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Dozens of illegal expropriations denounced by Christian landowners to the ad hoc Committee wanted by Muqtada al Sadr
Publication Date: 1/2/2021
Source: Agenzia Fides
There are already dozens of complaints to be studied on the working tables of the special committee set up at the request of Iraqi Shiite leader Muqtada al Sadr to collect and verify news and complaints regarding cases of illegal expropriation of property suffered in recent years by Christian landowners in different parts of Iraq.
Turkey: Elderly Christian Man Still Missing Year Later
Author: Uzay Bulut
Publication Date: 24/1/2021
Source: Gatestone Institute
One year after the abduction and disappearance of an elderly Christian couple in southeast Turkey, their children are still asking the Turkish authorities for help in locating their missing father and holding the perpetrators accountable.
Pope says he is intent on making Iraq trip despite difficulties
Publication Date: 1/2/2021
Source: Reuters
Pope Francis said on Monday he is intent on making a trip to Iraq next month even if it means many Iraqi Christians won’t be able to see him in person because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Religious minorities suppressed in Iran – Christian woman denied jobs
Publication Date: 22/1/2021
Source: NCR Iran Women Committee
The Iranian Intelligence services have deprived a Christian woman from getting employed for converting from Islam to Christianity.
A former prisoner of conscience, Mary Mohammadi (Fatemeh) wrote in a post that nearly one year since she was released from Qarchak Prison in Varamin, she has been deprived of finding employment. The companies that she previously worked with, have refrained from hiring her under pressure of intelligence services and against their own will.
St Mary’s Catholic Church in Dubai to reopen on Monday
Author: Angel Tesorero
Publication Date: 29/1/2021
Source: Gulf News
St Mary’s Catholic Church in Oud Metha, Dubai, will reopen on Monday (February 1), with two masses scheduled daily, parish priest Fr Lennie J.A. Connully OFM Cap announced on the church website. He said: “Glad to announce that we have received permission from CDA (Community Development Authority) to reopen our church for the Holy Mass with a few conditions and guidelines.”
After Israel, Will Morocco Normalize with Christians?
Author: Jayson Casper
Publication Date: 8/1/2021
Source: Christianity Today
President Donald Trump’s Abraham Accords have been singular in focus—build Middle East peace upon Arab states establishing full relations with Israel.
And although not officially linked, three of the four nations to normalize with the Jewish state this year received something from the United States in return.
Pope to meet top Shia leader Sistani on Iraq visit: Cardinal
Publication Date: 28/1/2021
Source: Al Jazeera
Pope Francis will meet top Shia religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani during the first-ever papal visit to Iraq in March, a senior Catholic cleric told the AFP news agency on Thursday. Louis Sako, the patriarch of Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church, said it would be a “private visit” between the two religious figures “without formalities”.
Turkey makes no progress in investigating abduction of elderly Christians
Publication Date: 12/1/2021
Source: Ahval News
Turkish authorities have failed to move forward with an investigation into the disappearance of an elderly Christian couple from Turkey’s southeastern province of Şırnak, Persecution.org website reported on Monday, citing the International Christian Concern (ICC).
Syriac Christian couple Hurmüz and Şimoni Diril, residents of the only Christian village of the town of Beytüşşebap, Kovankaya (Mehri), went missing on Jan. 7, 2020.
Turkish authorities launched an unsuccessful search and rescue operation. It was not until two months later, on March 20, 2020, that the dismembered body of Şimoni was found. But the whereabouts of Hurmüz remain unknown.
Iraqi Christians urged to undertake ‘Jonah’s fast’ against the pandemic
Publication Date: 20/1/2021
Source: Asia News
Like the people who prayed and fasted “at the time of Ezekiel” for the end of the epidemic of plague, so “we too are transforming this painful experience” of the COVID-19 pandemic into “opportunities for grace and good “through” spiritual and social solidarity,” writes Chaldean primate Card Louis Raphael Sako in a statement released today, presenting three days of fasting and prayer for “The revival of Nineveh”, beginning next Monday.
Pastor forced to leave home in Turkey for preaching
Publication Date: 20/01/2021
Source: ADF international
David Byle, a pastor living in Turkey, was forced to leave the country he had called home for 19 years, where he had raised his children and had become a close-knit member of the community – simply because he shared his faith.
This week, ADF International filed an application on his behalf with Europe’s top human rights court. 820 million Europeans from 47 different nations are subject to its rulings.
“Whenever we spoke in public, people were excited to listen and learn. For a long time, we were successfully able to fight the government attempts to stop our ministry, because we were only making use of our right to religious freedom, protected by the Turkish constitution. The government did not want us in Turkey, but plenty of people do. God called us there, he wants the Turkish people to hear about Him and to know that He is doing wonderful things,” said David Byle.
