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Can Lebanon’s Baptists and Maronites Cooperate Amid Crisis?
Author: Jayson Casper
Publication Date: 4/2/2022
Source: Christianity Today
Despite history of mutual wariness, rapidly deteriorating economy may finally bring together evangelicals and Catholics in service of society.
The toll of sectarian politics
Author: Zeead Yaghi
Publication Date: 31/1/2022
Source: Commonweal Magazine
Letter from Lebanon
During the past two years Lebanon has gone through a series of crises that have pushed its residents to the brink of ruin. A financial collapse engineered by the governing elite saw millions lose their savings; an explosion in Beirut’s port killed hundreds, maimed thousands, and destroyed the livelihoods of half the city; and now a global pandemic has pushed an already impoverished nation into outright destitution. The United Nations estimates that three-quarters of the population now live below the poverty line. Hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, both young and old, have left the country in search of greener pastures abroad. Lebanon’s Christian community, which still makes up roughly a third of the population, is shrinking every day, many of its members having finally given up on making a good life for themselves in their home country.
Israel plans to expand national park onto Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem
Publication Date: 20/2/2022
Source: Middle East Eye
Borders of the enlarged Jerusalem Walls National Park would include a large section of the Mount of Olives along with parts of the Kidron and Ben Hinnom Valleys
Pope could visit Lebanon this year if conditions permit: Vatican envoy
Publication Date: 10/2/2022
Source: The New Arab
A Vatican envoy who was in Beirut recently said Pope Francis might visit Lebanon this year 'if the conditions are right'
Lebanese Maronite Patriarch urges IMF deal, elections on time
Publication Date: 9/2/2022
Source: The New Arab
Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Rai has called on Lebanon's government to implement speedy reforms and reach and agreement with the International Monetary Fund.
Macron doubles French funding for Christian schools in the Middle East
Publication Date: 4/2/2022
Source: The New Arab
At an event at the Élysée Palace this week, French President Emmanuel Macron announced the doubling of financial aid for Christian schools in the MENA region, from 2 million euros annually to 4 million this year.
Egypt names first-ever Christian head of country's top court
Author: Samy Magdy
Publication Date: 9/2/2022
Source: Washington Post
Egypt’s president on Wednesday swore in the first-ever Coptic Christian to head the country’s highest court.
Judge Boulos Fahmy is the 19th person to preside over the Supreme Constitutional Court since it was established in 1969. President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi picked the 65-year-old Fahmy from among the court’s five oldest of 15 sitting judges, as is prescribed by law.
Fahmy succeeded Judge Saeed Marei, who retired over health reasons, according to Mohammed Bassal, a respected expert in Egypt’s judicial affairs and editorial manager of the Shorouk daily.
As Jerusalem's Christians come under attack from Jewish extremists, the West turns a blind eye to Israel's complicity
Author: Robert Inlakesh
Publication Date: 21/01/2022
Source: The New Arab
Despite many attempts to sound the alarm on the oppression they face, Jerusalem’s Christians have had their plight ignored by a global community that often denies Israel’s persecution of Palestinian Christians altogether, writes Robert Inlakesh.
