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In 1900 Christians constituted around 32% of Ottoman Turkey’s population. Just 27 years later the figure was down to about 1.8%. In early 1915, a fatwa was issued against non-Muslims in the [...]

My wife and I were flown to Melbourne for me to receive half of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s $80,000 Prize for History for my book Australia’s Secret War: How Unionists Sabotaged Our [...]

There are some authors you know will not disappoint, and so you eagerly await their next volume. Historian and sociologist of religion Rodney Stark is one such writer whose growing library of [...]

“The Commonwealth of Australia will be, from its first stage, a Christian Commonwealth.” – Sir John Downer.1 Australia’s Greens announced that, when Parliament resumed in February, they would [...]

Hal Colebatch has generously allowed Life Ministries to use his articles in Life News for some years now. An award-winning poet and science fiction writer, Hal is also well known and respected [...]

The Christian-Pacifist attacks on C. S. Lewis come from a long tradition of leftism. Mark Tooley has done us a service by calling attention1to Stanley Hauerwas’s challenge to C.S. Lewis’s [...]

I left school and went to my first job and then to University as, I think, a Deist. I believed it was quite obvious that there was a God, because it was self-evidently true that there could not [...]

I saw an excellent interview on Australia’s Channel 7 Sunrise program recently. Christian leaders were being asked about their opposition to proposals to redefine marriage, and were discussing [...]

The early Christians in Rome were renowned because they cared for all their own poor and needy and also for other people’s. While their care for outsiders brought them persecution, their care for [...]

I grew up with stories of the Titanic. My Grandmother and Uncles had seen the great ship sail out of Belfast Lough at the beginning of her doomed maiden voyage. One of the many stories I heard [...]