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by bcadmin | Aug 4, 2022 | Caritas, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Pope Francis | 0 |
As Lebanon marks the second anniversary of the devastating Beirut port blast, many citizens are angry at the lack of progress and the worsening of a social and economic crisis that has left swaths of the population in acute difficulty.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 2, 2022 | Church in Middle East, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, Middle East, News, Patriarch Luis Sako | 0 |
Demonstrators stormed Iraqi’s parliament and high-security Green Zone over the weekend, prompting one of the country’s top Catholic prelates to condemn sectarianism and call for dialogue, lest the situation worsen.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Afghanistan, Asia, Freedom of Religion, India, Iraq, Liz Truss, Middle East, News, North Korea, Persecution of Chrisitians, Taliban, United Kingdom, World News | 0 |
Peninah was only 24-years-old when her husband Paul was murdered by Al-Shabaab terrorists in Kenya. Attackers with Kalashnikovs, lined the men up in the street and demanded they recite sections of the Koran. Paul was a Christian and they shot him. In Afghanistan, the Taliban dragged Zabi’s 60-year-old Christian father away into the night. After
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Read MoreAs Easter, Passover and Ramadan coincide, we should look for an end to the occupation of Palestine, says Rev Carrie Ballanger
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 11, 2022 | Iraq, Middle East, News, Pope Francis, President Joe Biden, Safe Return | 0 |
Returning to Iraq, a year after covering Pope Francis’s trip, John Cookson asks why the Biden administration is cutting aid to the country’s Christians
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 1, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Church in the Middle East, Interreligious dialogue, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, Middle East Christianity, News, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
On Monday British Archbishop Paul Gallagher began a 5-day trip to Lebanon that will have political, ecclesial, and pastoral implications as the country struggles to overcome a crippling financial and social crisis.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 14, 2022 | Afghanistan, Asylum, Biden Administration, Church in the US, lead, Marquette University, Middle East, News, Taliban | 0 |
Last month as Rozita Gerhardt helped Afghan refugees complete their asylum applications, she thought of her mother, who years ago fled Iran, and how the paperwork is just the first step in what will be a lifelong process.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2022 | Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Church in the Middle East, lead, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Vatican | 0 |
British Archbishop Paul Gallagher, the Vatican’s Secretary for Relations with States, is expected to visit Lebanon in February.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 4, 2022 | Anti-Christian persecution, Church in the Middle East, Iraq, lead, Middle East, News, Raphael Sako | 0 |
Iraq’s top Catholic leader hopes the new year will help the citizens of this violence-torn country overcome divisions and tensions, and lead to the much needed reform of the country. “Peace is achieved when it becomes part of personal behavior,” wrote Cardinal Louis Raphael Sako, the patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic […]
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 25, 2021 | Africa, Christmas, Coronavirus, COVID-19, lead, Middle East, News, peace, Pope Francis, Ukraine, urbi et orbi, Vatican | 0 |
As the world continues to navigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis in his Christmas day message touted dialogue and encounter as the way out and prayed for world peace and an end to global conflicts.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Books, Christians in the Middle East, December 2021, Magazine, Middle East, News | 0 |
The Vanishing: Faith, Loss, and the Twilight of Christianity in the Land of the Prophets by Janine di Giovanni PublicAffairs, £22.99, 272 pages ________ “This is a book about dying communities, but it is also about faith.” Janine di Giovanni has written a moving and insightful portrait of the Middle East’s shrinking Christian population, which
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 22, 2021 | Church in Middle East, Church in the Middle East, European union, lead, Middle East, News, sanctions, Syria, Syrian Civil War | 0 |
One of Syria’s top prelates for the Latin rite of the Catholic Church has called international sanctions against Syria criminal, saying they have little political impact but cause suffering for the poor.
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