RUSSIA’S ROLE IN SYRIA TODAY | ARTICLE | 16-04-2020
Disclaimer: The word “coronavirus” does not appear anywhere in this essay. It is a law of life that where any problem of human government is allowed to avoid the world’s attention for any length of time anti-gravity takes over: the worst elements rise to the top. Examples are not hard to find. The clearest of these […]
Read MoreTHE IMMINENT PARTITION AND THE ULTIMATE EXTINCTION OF SYRIA | ARTICLE | 24-02-2020
Wikipedia (the best of friends) describes Syria as “home to diverse ethnic and religious groups.” Conveniently for me, it names the ethnic groups: Syrian Arabs, Kurds, Turkemens Assyrians, Armenians Circasssions and Greeks. Likewise, the religious groups are identified as Sunni Muslims, Shiite Muslims, Alawites, Druzes, Isma’ilis, Mandeans, Shiites, Salafis, and Yazidis. Arabs are the largest […]
Read MoreTHE DISMAL PROSPECT FOR CHRISTIANITY IN EGYPT | ARTICLE | 24-09-2019
Recently, Pope Francis visited Egypt (https://www.osv.com/…/Pope-Francis-preaches-peace-unity-in-Egypt.aspx.) As usual on such occasions, the principals, Pope Francis and President Sisi of Egypt, huddled briefly out of view. The content of their discussion we cannot know, but the published statement for the press and the waiting world afterwards exposes their heartfelt concern for all suffering people everywhere. As […]
Read MoreTHE CHRISTIAN PEOPLE OF THE ARAB WORLD ARE FACING EXTINCTION: (2) The Cases of Iraq and Syria. | ARTICLE | 26-08-2019
Christians have always been seen by their neighbours in the Middle East as People of the Book. Their commitment to reading is founded in devotion to the Hebrew and Greek Scriptures that make up our Bible. While piety certainly drove the ambition of the earliest Christians for access to Scripture, a parallel benefit of literacy […]
Read MoreCHRISTIAN PEOPLE IN THE MIDDLE EAST ARE FACING EXTINCTION | ARTICLE | 13-08-2019
Most people in our part of the world who imagine that they are well-in formed about current affairs are under the impression that the indigenous people of the Middle East are the Arabs, and that where non-Arab communities exist these are the products of European missionary efforts in recent centuries. But this is just one […]
Read MoreCHINA STEPS UP ITS CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHRISTIANITY | ARTICLE | 01-04-2019
The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity. Karl Marx. There is nowhere on earth where the words of the founders of Communism are more nearly ubiquitous and apparently respected than in the People’s Republic of China. Equally, there is […]
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