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Originally published in Christian Today Increasing strife over Jerusalem’s most volatile holy site plunged relations between Israel and Jordan into crisis on Wednesday, with Amman recalling its ambassador for the first time since the countries’ 1994 peace treaty. In a sign of tensions, a Palestinian rammed his car into pedestrians […]
Originally published in The Gospel Herald Over 1 000 ancient Christian documents have been saved by a Dominican priest who escaped Islamic State militants in Iraq. According to a Kurdish news agency, Father Nageeb Michaeel, previously director of the Digital Centre for Eastern Manuscripts at the Mar Behnam Syriac Catholic […]
Originally published in Christian Today At least 220 members of a tribe that opposed the Islamic State were found this week to have been executed, according to a Reuters report. The news agency said the bodies of the men aged 18 to 55 were found in two mass graves in Anbar […]
Originally published in Worthy News Iran executed a record-shattering 411 citizens in the first half of 2014 and a total of 852 people in the last 15 months, including at least eight juveniles, according to a new United Nations report that will be introduced to the organisation’s General Assembly this […]
Originally published in Christianity Today Walking the streets of Irbil, Johnnie Moore was struck by what he saw. “Christians were everywhere: on the streets, in abandoned buildings, in canvas tents that are not water-proof or winterized,” the former Liberty University chaplain and spokesman wrote of his visit last week to […]
Originally published in Morning Star News In what was termed a “serious blow” to house-church leader Behnam Irani, Iran has sentenced him and two other Christian leaders to six years in prison for their involvement in house churches, human rights groups learned this week. Irani, Abdolreza Ali-Haghnejad and Reza Rabbani, […]
Originally published in Israel Today Yaakov Khalloul, a two-year-old Christian child from the Galilee, made history on Mondaywhen he became the first person in Israel’s modern history to be officially registered as an Aramean. (Photo via Israel Today) To date, all Christians in Israel have been registered with population authorities as […]
Originally published in Yahoo News Iraqi pilots who have joined Islamic State in Syria are training members of the group to fly in three captured fighter jets, a group monitoring the war said on Friday, saying it was the first time the militant group had taken to the air. The […]
Originally published in Assist News Service Working in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region day and night to help meet the needs of people displaced by the threats and violence of the Islamic State (IS) or (ISIS) in Mosul, and other areas, members of an Iraqi ministry team recently came into contact […]
Prominent leaders of major Jewish and Christian global organisations this week announced an historic joint initiative calling on world leaders to take urgent, determined actions to halt the brutal persecution of Christians in the Middle East. The joint initiative was unveiled at a press conference on Monday (October 13) at […]