Bethlehem’s Beleaguered ChristiansJanuary 14, 2020 — By Linda Burkle, Ph.D O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie. Just a few short weeks ago, across time zones and languages, the sound of this...
State-Sponsored Church Closures and Religious Discrimination in AlgeriaDecember 23, 2019 — By guest contributor James Knight In the contemporary age of religious and ideological radicalism, the church has faced growing challenges to its growth in historically non-Christian regions, particularly in the...
Blasphemy Laws in the WestDecember 14, 2019 — By guest contributor Peyton Millea The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom released a report in 2017 on blasphemy laws around the world. At that time, seventy-one countries had these...
Will The “North Korea of Africa” Truly Open Up?November 22, 2019 — By Benjamin Harbaugh The small African country of Eritrea sits nestled on the coast of the Red Sea. Roughly the size of Pennsylvania, Eritrea changed colonial hands after World War...
H.R. 640 Draws Attention to the Issue of Christian PersecutionNovember 8, 2019 — By guest contributor Peyton Millea In recent years, cases of Christian persecution around the world have captured the attention of all of those to whom religious freedom matters deeply. We...
For a Study BibleNovember 4, 2019 — By Benjamin Harbaugh As I stepped onto the tarmac at the José Martí International Airport, I said a short prayer. I, along with my wife and a friend, had just...
Chinthe and Crescent: Ongoing Religious Struggles in Western MyanmarSeptember 11, 2019 — By guest contributor James Knight Publicly understood better as a borderland state between the Asian giants of China and India and the smaller states of Indo-China to the Southeast, Myanmar...
Blockchain Technology: An Economic System for International Development & SustainabilityAugust 29, 2019 — By John Cosenza & John T. Pinna Introduction From July 16-18 2019, the second annual Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom brought together hundreds of international delegates united under the common...
New State Department Report Shows Persecution of Christians in Egypt Getting WorseAugust 21, 2019 — By Peter Burns and Avalon McKinney The State Department recently released its major, annual International Religious Freedom report documenting the status of religious freedom in nations around the world. The...
The Alienable Right: The Reliance of Human Rights on Natural LawJuly 9, 2019 — By Colton Grellier Modern legal thought in most western countries is incompatible with the idea of universal human rights. We’ve reached the point in our legal evolution, if you...
Iran-Backed Militias and Political Division Making it Hard for Religious Minorities to Return Home in IraqJuly 5, 2019 — By Peter Burns Diverse expressions of Christianity have flourished in Northern Iraq for almost two millennia. The Christian population represents several denominations and constitutes one of the largest minority groups...
O Big Brother, Where Art Thou: Iranian Human Rights and the Women of White WednesdayJune 15, 2019 — By Colton Grellier It’s nothing new for totalitarian regimes to recruit their people to spy on each other. In the modern era, the French Revolutionary government eagerly accepted gossip...
Classifying Religious Persecution to Implement Meaningful ChangeApril 15, 2019 — By John Cosenza & John Pinna In 1998 the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) was signed into law to combat the growing concern of religious persecution across the globe. The...
The Amman Message: Addressing Islam’s Contemporary CrisisApril 1, 2019 — By John Cosenza & John Pinna Introduction In April 2019 over 300 men, women and children were killed across three cities in Sri Lanka, many of whom were peacefully observing...
