Vengeance Was Theirs: Armenia Honors Christian Assassins, Complicates Path to Peace
Surveying the scene on a rainy day in Berlin, the Protestant gunman recognized his target. Living hidden under an assumed name in the Weimar Republic, the once-famous official exited his apartment, was shot in the neck, and fell in a pool of blood. For many, the 1921 killing vindicated the blood of thousands. Neither were…
Sola Scripturas: Can Evangelicals Befriend the ‘Protestant Reformers of Islam’?
If one pictures “radical Islam,” chances are the image resembles Osama bin Laden, Boko Haram in Nigeria, or the ISIS fighters of Iraq and Syria. And the connotation is that they are out to kill—or at least to turn the world into an Islamic caliphate. They are known as Salafis: Muslims who bypass accrued tradition…
Tim Keller Changed Church Planting, from City to City
CT interviewed church planters in Barcelona, Beirut, Chennai, Hanoi, Melbourne, Quezon City, Recife, and Vienna about their respective city’s distinctive charms and challenges and how they are contextualizing the gospel there, all with this question in mind: To what extent has Keller’s approach to church planting influenced their ministry? Marwan Aboul-Zelof in Beirut, Lebanon Beirut…
US Rates Religious Freedom of China, Iran, Russia Among 199 Nations
For the last 25 years, the United States has promoted global fidelity to its First Amendment. In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed the International Religious Freedom Act (IRFA) into law, mandating yearly reports to detail the respect given to this fundamental right in every nation of the world. Not every nation is pleased. “We are…
How Should We Then Live Among Muslims? Four Arab Christian Views
Two Middle East nations share a city named Tripoli. They share little else, apart from a Phoenician heritage and mutually near-unintelligible dialects of Arabic. One of their starkest contrasts concerns freedom of religion. Libya sentenced six Christians to death earlier this month for converting from Islam. Lebanon, despite its sectarianism enshrined in politics, allows free…
As Churches Offer Refuge, Sudanese Christians Refine Theology of War
Hajj Atiya, an elderly Sudanese woman living in Khartoum, was already ill. And then the war started. “The planes bombed from above, the bullets were flying below,” she said. “We stayed in our house, afraid, while all outside was boom, boom, boom.” All she had in the house was flour, to bake bread. At least…
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