IRAN: After U.S. sanctions went into effect Tuesday, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Anyone doing business with Iran will NOT be doing business with the United States.” In May, the United States backed out of the Iran nuclear deal, despite opposition from European allies who claim the deal is working.

TURKEY: The move by the Turkish central bank Monday morning is ominous—lowering its reserve requirement as a pretense to boost liquidity. It’s straight from China’s playbook— and signaling a looming economic crisis, the way of all dictatorships.

IRAQ: Friday marks the fourth anniversary of the ISIS genocide of Yazidis in Iraq. Besides the thousands ISIS killed and enslaved, thousands remain missing—and a Yazidi population of 400,000 before 2014 in Iraq has been obliterated. I write about my encounter last week with Yazidi activist and survivor Nadia Murad in the latest issue of WORLD Magazine.

What’s a nice theologian doing in the middle of a political debate? Matthew Kaemingk, assistant professor of Christian ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, is the author of Christian Hospitality and Muslim Immigration in an Age of Fear (Eerdmans, 2018). He says Biblical understanding on immigration “should spring from the actual work of Jesus, who made space for me when I was His enemy.” We met at a Center for Public Justice panel discussion in Washington, D.C., and then continued the conversation via Skype. Here are edited excerpts:

CHINA: Beijing professor Xu Zhangrun last week delivered in essay form a fiery denunciation of President Xi Jinping, urging lawmakers to reverse a vote this year abolishing term limits for the presidency and describing “a degree of panic throughout society.” The professor wrote in concluding the rebuke (in Chinese, with a translation underw

Nadia Murad moved quietly, almost invisibly through the crowd in Remembrance Hall at the U.S. Holocaust Museum. In a sea of heels and pencil skirts, she wore a khaki jacket over a black T-shirt and pants, her dark hair loosely pulled back.

EGYPT: Coptic Orthodox Bishop Epiphanius was found dead Sunday morning, lying in a pool of blood and apparently murdered in a corridor of the Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great in Wadi El Natrun, where he served as abbot.