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Good News for Iraq’s Christians: More Autonomy, Less Dhimmitude
Author: Jayson Casper
Publication Date: 8/10/2021
Source: Christianity Today
This week, the Christian enclave of Ankawa in Erbil, the capital city of Iraqi Kurdistan, was designated by the autonomous region’s prime minister as an official district with administrative autonomy. Starting next week, Christians will directly elect their own mayor and be in charge of security, among other matters.
Chaldean Patriarch Sako: the future of Christians in the Middle East depends above all on them
Publication Date: 6/10/2021
Source: Agenzia Fides
The presence of Christian communities in the Middle East and their survival in the lands of the first apostolic preaching call into question "first of all" the responsibilities of Middle Eastern Christians themselves, who are also called to "admit their mistakes" to free themselves from a persistent "sectarian mentality" in order to build civil institutions together with their fellow citizens, which are suitable to guarantee the coexistence among different people. This is how the Chaldean Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako comments the present and the future of Christians in the Middle East. He does this in the context of a long and detailed reflection published by the Iraqi cardinal through the official communication tools of the Chaldean Patriarchate.
Iraqi Kurdish PM grants Erbil Christian neighbourhood administrative control
Publication Date: 5/10/2021
Source: The New Arab
The Prime Minister of the Kurdish region of Iraq, Masrour Barzani, has announced that the Ainkawa district of Erbil has been placed under the administrative control of its Christian residents.
It is hoped that the move will create a home for Iraq and Syria’s Christian minorities, who have been forced to flee their homes due to fears of persecution.
Baghdad, Christian MP: Duty to vote, despite 'marginal' change
Author: Dario Salvi
Publication Date: 30/9/2021
Source: Asia News
Iraqis are not looking forward with great hope for a 'radical change" in the upcoming general elections, scheduled for October 10, but "it is our duty to vote" even if thae change is "minimal and marginal" says Rihan Hanna Ayoub, a 37 year old Christian MP from the constituency of Kirkuk.
Christians produce magazine for Iranian women
Author: Kevin Zeller
Publication Date: 8/10/2021
Source: Mission Network News
In Iran, Muslim settings often ignore the thoughts, feeling, and ideas of women. That’s why Omid Sabouki operates a ministry that focuses on the value of women. He says many Iranian women have been brought up to think this way about themselves.
Christians in Palestine: A threatened community?
Author: Bård Helge Kårtveit
Publisher/Publication: CHR. Michelsen Institute Brief
Volume/Issue: 11(8)
Imperialism, Evangelism, and the Ottoman Armenians
Author: Jeremy Salt
Publisher/Publication: Frank Cass
DOI/ISBN: 9781138832213
Arabic Antimissionary Treatises: Muslim Responses to Christian Evangelism in the Modern Middle East
Author: Heather J. Sharkey
Publisher/Publication: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
Volume/Issue: 28(3)
DOI/ISBN: 10.1177/239693930402800301
