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3 min read 2022-03-04 21:30:28

A Hilltop Fortress and the Origins of Ancient Israel

View of Mt. Adir in the Upper Galilee. Credit: Avi1111 Dr. Avishai Teicher, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A lonely and little-known hilltop

4 min read 2022-01-28 21:30:56

A section of the Assyrian siege ramp as seen on the Lachish relief from Sennacherib’s palace at Nineveh.Credit: Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin

3 min read 2021-12-09 20:00:00

There’s no better news than the coming of Israel’s king—except of course the news that he’s coming again. That Jesus Christ’s two advents

4 min read 2021-04-02 23:33:12

One important theme of the pontificate of Pope Francis has been a message of hope to Christians in the Middle East and Africa that they are not

3 min read 2021-03-11 16:00:00

Pope Francis’ visit to Iraq was the first of its kind in papal history. The remaining Christians in Iraq long anticipated his trip, including to

2 min read 2021-02-16 22:49:35

An Assyrian Christian lost his job after his employer deemed the cross he wore a security risk.George Tannouri, 28, had been working at Zalando

1 min read 2020-12-09 03:04:44

For about a thousand years, mid-600s bc – ad mid 400s, the Egyptians wrote stuff down in both hieroglyphics and Demotic. Egypt was one half of the

5 min read 2020-12-08 16:00:00

Despite the fact that Middle Eastern Christians have suffered multiple genocides, pogroms, and episodes of persecution over the past century, 2020

6 min read 2020-10-30 16:13:16

By Benjamin Welton There is a story (most likely untrue) that begins with a team of European archaeologists overseeing a dig in northern Iraq. They

5 min read 2020-10-26 15:00:00

Extremists are slowly extinguishing of some of the world’s oldest Christian communities, while the world remains largely silent. The Syrian regime

4 min read 2020-10-21 20:38:53

Erdoğan is threatening America’s national security, and the US is letting it happen For decades, America has tolerated genocide denial and

3 min read 2020-04-14 15:00:00

As industries across the US shift into crisis response and find ways to produce ventilators and masks, a Lebanese Christian entrepreneur and member

4 min read 2020-04-12 15:00:00

Today will mark the first time many of us will be unable to worship in church for Easter. However, we should all be grateful for the fact that we

4 min read 2019-11-26 16:00:14

Religious minorities hope the Iraqi protest movement can reshape the country to serve the interests of all Iraqis Demonstrations on the streets of

9 min read 2019-10-14 15:00:14

On the streets of Bakhdida—a Christian village in Iraq’s Nineveh Plains region that is rebuilding after the Islamic State (ISIS) was driven