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The Untold Story of Syrian Kurdish Christians
We feel forgotten and abandoned sometimes. The world does not know much about the challenges and difficulties that face us. All countries in the region do not recognize conversion from Islam. This makes life very difficult for us, especially in terms of marriages, funerals, and obtaining birth and death certificates, because we are still considered Muslims by law.”
Israeli medic fired after spitting on Jesus portraits at Christian family’s home
Publication Date: 17/11/2020
Source: Jewish News
The Magen David Adom employee was caught on camera removing his mask and overalls before spitting on three pictures in a communal hallway of a block of flats in Jaffa
Thinking about Christian Life in the Turmoil Times of the Middle East Insights and Reflections from East and West
Author: Martin Tamcke & Claudia Rammelt
Publisher/Publication: Universitätsverlag Göttingen Edition
DOI/ISBN: 978-3-86395-443-7
Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation
Author: Anh Nga Longva & Anne Sofie Roald
Publisher/Publication: Brill
DOI/ISBN: ISBN 978-90-04-20742-4
America’s still failing to protect Christians across the Middle East
Author: Robert Nicholson
Publication Date: 24/11/2020
Source: New York Post
The full meaning of the recent war in the Caucasus was captured in a sad video of Armenians gathered outside an old mountain church to sing one last hymn before going into exile. This small Christian nation’s humiliation at the hands of Azerbaijan and Turkey, two American allies, reveals the limits of US power and the need for a new strategy to aid Mideast Christians.
Athens reaches out to Syria via Greek Orthodox community
Author: Sean Matthews
Publication Date: 20/10/2020
Source: Al Monitor
The appointment this spring of Greece’s former Syrian ambassador as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' new special envoy for Syria is being viewed as a sign of Greece’s renewed geopolitical interest in its southern neighborhood and of its desire to establish a greater role in a country to which it has deep historic ties.
How U.S. hawks’ fixation on Iran endangers Middle East Christians
Author: Elda Mamedov
Publication Date: 31/10/2020
Source: Eurasianet
As fierce fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan continues into a second month, neoconservatives in Washington are pushing the United States to side with Azerbaijan. Their rationale – involving Iran and Israel, as so many of Washington’s priorities in the Middle East do – is facile, naïve and dangerous to the region’s minorities.
Court in Iran Denies Christians Custody of Adopted Daughter
Publication Date: 1/10/2020
Source: Morning Star News
A appeals court in Iran last week denied a Christian couple custody of their adopted daughter after they faced criminal charges for their faith.
Sam Khosravi and Maryam Falahi, converts from Islam, had adopted 3-month-old Lydia from an orphanage in February 2019. Before a welfare organization finalized the adoption, government security agents arrested them in July 2019 in a raid of their home in Bushehr in southwest Iran.
