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Universal Syriac Union Party President Mrad rejects attempts to impose certain identities on Christians in Lebanon
Publication Date: 26/9/2022
Source: Syriac Press
President of the Universal Syriac Union Party (USUP) in Lebanon Ibrahim Mrad rejected any attempts to impose certain cultural identities on Christians in Lebanon.
Jerusalem priest calls on Christians to protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli raids
Publication Date: 27/9/2022
Source: Middle East Monitor
Father Manuel Musallam, a Palestinian catholic priest, yesterday called for all Christians in Palestine to mobilise and protect Al-Aqsa Mosque from planned Israeli settler raids in the coming days and weeks.
Orthodox patriarch warns Biden of Israeli extremist threat to Jerusalem's Christians
Publication Date: 19/7/2022
Source: The New Arab
Palestinian Christians in Jerusalem's Old City are regularly threatened with violence and expulsion by Israeli extremists, warned Greek Orthodox Patriarch Theophilos III.
Archaeologists find trove of Early Christian relics in damaged Mosul church
Author: J-P Mauro
Publication Date: 28/7/2022
Source: Aleteia
Archaeologists excavating a Mosul church damaged by ISIS during its occupation have unearthed about a dozen relics of early Christian saints. The discovery acknowledges the historical connection between Christians and Iraq, while serving as a reminder of the many other artifacts that were destroyed by extremists in recent years.
Four Christians detained after arrests in Neyshabur, Iran
Publication Date: 2/8/2022
Source: Barnabas Aid
Security forces in Iran have detained four Christian converts from Islam following a raid on a “house church” meeting on Sunday 26 June.
The four were among those attending a church service in Neyshabur, north-eastern Iran.
Iranian Christian converts struggle to get asylum in Germany
Publication Date: 5/8/2022
Source: Evangelical Focus
According to human rights activists, asylum applications by Iranians who have converted to Christianity have less and less chance of success in Germany.
“Human rights violations on religious grounds are an everyday reality in the country", said Martin Lessenthin, board spokesman of the International Society for Human Rights (IGFM), in a press conference about the situation of Christian converts from Iran in Germany.
Iranian propaganda turning public against Evangelical Christians, religious minorities: USCIRF
Author: Ian M. Giatti
Publication Date: 3/8/2022
Source: The Christian Post
The Iranian government is actively inciting "derogatory public opinion" against Christianity and other faiths by using Iranian media outlets to spread religious propaganda, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.
Syrian jihadi leader Golani meets with Idlib’s Christians
Author: Sultan al-Kanj
Publication Date: 27/7/2022
Source: Al Monitor
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) leader Abu Mohammed al-Golani continues his public appearances to promote his image as a leader who cares about the inhabitants of Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, more recently meeting up with a Christian community.
