Is there a Church of Christ in Iran? There was, once
Officially, fewer than 150,000 of Iran’s 93 million people claim Christianity as their faith, most of them from Armenian and Assyrian backgrounds, according to a…
Middle East
Iranians serve Ukrainians
POYSDORF, AUSTRIA — Bags stuffed with candy. Foil-wrapped crepes filled with chicken salad. Children’s Bibles full of colorful illustrations. Members of a Church of Christ…
Prisoners of hope
The scene was absolutely surreal. Iranian refugees cheered and sang, one of them waving an Israeli flag. Another stood atop a delivery truck, unleashing canisters…
Bibles for Iran? Be ready, ministry urges Christians
Missionaries in Vienna, Austria, launched Eastern European Mission in 1961 to smuggle Bibles in all the languages of the Soviet World — Hungarian, Romanian, Polish…
Iranian Christians cling to faith and hope as they witness attacks
Fear mixed with hope. That’s how Christians from the Middle Eastern nation of Iran described their feelings after a wave of attacks on their homeland…
Israeli Christians grow weary amid rocket attacks
Hezbollah rockets lit up the sky above Nazareth, Israel, on Monday evening as sirens wailed across the city. Windows shook from explosions as the Iron…
Resist the impulse
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — When our preacher began his sermon Sunday morning, he wanted to say something about the Israel-Hamas war but was not sure what…
‘This is Israel’s 9/11’
On the front lines of Israel’s war with Hamas, “we were exposed to an unimaginable, horrific reality,” said a dust-covered, camo-clad Yehuda Bachana in a…
Peace on earth in a land of unrest
TIBERIAS, Israel — An Israeli, a Serbian, a Canadian and an American walk into a Chinese restaurant on the western shore of the Sea of…
After Beirut blast, Christians urged to ‘rise up and build’
They’ve endured decades of wars and countless bombs, but Christ-followers in Lebanon said they have never experienced anything like the explosion that devastated their capital…
