Mindy, a former senior editor for WORLD Magazine, wrote the publication’s first cover story in 1986. She has covered wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Africa, and the Balkans and is author of They Say We Are Infidels: On the Run From ISIS With Persecuted Christians in the Middle East. Mindy resides in Asheville, N.C.
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Mindy Belz | Broad evangelical coalition urges political pressure on behalf of their beleaguered brothers, but some evangelicals support business as usual and lobby to protect Beijing's MFN status
Mindy Belz | In the provinces, Russian officials bully religious freedom and insist on state-sponsored worship
Mindy Belz | Conservative religious parties in Israel are driving a bill that would bar evangelism; the vote is a major test of the coalition government's strength; Christian groups brace for a big fight
Mindy Belz | Failed get-rich-quick schemes lead to anarchy then martial law; capitalist excesses threaten Eastern European freedom
Mindy Belz | Christian homes and churches devastated by Muslim rioters
Mindy Belz | Roundup of news of persecution against Christians worldwide
Mindy Belz | In the post-Deng era, Christian conservatives hope to make a fresh start in pressing Washington to take seriously religious persecution in China
Mindy Belz | Falsely accused Christians are mixed among legitimately imprisoned communist Peruvian terrorists whose release is the central demand of the hostage-takers; the government's response is failing to separate the guilty from the innocent
Mindy Belz | President Chiluba prods Zambia to be a "Christian nation"
Mindy Belz | Two American politicians ignore the Cuban dictator's true colors: Over dinner, one asks, "Are you torturing political prisoners?" Castro says, "No," apparently satisfying the congressman's pedestrian curiosity.