Resources
Watching Saddam Fall: Assyrian Refugees in Sydney and the Imagining of a New Iraq
Author: Greg Gow
Publisher/Publication: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice
Volume/Issue: 48(3)
DOI/ISBN: 10.3167/015597704782352294
The Betrayal of the Powerless Assyrians after the 2003 US Invasion of Iraq
Author: Frederick A. Aprim
Publisher/Publication: XLibris US
DOI/ISBN: 978-1664157958
The Rise of Christian Nationalism in Lebanon in Lebanon and the Arab Uprisings: In the Eye of the Hurricane
Author: Maximilian Felsch
Publisher/Publication: Routledge
DOI/ISBN: 9781138477841
The Religious Roots of the Syrian Conflict: The Remaking of the Fertile Crescent
Author: Mark Tomass s
Publisher/Publication: Palgrave Macmillan US
DOI/ISBN: 10.1057/9781137525710
As pope ends trip, Iraq's prime minister calls for national dialogue
Author: Hassan Ali Ahmed
Publication Date: 8/3/2021
Source: Al Monitor
After Pope Francis returned from his first international trip since the coronavirus pandemic began, where he visited different ethnicities and religious groups in Iraq, he tweeted, “Iraq will always remain in my heart.” He asked the Iraqi people “to work together, united for a future of peace and prosperity that leaves no one behind and discriminates against no one.”
North African Laws Leave Christians Vulnerable
Publication Date: 27/3/2021
Source: Persecution - International Christian Concern
Ten years after the Arab Spring, minorities in North African countries continue to experience religious persecution and oppression. According to independent research by an Egyptian, religious minorities Egypt, Algeria, Tunisia, and Morocco suffer from harsh and disproportionate laws.
Two Christians Sentenced to Prison and Heavy Fine in Algeria
Publication Date: 4/3/2021
Source: Morning Star News
A court in Algeria has convicted and sentenced in absentia a pastor and another Christian to two years in prison and a heavy fine, accusing them of “shaking the faith” of Muslims with Christian literature at their bookstore, sources said.
Pastor Rachid Seighir and Nouh Hamimi learned by a written notification slipped under the door of their church building in Oran, a coastal city 268 miles west of Algiers, that they had been sentenced to prison and fined 500,000 Algerian dinars (US$3,745).The pastor was the manager of the now-closed bookstore, where Hamimi worked as a salesman. The judgment reads that they are condemned for “distributing publications or any other propaganda undermining the faith of a Muslim.”
'Dragged in the street': Christian persecution in Tunisia still rampant decade after revolution
Author: Emily Wood
Publication Date: 4/3/2021
Source: The Christian Post
A decade after the Tunisian Revolution, a new human rights report details the siege on religious freedom for Christians and other faith minorities in the Muslim-majority country, sharing cases in which followers of Jesus were harassed, dragged into the street, threatened and arrested.
The Attalaki Association for Liberty and Equality Committee on Religious Freedom published the annual report on the freedom of religion and belief in Tunisia for 2020. The organization was founded in 2016 to call for dialogue between religions and make the voices of religious minorities heard.
