"Just moments after the new year began, a bomb outside a church in Alexandria killed 21 Coptic Christians. A week later, a Pakistani governor was murdered for standing by a Christian convict. The two cases dramatically illustrate the worsening plight of Christians in the Orient.

A humourous video satirizing some common anti-Semitic stereotypes.

BETHLEHEM: "I spend my evenings at home on the Internet because there is nothing to do here for people our age," said Sally Zaghmout, 19, a student at Bethlehem University

They saw their brethren murdered during Mass and then were bombed in their homes as they mourned. Al-Qaida vowed to hunt them down. Now the Christian community of Iraq, almost as old as the religion itself, is sensing a clear message: It is time to leave.

What if Jesus' birth, not the resurrection, heralded humanity's rebirth at a whole new level? What if we had passed the first phase of our development and were ready to see that we had emerged from the animal world to become something new by being more fully conscious of each oth …

Pro-Israel highlights from Barack Obama's June 4th, 2008 speech to the AIPAC policy conference.

"According to reports by Farsi Christian News Network (FCNN), Iran security police and 'plain clothes' officers invaded a group of more than 70 new believers, interrupting pre-Christmas celebrations.