The church began among Middle Easterners. Sadly, the Middle East today is a place of continual conflict that the church finds difficult to influence. The Acts 2:11 Project exists to encourage the church to love her Middle Eastern neighbors and break down the barriers of fear, misunderstanding and bias. We invite you to read, learn, and join the conversation.
Recent Articles
What Monks, Mystics and Mosaics Teach us about Religion, Politics and Mission
by Scott Gustafson | April 23, 2026 | Random Reflections
Um al Rassas and the witness of Byzantine Christians....
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Research on Religious Freedom and Security: What We Know—and Don’t Know
by Scott Gustafson | April 9, 2026 | Book Excerpt
Here’s my latest on Religious Freedom on the Portico blog of the Institute for Global Engagement: Religious freedom is more...
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War in Lebanon: Letter from the President of ABTS
by Wissam Nasrallah | March 26, 2026 | Current Events
March 10, 2026 Dear friends and partners, Once again, Lebanon finds itself in a war it did not choose,...
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Quotes to ponder
“First, fostering heterogenous alternative communities in hostile environments poses a powerful antidote to the us/them narrow binary that can lead extremists to question their tightly defined realities.” Read More

Scott Gustafson
Principal - Purpose Global Strategies“Instead of creating bridges between the various members of the Body of Christ, end-times prophecy obscures the existence and role of the Arab Church and results in withdrawal of the Western church from the church in the MENA region during a time when more engagement is needed.” Read More

Wissam al-Saliby
Advocacy officer with the World Evangelical AllianceContributors
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