President Donald Trump has promised to do everything in his power to defend and protect “historic Christian communities of the Middle East.” The United States’ Congress has allocated more than $1.4 billion in funds for refugee assistance and included specific…

“His Beatitude Gregory III Laham has been a tower of faith and hope for Christians in Syria,” says Steve Wagner, President of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church On Saturday, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Melkite Greek Patriarch of…

As Christians around the world inaugurate with Palm Sunday the holiest week of the Christian calendar, together with my fellow board members, with the President of Solidarity with the Persecuted Church and his staff, and above all as a priest…

Name of the Church Denomination Town Current Church Condition Church of the Virgin Mary Syrian Orthodox Bahzani Under Construction St. George’s Church Syrian Orthodox Bahzani Some Damaged St. Ephrem Nunnery Chaldean Baqofah Partially Damaged St. George’s Church Chaldean Baqofah Partially…

The Wall Street Journal’s Yaroslav Trofimov wrote in today’s edition (March 3, 2017) that progress in Geneva on negotiations to end Syria’s six year civil war is impeded because the new administration has not yet settled on its strategy for Syria…

Seventy years ago, on February 8, 1947, the world lost a truly amazing and singular person. She quietly passed from this life in the village of Schio, in northern Italy…a village largely unknown to most of humanity. Those who were…

The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has announced the final victory over the Islamic terrorist organization, Boko Haram. He asserts Boko Haram has been “crushed.” This announcement comes one year after the target date for ending Boko Haram’s reign of…

There are no words to describe the toll of loss — regarding lives extinguished and patrimony destroyed — that the news from the venerable Churches of the East brings into our homes with tragic frequency. The horror of destruction and…

We awoke this morning to the news of a bombing of a church in Cairo, and of a church collapse in Uyo, Nigeria.  Twenty-five were killed in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, a Coptic Christian church, when a…

The Financial Times disclosed today that elements of the Syria opposition – those fighting to remove Syrian president & dictator Bashar al-Assad – are engaged in secret negotiations with Russia, meeting in and moderated by Turkey. The Financial Times quoted one anonymous opposition figure,…