Christians Under Growing Pressure in the Holy Land
This article was first published in German in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on July 22nd, 2026. Church representatives in the Holy Land have often reported repression and emigration in recent years....
View ArticleJohn L. Esposito: The Dean of Islamic Studies in the West – A Tribute
Understanding faith traditions—their civilizational and cultural histories and contributions—wins further clarity and recognition if the scholar comes to the field equipped with knowledge of other...
View ArticleA U.S. Attack on Iran Would Redefine Global Shiism
The recent large-scale deployment of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Europe has led many analysts to question whether a military intervention in Iran is on the horizon—and what its short- and...
View ArticleVenice 2026: Virtue and Democratic Resilience | Summer School
Virtue and Democratic Resilience Listening to the Voice of Ethics in a Broken Polis From May 25th to the 30th, 2026 Venice International University – Island of San Servolo, Venice, Italy The 2026...
View ArticleVenice 2026: Virtue and Democratic Resilience
Virtue and Democratic Resilience Listening to the Voice of Ethics in a Broken Polis The 2026 Venice Seminars and Summer School will explore the relationship between civic virtue, character formation,...
View ArticleThe Russia-Ukraine Conflict and the Role of the Orthodox Church: A Documentary
It is impossible to understand the Russia–Ukraine conflict—or to envision a path to peace—without examining the ecclesiological dimension of relations between Moscow and Kyiv. Kyiv has been regarded as...
View ArticleReligion and Reconciliation in Bosnia-Herzegovina & the Balkans: A Documentary
From the siege of Sarajevo to the genocide of Srebrenica, religion during the Balkan wars of the 1990s was mobilized to legitimize violence, define enemies, and morally justify exclusion, hatred, and...
View ArticleKing Charles III and Pope Leo XIV Mark a New Chapter in Ecumenism
“That’s the thing about the monarchy. We paper over the cracks. And if what we do is loud and grand and confident enough, no one will notice that all around us it’s fallen apart.” This is what Princess...
View ArticleWhy Liberalism Alone Can’t Hold us Together
John Milbank, Professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham and one of the main experts on post-liberalism, reflects on the fragility of Western...
View ArticleWhen “Greater Israel” Targets Christians Too
In the peak of summer, as Operation Gideon’s Chariots (launched in May 2025) entered its second month, news emerged that the Israeli army had bombed Gaza’s only Catholic church, the Church of the Holy...
View ArticleHaifa University Peace Prize Assigned to Cardinal Pizzaballa
Christ is in Gaza, “crucified in the wounded and buried under the rubble.” With that image, Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, reaffirmed the Church’s presence in the...
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The Christian Martyrs of Algeria: Why They Stayed
The connection between religion and violence has long been seen as a political and sociological certainty. In recent decades, particularly after the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution and the September...
View ArticleTaybeh: Now, Even Christians in the Holy Land Face Threats from Settlers
The upheavals concerning the area we call the Holy Land, where Jesus preached and which today spans Israel and the Palestinian Territories, inevitably involve the Christians living there. To grasp...
View ArticlePope Leo XIV between Augustinian Tradition and Global Challenges
What will it mean to have an Augustinian at the helm of the Catholic Church? A Church followed, on paper, by a billion and a half faithful, predominantly strong in what are increasingly becoming the...
View ArticleThe Far-Reaching Stakes of the Waqf Amendment Bill
The Waqf (Amendment) Bill, 2024, alongside the proposed Uniform Civil Code (UCC), underscores the Narendra Modi government’s broader plan to reshape the sociopolitical landscape, particularly that of...
View ArticleThe “Regime Change” of Trump’s Second Presidency: Political Messianism vs....
In the history of the United States, this is the era of Donald Trump. The transition from Joe Biden to Trump does not represent a normal transition of power, but rather a regime change. It marks the...
View ArticlePope Francis and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition
Jorge Bergoglio was not an intellectual in the scholarly sense, either before or after ascending to the papacy as Pope Francis. Rather, he was primarily a pastor and a shepherd. Secondarily, he was a...
View ArticleModi’s Waqf Bill and the Future of Muslim Endowments in India
Despite a reduced majority in Parliament, India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has pushed through a contentious amendment that has dealt another blow to multireligious India and enraged the...
View ArticleThe Reformist Pope
The choice of Francis as his papal name by Jorge Mario Bergoglio immediately signaled the doctrinal orientation of his pontificate. Following in the footsteps of Saint Francis of Assisi, the new Bishop...
View ArticleFrom Language to Brotherhood: Francis’ Reforms in Progress
Reviewing Pope Francis’s pontificate and trying to assess it is an understandable goal, but since the Pope himself said that his priority was to trigger processes, I find it more interesting to follow...
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