Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

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Lela Gilbert is an adjunct fellow at Hudson's Center for Religious Freedom as well as an award-winning writer who has authored or co-authored more than sixty books.

Biography

Lela Gilbert is an award-winning writer who has authored or co-authored more than sixty books. Most recently she has written Baroness Cox: Eyewitness to a Broken World (2nd edition, Lion Hudson, 2021) and Heroic Faith: Hope amid Global Persecution, coauthored with Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin (US Army, ret.) and Arielle Del Turco (Fidelis Books, 2022). She also coauthored Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians with Hudson’s Center for Religious Freedom Director Nina Shea and Senior Fellow Paul Marshall (Thomas Nelson, 2013).

Having resided in Israel for ten years, Ms. Gilbert's critically acclaimed book Saturday People, Sunday People: Israel through the Eyes of a Christian Sojourner (Encounter Books, 2012)—although authored by a Christian—was listed in Jewish Ideas Daily as one of the twenty best non-fiction Jewish books of 2012.

Ms. Gilbert writes op-eds and articles about the intensifying global persecution of minorities in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa as well as ongoing European and Islamist antisemitism. She has published in Newsweek, Fathom Journal, Religion Unplugged, World Israel News, Jewish Policy Review, Providence Magazine, and the Washington Stand.

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Witnessing the Growing Rise of Antisemitism in the U.S. as a Non Jew

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

May 23, 2020

Commentary

5 Min Read

One Christian Family’s Story of Unending Persecution in India

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

May 23, 2020

Commentary

4 Min Read

A church in India attacked by Hindu extremists. Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom International, an organization that provides legal resources to persecuted Christians.

India Is a U.S. Ally While Persecuting Christians

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

May 20, 2020

Commentary

6 Min Read

A Mother's Day Prayer for a Nigerian Miracle

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

May 7, 2020

Commentary

4 Min Read

Mayor Bill de Blasio greets healthcare workers and conducts a press conference at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, New York, April 10, 2020.

De Blasio Targets NY Jews Amidst Rising Anti-Semitism

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

May 4, 2020

Commentary

4 Min Read

December 11, 2019 Nigerian refugee women at the growing Awaridi refugee settlement now home to 9,000 plus mostly northern Nigerians who fled Boko Haram violence over the past few years.

Is the World Ignoring a Christian Genocide in Nigeria?

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Apr 21, 2020

Commentary

5 Min Read

Members of the Syrian civil defence, also known as the White Helmets, prepare their sterilisation equipment before a sterilization campaign for hospitals in the city of Idlib against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, after the emergence of suspected ca

Coronavirus, Turkish Attacks Threaten Kurds, Christians in Northeast Syria

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Apr 14, 2020

Commentary

5 Min Read

Sri Lankan officials inspect St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, north of Colombo, after multiple explosions targeting churches and hotels across Sri Lanka on April 21, 2019, in Negombo, Sri Lanka.

This Easter, Christians Worldwide Are Fighting Not Just COVID-19 but Persecution Too

Lela Gilbert

Adjunct Fellow, Center for Religious Freedom

Lela Gilbert

Apr 12, 2020

Commentary

5 Min Read

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin via a video link, from the Great Hall of the People on December 2, 2019 in Beijing, China. (Noel Celis/Getty Images)

China’s People of Faith: Canaries in Xi Jinping’s Coal Mine