Tag: islam

The plight of the Copts

— Posted inPersecution — 4 min read

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHvQXfGUBCs&feature=player_embedded] The video above shows raw emotional pain. I could have chosen worse, but I wanted only to convey the distress our brothers are in without exalting the power of the enemy. As it is, it is hard enough to take. The two year […]

The Muslim Street

— Posted inend times, Persecution — 3 min read

I’d like you to go to UNDispatch and read an initial insider reaction to the atrocity in Afghanistan yesterday. The Islamic aspect of the massacre is non-existent, of course (after all, this is the UN), but the conclusion is still germane: it is time […]

A sad day in Pakistan

— Posted incurrent events, Persecution — 4 min read

Yesterday was a sad day for Christians, the nation of Pakistan, and the world. Pakistan’s leading Christian, minister for minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti, was murdered in a hail of bullets as he left for work. Bhatti had worked tirelessly, against the tide, for the rights […]

Said Musa has been released

— Posted incurrent events, Persecution — 2 min read

International Christian Concern is reporting that Said Musa, the Afghani convicted of apostasy and under threat of immanent execution, has been released into US custody and is out of Afghanistan. (See his moving letters a few posts down.) Here’s an excerpt from the Christian […]

The tragedy of lost Egypt

— Posted inUncategorized — 3 min read

I’ve been watching the news from Egypt with a mixture of hope and apprehension, but mostly apprehension. Mubarak finally has stepped down, and he has handed the government over to the army. It is a sad commentary, indeed, that the military is the only […]

Christianity’s radical growth

— Posted inCulture and Society, current events, tweet — 2 min read

There's an excellent article today by Ryan Mauro on the comparative growth rates of Christianity and Islam, and also on the quality of the faith of those who believe. If you live in the West you're probably under the impression that Islam is growing by leaps and bounds. It is - in the West, because of immigration and high birth rates, but that is not the case in the rest of the world.

It’s open season on Christians

— Posted inPersecution — 3 min read

News comes today that five Christians from World Vision relief services were killed execution-style in Pakistan. Two days previous some two hundred Christians – men, women, children and infants – were brutalized and slaughtered in central Nigeria. In Pakistan, these Christians were delivering much-needed […]

America used to be a beacon

— Posted inCulture and Society — 3 min read

Jesus said that "unless a grain of wheat fall to the earth and die, it cannot bear much fruit." The world will never forget Neda, and the Iranian people will never rest until they are free of political and religious tyranny. Through her sacrifice, Neda has already begun to bear incalculable good fruit.

Terrorism, heroes and cowards

— Posted inCulture and Society — 4 min read

But while the American people constantly prove themselves heroes, there are cowards among our ruling elite. These leaders are either more concerned with career than with protecting the nation, or are afraid of the cost of telling the truth, or are too dumb to know the truth.