United Nations adopts September 15th as International Day of Democracy
On November 8th 2007 UN declared 15th of September International Day of Democracy read more...
 

المالـــح: نحـــو ثقافـــة أحاديـــة أو تقويـــض للحريـــات ؟
جرت العادة خلال 18 عاما الماضية على ان تستخدم السلطات اللبنانية جهاز الامن العام لمراقبة حرية التعبير الفني، لا سيما المطبوعات الاجنبية من كتب ومجلات وافلام وأعمال فنية قبل توزيعها في الاسواق اللبنانية. read more...
 

Some Lebanese who fled to Israel in 2000 have returned, more expected
Dozens of Lebanese who fled to Israel following the May 2000 withdrawal of the Israeli army from South Lebanon have returned read more...
 

Interview with ex-prisoner in Syrian Jails - Ali Abu Dehn
Ex prisoner in Syrian Jails - Ali Abu Dehn telling his experience. read more...
 

Interview with SOLIDE founder: Ghazi Aad
SOLIDE founder Ghazi Aad talking about the Lebanese missing and detained in Syrian prisons. read more...
 

"الحق الانساني" و"عائلات المعتقلين" ردا على الاسد: لحل انساني بمعزل عن السياسة
اعتبرت مؤسسة "الحق الانساني" و "لجنة عائلات المعتقلين في السجون السورية" ان كلام الرئيس السوري بشار الاسد عن قضية المعتقلين ونفيه وجود اي معتقل سياسي لبناني في السجون السورية لا ينطبق ابداً مع الوقائع الملموسة والقرائن والادلة الدامغة التي قدمتها السلطات السورية مرات عدة read more...
 

Christian Solidarity International Press Release
Christian Solidarity International Press Release. 267 African Sudanese slaves were freed from captivity in a CSI-sponsored liberation action spanning the end of February and first days of March. read more...
 

المحكمة الجنائية الدولية تصدر مذكرة باعتقال الرئيس السوداني عمر البشير
أكد مدعي المحكمة الجنائية الدولية لويس مورينو اوكامبو ان الحكومة السودانية ملزمة بتنفيذ مذكرة الإعتقال التي أصدرتها المحكمة باعتقال الرئيس السوداني عمر البشير. جاء ذلك في مؤتمر صحفي لأوكامبو تعليقا على هذا القرار. read more...
 

Christians Fleeing Persecution in Iraq
Christians continue to flee Iraq because of religious persecution, even as some Iraqi church leaders are calling on their compatriots to return home. read more...
 

Iraqi Bishop Decries Kurd Efforts to Buy Off Church
In an exclusive interview with Newsmax, a Chaldean bishop decried Kurdish efforts to buy off church leaders to gain control over the Nineveh province in northern Iraq, where mostly Christians and Sunni Muslims live. read more...
 

Coptic Christians forced to convert to Islam or emigrate
As the Worldwide Anglican Communion (with a few exceptions) gathers to argue over women and homosexuals, which appears to be occupying all the column inches and all the blog pages being persecuted for their beliefs. read more...
 

مؤتمر عن المسيحيين في العراق
برعاية البطريرك الماروني الكاردينال مار نصرالله بطرس صفير، بطريرك انطاكيا وسائر المشرق، ممثلاً براعي ابرشية انطلياس المارونية المطران يوسف بشارة، عقدت الكنائس المشرقية في لبنان (الكلدان، الاشوريين، السريان الأرثوذكس، السريان الكاثوليك)، بالتعاون مع جامعة سيدة اللويزة مؤتمراً بحثياً حول الوجود المسيحي في العراق بعنوان: "حضور الى احتضار...ام الى قيامة؟" read more...
 

Mideast Christians to discuss religious woes
As the Christian population dwindles in the Middle East, members of the community from around the world are gathering in Southfield this weekend to discuss how to improve their plight and stabilize their presence. read more...
 

Coptic Woman Wins Landmark Case, Custody of Children
A Christian woman has won a landmark case in Egypt to retain custody of her children despite the father's conversion to Islam in what activists hope will be a watershed decision to build tolerance among the embattled religious groups. The woman, Camellia, said the victory has "completely changed" her life. read more...
 

The sad exodus of Christians from the birthplace of Jesus
The morning service at the Latin church in Beit Jala was packed, the enthusiastic congregation spanning generations filling the aisles and spilling out of the door, a powerful testimony of belief and faith. But, for many of the worshippers in the suburb of Bethlehem the driving wish was to secure their futures abroad, joining a Christian exodus from the land of the Bible. read more...
 

EGYPT: MUSLIM SUES FOR RIGHT TO CONVERT TO CHRISTIANITY
A Muslim convert to Christianity filed suit against Egypt for refusing to legally recognize his change of religion, sparking a reactionary lawsuit by Muslim clerics and death threats against his lawyer. read more...
 

"حقوق الانسان" : الحريات الاساسية في سورية شهدت تدهوراً خطيراً خلال العام الجاري
أعلنت لجان الدفاع عن الحريات الديمقراطية وحقوق الإنسان في سورية, ان تدهور وتراجع احترام حقوق الإنسان والحريات الأساسية, استمر في سورية خلال العام 2008 مع استمرار السلطة الحاكمة بنهجها الأمني في التعاطي مع المجتمع السوري, read more...
 

60 years on
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly. Passed by the fledgling body during the brief respite between the Second World War and the Cold War, the document was designed to prevent a repetition of that period’s dark excesses by enshrining individual rights. read more...
 

Life on the edge for Syrian artists
In the second of his articles from the Syrian capital Damascus, the BBC's Martin Asser looks at the role of the cultural life in a police state which for years has oppressively controlled freedom of expression. read more...
 

Aid groups face Iraqi Christian influx to Lebanon
Aid groups are scrambling to deal with an influx of Iraqi Christians who have been pouring into Lebanon to escape a wave of killings back home. read more...
 

Muslims riot over plans for Christian church in Cairo
A riot broke out over plans to convert a building in a Cairo suburb into a Christian church on Sunday. Muslims and Christians clashed in Mataria after worshippers arrived for a service at the site of the planned church. read more...
 

Lebanon's Jewish community staring at oblivion
Without a synagogue, or even a rabbi, handful of Jews left in Beirut forced to pray at home. Jewish merchant says, 'Locals do not understand that Israel means nothing to us. We consider it an enemy country as do all the Lebanese'. read more...
 

A Look At Iran's Christian Minority
Iran is officially designated the "Islamic Republic," yet among its more than 66 million people is a small but important Christian minority. Most of Iran's Christians are Armenians and Assyrians, read more...
 

Assyrians: Martyrs in Iraq
Assyrian Christians are fleeing Iraq in record numbers, following a spate of recent bombing attacks and targeted killings of Christian families in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. read more...
 

CDHR Statement on Lebanese Detainees in Syrian Jails
The history of arbitrary arrests conducted by the Syrian regime in Lebanon fluctuated between a denial that had become untenable in light of the latest events and allusions proving the truth of the information coming from within Syrian prisons. read more...
 

Iraqi Christians Stuck in Jordan
Despite rosy statistics released by the State Department this week, families and children who have been approved to legally immigrate to the United States are still waiting in misery in Amman for U.S. embassy officials to process their visas, refugees and community leaders told Newsmax. read more...
 

Human rights in Libya
For democracy well-wishers, 2004 in Libya was a fairly good year. After decades of stifling oppression, with public executions and missing prisoners, the country saw cracks of light. read more...
 

Iraqi Christian Refugees Ignored by U.N.
Christian refugees who have worked for the United States-led coalition in Iraq have run into a brick wall at the U.N. agency in Jordan that has been hired by the State Department to process asylum seekers, Newsmax has learned from interviews with over 100 refugees, U.N. aid workers, and U.S. diplomats in Jordan. read more...
 

Iraq’s Christian Exodus
The novelist Zora Neale Hurston described one of her characters as a rut in the road, with “plenty of life below the surface but it was beaten down by the wheels.” Since the fall of Saddam, the Christians of Iraq have been beaten down by every wheel in motion: violence, extortion, and murder. read more...