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Sign of Hope for Christians in Iraq
Publication Date: 1/2/2023
Source: FSSPX News
On the plains of Nineveh, the renaissance of a Dominican convent destroyed by jihadists constitutes a sign of hope for Christians still present in the area and a sign of hope for the Iraqi Christian diaspora.
Egypt increases security nationwide ahead of Coptic Christmas
Author: El-Sayed Gamal El-Din
Publication Date: 5/1/2023
Source: Ahram Online
The interior ministry's security directorates have deployed reinforcements around streets and axes leading to churches. In addition, electronic gates have been installed at church entrances to facilitate inspection measures.
Security directorates will be in charge of deploying security personnel around main squares, vital institutions, and tourist destinations countrywide.
Chaldean Patriarch Sako: the unity of the Churches is not a "gesture of courtesy", but a secret of the Christian presence in the Middle East
Publication Date: 12/1/2023
Source: Agenzia Fides
"The Eastern Churches need a breath of fresh air", is how the Iraqi Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldean Church, entitled his message for the forthcoming Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January, 18-25). In the statement he addresses the present and future of the Christian communities in the Middle East and concludes with an urgent appeal to find ways of unity and fraternal communion among Christians in the Middle East in order to ensure the continuity of the Christian presence in the region of the world in which Jesus was born, died and rose again.
Iraqi politicians extend New Year congratulations to Christians of Iraq
Publication Date: 1/2/2023
Source: Syriac Press
Iraqi political officials extended their New Year congratulations to the Christians of Iraq and the world.
Al-Nusra Seizes Possessions Of Christians In Syria’s Idlib
Author: Hani Salem
Publication Date: 9/1/2023
Source: North Press
On Monday, ” Spoils of War Committee” of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) seized lands and real estate belonging to expat Christians of Idlib though they have agents to facilitate things.
Christmas and New Year celebration in Iran
Publication Date: 1/1/2023
Source: Mehr News Agency
According to an ancient tradition, Christians around the world consider the beginning of the year to be January 1 in winter, just as we Iranians consider the beginning of the year to be the first day of Farvardin (March 21) in spring, and the Arabs consider the beginning of the year to be Muharram. It was in the 17th century that the 25th of December was proclaimed as Christmas or the birth of Jesus Christ, and almost all followers of Christianity celebrate this day as the birthday of Christ.
For a Christian in Europe, Turkey is the worst country
Publication Date: 18/1/2023
Source: Christian Network Europe
North Korea is championing religious persecution worldwide again. That is the message of the newly published Open Doors’ World Watch List. For European countries, Turkey has the highest position. Pressure on Christians is rising there, Open Doors says.
On the global scale, Turkey has number 41. Officially, the country has its religious freedom protected by law, Open Doors writes. “However, this is not the lived reality for Christians in Turkey.”
Iranian Christians warned not to join uprisings as protests surpass 100 days
Author: Anugrah Kumar
Publication Date: 26/12/2022
Source: The Christian Post
Iran’s security agencies have warned Assyrian and Chaldean Christians against joining the ongoing uprisings in the Islamic Republic, which surpassed 100 days over the weekend and sparked by the killing of Mahsa Amini, a young woman arrested by the “morality police” for not properly wearing a hijab.
Door of justice slammed shut in high-profile sectarian case, Thabet now faces civil suit from men who assaulted her
Author: Ahmed Bakr
Publication Date: 16/1/2023
Source: Mada Masr
The door was shut on the possibility of justice in a high profile sectarian case last week when the Court of Cassation upheld the acquittal of three men who assaulted Soad Thabet, 74, during sectarian riots in Minya over six years ago.
Thabet, a Coptic woman in the village of Karm, was assaulted by a Muslim mob in May 2016, after a rumor spread in the village about a relationship between Thabet’s son and a Muslim woman. The houses of a number of Coptic residents were looted and burned and Thabet was stripped naked and dragged through the streets of the village after her son fled, according to a statement from the Diocese of Minya and Abu Qurqas at the time.
Spokesman Congratulates Iranian Christians on Christmas
Publication Date: 26/12/2022
Source: Tasnim News Agency
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Nasser Kanaani congratulated the country’s Christian community on the occasion of Christmas and the new Gregorian calendar year.
In a post on his Twitter account on Sunday night, Kanaani expressed his felicitations over the auspicious birth anniversary of Jesus Christ (PBUH) to all Christians across the world, especially in Iran.
