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Fuel dispute triggers sectarian clash in Lebanon's south
Author: Maha El Dahan; Editing by Tom Perry and Nick Macfie
Publication Date: 30/8/2021
Source: Reuters
A dispute over scarce fuel supplies ignited sectarian tensions between neighbouring Shi'ite Muslim and Christian villages in southern Lebanon over the weekend, forcing the army to intervene, a security source said.
PM Kadhimi calls on Christians to return to Iraq
Author: Dilan Sirwan
Publication Date: 14/8/2021
Source: Rudaw
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Saturday called on displaced Christians to return to Iraq, and while Christian religious figures consider it as an “honest and sincere” gesture, some have told Rudaw that Christians need more to be able to return home.
Christian residents of two northern Israeli ghost towns renew bid to go home
Author: Botrus Mansour
Publication Date: 31/8/2021
Source: Religion News Service (RNS)
With a new coalition government in power in Israel, descendants of the residents of Iqrit and Biram have hopes of rebuilding the towns.
One of Iraq’s oldest Christian communities struggles with religious diversity
Author: Rebecca Collard
Publication Date: 12/8/2021
Source: The World
At a church in the northern Iraqi town of Bartella, young, Iraqi Christians prepare for their First Communion. Their teacher is speaking Aramaic, the same, ancient Semitic language believed to have been spoken by Jesus. Bartella is one of the world’s oldest Christian communities — but Christians here are now a minority.
France’s Macron visits Iraq’s Mosul destroyed by IS war
Author: Hadi Mizban and Qassim Abdul-Zahra
Publication Date: 29/8/2021
Source: Associated Press
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday visited Iraq’s northern city of Mosul, which suffered widespread destruction during the war to defeat the Islamic State group in 2017. He vowed to fight alongside regional governments against terrorism. Macron said IS carried out deadly attacks throughout the world from its self-declared caliphate in parts of Syria and Iraq. He said IS did not differentiate between people’s religion and nationality when it came to killing, noting that the extremists killed many Muslims.
Kuwait churches, like mosques, eager to return to normal activities
Author: Ben Garcia
Publication Date: 10/8/2021
Source: Kuwait Times
The Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs has officially requested the Ministry of Health to allow a return to normal activities in mosques, including allowing worshippers to be at closer proximity to each other while performing prayers. Mosques have been allowed to resume sermons and lessons, but are still adhering to social distancing guidelines during congregation prayers.
The movement of Muqtada al Sadr relaunches the campaign to return houses and land illegally stolen from Christians and Mandeans
Publication Date: 26/8/2021
Source: Agenzia Fides
Thanks to the campaign of the Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr, more than eighty properties - land and houses - have been returned to their rightful owners, including mostly Christians, citizens and Mandaeans after they have been victims of arbitrary and unlawful appropriation of their property by individuals or in recent years organized groups. Hakim al Zamili, a leading member of the "Sadrists" (supporter of the political group led by Muqtada al Sadr), who also previously chaired the Iraqi Parliamentary Committee on Security and Defense, reported on the results achieved so far thanks to the iniziative inspired by Muqtada al Sadr.
Seven years after ISIS invasion, Iraqis still face uncertain future
Author: Elise Ann Allen
Publication Date: 8/8/2021
Source: Crux Now
For Iraqis, the first week of August 2014 will forever be etched into their memory as the start of one of the worst episodes of religious and ethnic persecution the country has ever seen when the so-called Islamic State overtook the Plain of Nineveh.
Iraqi Christians see little prospect of returning to former homes
Author: Mina Aldroubi
Publication Date: 16/8/2021
Source: National News
Iraqi Christians say they despair about ever returning to the homes they fled after the rise of ISIS, despite government assurances about their safety.
Algerian Christian convert arrested and deported from Tunisia
Publication Date: 31/8/2021
Source: Independent Catholic News
Algerian Christian convert Sulieman Buhafss was arrested by secret police in Tunisia on 25 August. He was subsequently repatriated and handed over to the Algerian authorities.
