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In all the frenzy over the shocking massacre which took place last night in Charleston, South Carolina, what’s being missed is that there’s another huge shock on the way for that city, and for the entire country, if a certain way of analyzing of the murder case against former North Charleston police officer Michael Slager turns out to be correct. I’m not the only one who has said that Slager is being over-charged, and will most likely beat the murder rap. Others have also pointed out that although he was wrong in shooting the fleeing Walter Scott, and that the...

In this con­text, we can clas­sify yesterday’s inci­dent of the Syr­iac Catholic Church of the Arch-Baghdad as the first test for the released Synod state­ment, to check the reac­tions of the patri­archs, bish­ops and church offi­cials on the chal­lenges fac­ing Chris­tians in the Mid­dle East, and was not an encour­ag­ing experience. Many fear the fate of Chris­tians in the East, as it turns to the ter­ror­ists for their attrib­utes with the pas­sage of time. After being “mar­gin­al­ized” polit­i­cally (even in Lebanon, where Chris­tians have been absent from polit­i­cal influ­ence in the coun­try), they have become “minor­ity”, who is not heard...