A Tragic Easter for the Middle East’s beleaguered Christians

With recent troubling events in Egypt, Iraq, Syria, and Palestine, Christians across the Middle East are faced with a somber reminder of a precarious future for their religion’s adherents.

by Charlie Hoyle

For Christians across the Middle East, Easter should be a week of joyous celebration and salvation. But in the region where Christianity was born, it proved a somber reminder of a precarious future for the religion’s adherents.

The Easter holy week got off to a bloody start when forty-five people were killed in ISIS attacks on two Coptic …