Lela Gilbert

Lela Gilbert

Op-ed Contributor

Did you know in US Jews are harassed 7 times a day?

As believers, let us speak up for today’s beleaguered Jewish people, reach out to them, and pray for their protection and our own. These are increasingly dangerous days for us all.

Did you know in US Jews are harassed 7 times a day?

360 million Christians face persecution, displacement and homelessness globally

In our comfortable surroundings, as we read, discuss, and seek to help our persecuted Christian brothers and sisters, let’s particularly pray for the homeless believers around the world. Most of them have little hope for resettlement. In fact — at least, for now — Heaven is the only home they can believe in.

360 million Christians face persecution, displacement and homelessness globally

US complicity and complacency endangers Christians worldwide

As for those of us who live in safety, let's never forget to pray for our endangered brothers and sisters around the world. And let's also continue to demand action from our U.S. government, which bears mounting responsibility for their suffering.

US complicity and complacency endangers Christians worldwide

Listen: A voice of faith from inside Iran’s Evin Prison

Those who follow the plight of Iran’s Christians have, in recent days, called on the Iranian government to release one particular prisoner who suffers from ill-health and is serving an extremely harsh 10-year sentence for “acting against national security.”

Listen: A voice of faith from inside Iran’s Evin Prison

Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Remenbrance

There was actually no mistake about it: The fact is, the Armenian Genocide cost 1.5 million Armenian Christians their lives, along with another million Assyrian and Greek believers.

Armenian Genocide: 100 Years of Remenbrance