Middle East

Ukip: The First 100 Days and Channel 4 gratuitous anti-Israelism

February 17, 2015
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If you didn't see Channel 4's over-hyped docu-drama Ukip: The First 100 Days, don't bother dashing for C4 On Demand. It is a tedious effort, dramatic dullsville, full of factual economic errors and replete with political clichés of how…

Charles confirms he will be anointed and crowned 'Defender of the Faith'

February 9, 2015
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There has been considerable and worthwhile coverage of 'Building Bridges' - The Sunday Hour interview with The Prince of Wales on the subject of Islamic extremism, radicalisation and the…

"If 100,000 Jews leave, France will no longer be France"

January 13, 2015
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The words of French Prime Minister Manuel Valls echo down the centuries of anti-Semitic Europe, where Jews have been marginalised, persecuted, reviled, expelled and turned to ash in the…

How much UK aid was given to Christian-persecuting countries in 2014?

January 12, 2015
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The most authoritative report on the persecution of Christians around the world has now been released for 2015. The widely respected Open Doors World Watch List is the only annual global survey…

Unbelievers and non-believers must be free to blaspheme with impunity

January 8, 2015
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Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western Christians, will also suffer in the near future.. Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing.. you…

Douglas Alexander champions a Global Envoy for Religious Freedom

December 22, 2014
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"Yet, at this time of great peril, I deeply regret that the British Government seems to be stepping back, rather than stepping up," writes Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander…

Charles – Defender of the persecuted Faith

December 10, 2014
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"God brings him here," said Maijida Nissan, 64, speaking about the visit of the Prince of Wales to the Chaldean Church in England gathered in Acton yesterday, many of…

Real Madrid and the offence of the cross

November 30, 2014
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It was a really tiny cross. Honestly, it was barely noticeable in all that pearly pizzazz and gaudy gold. The Crown of Alfonso XII has been a sacred symbol of…

Canon Andrew White ordered home with $57m bounty on his head

November 26, 2014
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"It's the end for Iraqi Christians," writes Josh Glancy in The Sunday Times, as he recounts the appalling horrors, heartbreaks and sheer despair of Iraq's Christians, many thousands of…

Prince Charles: Defender of faith, freedom and religious liberty

November 5, 2014
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"It is an indescribable tragedy that Christianity is now under such threat in the Middle East," says the Prince of Wales in a video message to mark the launch…

While thousand are persecuted and martyred, the Church ponders sexuality

October 15, 2014
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Apparently, ISIS/ISIL/Islamic State has declared war on Christians. The latest cover of their propaganda magazine Dabiq shows the black jihadi flag flying above St Peter's in Rome. It is…

Politics and Religion at the Conservative Party Conference

October 1, 2014
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Melanie Phillips writes: I chaired a most interesting fringe meeting discussion this lunchtime at the Tory party conference on the intersection between religion and politics. Unfortunately Sajid Javid, the Secretary…

21 bishops now demand aid and asylum for Iraqi Christians

September 15, 2014
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It is, sadly, now too late to save Mosul. But there is a further letter in today's Times demanding Government action to aid or offer asylum to the persecuted, suffering…

God bless America: Obama pledges to "degrade, and ultimately destroy" Islamic State

September 11, 2014
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13 years ago today.. We remember. Almost in commemoration of the image of that apocalypse, President Obama has made the speech he really ought to have made two years ago.…

Eric Pickles: Jihad will be defeated by the "guiding principles of the English Reformation"

September 5, 2014
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Since Sayeeda Warsi left the Government, the Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP has assumed direct responsibility for matters of faith. They were, of course, always under the aegis as Secretary…

The flaw in the Fatwa on the so-called Islamic State

September 2, 2014
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This really is quite magnificent. To those who insist Muslims cannot or will not integrate with or conform to British values, customs and traditions, this fatwa (= religious opinion; not…

Archbishop of Mosul: "Your liberal and democratic principles are worth nothing here"

August 19, 2014
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The translated words of Emil Nona, Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Mosul, now exiled in Erbil (via Rorate Caeli): "Our sufferings today are the prelude of those you, Europeans and Western…

Bishop of Leeds accuses Cameron of turning his back Iraqi Christians

August 17, 2014
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It hasn't been for the want of trying. Numerous blog posts have been written, emails and DMs exchanged, and meeting with senior ministers held. This blog has been at the…

Why can bishops organise to condemn foodbanks but not genocide?

August 12, 2014
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After the Holocaust, the whole of civilisation united behind two simple words: "Never Again". If the free world is not prepared to eradicate the Islamist evil spreading over the…