By Jonathon Van Maren It is difficult to get surprised by the mainstream media’s utter ignorance of religion, but last week I spotted a headline that almost seemed to be an intentional parody of that fact. It was an Associated Press headlineby Nicole Winfield and Colleen Barry, on an article intended to helpfully give context…
By Jonathon Van Maren Following a brutal attack by Islamic State gunmen on a bus full of Egyptian Coptic Christians on two buses near a monastery in Minya on Friday that resulted in seven deaths and at least seven other casualties (some of them children), Egypt’s interior ministry reported yesterday that nineteen Islamist militants connected…
By Jonathon Van Maren As Western nations rapidly become more hostile to Christianity, it is good to remember that—although the increasing discrimination and marginalization Christians face here in the West is worsening—that compared to what Christians face the world over, what is happening here does not (in comparison) rise to the level of persecution. I…