Globe Trot: Christian refugees suffer harassment in Germany

GERMANY: Christian refugees are subject to harassment in refugee camps, said an Orthodox priest and member of Germany’s federal integration committee.

“It was not only his words that amazed me—how fearlessly he criticized the government, and how openly he also spoke of the hardening taking place in his own Christian community. What made an even more profound impression on me was his demeanor: I experienced him as a quiet, very conscientious, introverted, and ascetic servant of God who, now that God had given him the task of ministering to the beleaguered Christians in Qaryatain and leading the monastic community, was devoting all his strength to carrying out this public duty as well.”

IRAN’s “high seize” has ended, with the Islamic regime freeing 10 sailors and their U.S. naval vessels. The U.S. Navy personnel are returning to their base in Bahrain, but Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif (he who garnered coveted New York Times op-ed space earlier this week to tout his regime) took “a firm stance” with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in a phone conversation about the incident, saying the U.S. violated Iran’s territorial waters “and should apologize.”

MALI: Beatrice Stockly, the Swiss missionary kidnapped in Timbuktu in 2012 and held for 10 days, has been kidnapped again by Islamic militants.

CHINA: The complex drivers of China’s looming recession are explained in this really instructive video by George Mason University economist Tyler Cowen.