byzantine settlement of Tharais, offering significant new insights into the history of Christianity in the Middle East ...
The Druze are a prominent religious community of more than a million people spread across Syria, Lebanon and Israel, who for centuries have sought to preserve a distinct identity. In Lebanon, an ...
The latest firestorm to erupt in the Middle East occurred just north of Ramallah—Jewish settlers supposedly attempted to burn down Taybeh’s historic Church of St. George.
Hamid is clear that something else of importance is similarly not happening, the end of religion in the Middle East. As he puts it, “religion isn’t going anywhere in the Middle East.” ...
Father Tony Boutros is a Catholic priest in Sweida, southern Syria. He is no stranger to ethnic unrest; in 2015, he was kidnapped during a spate of abductions of Christians in the country.
Iran has steadily expanded its strategic influence across the Middle East in large part due to its cultivation of a network of foreign co-religionist militant clients. Those clients have enabled Iran ...