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Today’s Arab Women Theologians Have Plenty of Past Exemplars
Author: Grace al-Zoughbi
Publication Date: 30/6/2023
Source: Christianity Today
The Middle East today is at a kairos moment in time. As women across the region fight for their rights and freedoms, the tectonic shift is felt also in Christian academia. What was once a trickle of female theologians has developed into a growing number of developing leaders, enabling and emboldening other women to rise in leadership.
Israeli journalist poses as Christian monk to investigate Jewish extremist harassment
Author: Ibrahim Husseini
Publication Date: 27/6/2023
Source: The New Arab
An Israeli journalist went undercover in occupied East Jerusalem to personally witness the extent of harassment inflicted upon Christian clergy by Jewish extremists within the Old City.
“We feel forgotten, we feel alone”: young Christians in Middle East speak out
Publication Date: 27/6/2023
Source: Open Doors
Across North Africa and the Middle East, church leaders are seeing young Christians feeling hopeless. Many want to leave the region, because of economic decline and limited job opportunities, on top of discrimination and persecution.
Emigration empties Qamishli of its Christian people
Publication Date: 22/6/2023
Source: Enab Baladi
The deteriorating security and living conditions have affected the historic presence of the Christian community in the northeastern region amidst an increasing emigration movement of Syrian Christians.
The Syriacs of Northeast Syria: The last exodus and new beginning
Author: Hadeel Oueis
Publication Date: 28/6/2023
Source: The Christian Post
Eleven years ago, I had to leave Hasaka, Syria, my hometown. I came from a large family of mixed Syriac and Greek Orthodox, consisting of five uncles, three aunts, and 25 cousins. Between 2012 and 2015, all of them, like many other Christians from Northeast Syria, were forced to leave the city. I was the first to depart because I actively participated in the Syrian uprising of 2011. At the age of 19, I was arrested, and upon my release, the fear of repeating the harsh experience of imprisonment made it impossible for me to continue living in Syria.
Inside Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic Church battle with Iran-backed Christian group
Author: Adam Lucente
Publication Date: 22/7/2023
Source: Al-Monitor
The Babylon Movement and its sanctioned leader, Rayan al-Kaldani, are feuding with Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako, leading to significant controversy that now involves the United States and the Vatican.
Israel's Christians horrified by hate crimes in Jerusalem
Author: Mazal Mualem
Publication Date: 19/6/2023
Source: Al-Monitor
Verbal and physical attacks are rising against Christians and Christian sites in Jerusalem.
Iraq’s Christians fight to save threatened ancient language
Publication Date: 7/6/2023
Source: Al Jazeera
Iraq’s conflict-scarred Christian community is launching a new television channel as part of efforts to save their dying, 2,000-year-old language.
