Tag: Palestinian Territories

Bulldozers unearth church ruins, keep digging

April 8, 2016 Palestinian Territories Gaza, Israel, Palestinian Territories

When construction crews building a shopping centre in Gaza unearthed the ruins of what appeared to be a Byzantine church about 1,500 years old, local authorities did not halt the work to preserve the site. Instead, bulldozers continued in early April to prepare the site, wiping away the traces of . . . Read More

Report: Christianity contracting in MidEast, Africa

October 16, 2015 Global News -- No Particular Country Africa, Belarus, Boko Haram, China, David Cameron, Egypt, Eritrea, Europe, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Jordan, Kenya, London, Middle East, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Pope Francis, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sudan, Syria, Tanzania, Turkey, Turkmenistan, UK, Ukraine, Vietnam

Christianity is fast disappearing from entire regions, most notably a huge chunk of the Middle East, and could vanish from Iraq within five years, according to a new report by Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. Released in the UK’s House of Lords on Tuesday, the report, “Persecuted and . . . Read More

Growing signs of ISIS activity in Jerusalem

July 1, 2015 Israel Islamic extremism, Islamic State, Israel, Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories, Ramadan

A new Islamist threat to Christians has emerged in Jerusalem, according to Middle East Concern. On 25 June leaflets were distributed in East Jerusalem by a group calling itself Islamic State in Palestine. The leaflets bore the black flag of ISIS and carried a message warning Christians to leave Jerusalem . . . Read More

Christian farmers refusing to leave Bethlehem

June 19, 2015 Palestinian Territories Bethlehem, Israel, Palestinian Territories, West Bank

A Palestinian Christian family living in Israel’s West Bank and surrounded by Israeli settlements is battling to hold on to land they have owned for 98 years. Daher Nassar owns apple orchards that have been bulldozed under the protection of Israeli soldiers. When he asked them why, he was told by . . . Read More

Anti-Christian slogans in Jerusalem alarm Church

May 12, 2014 Israel Arabs, Catholics, Israel, Jerusalem, Jews, Palestinian Territories

Jerusalem’s Roman Catholic Church has expressed alarm over threats to Christians scrawled by suspected Jewish extremists on church property in the Holy Land. In an incident, known as ‘price-tagging’, “Death to Arabs and Christians and all those who hate Israel” was written in Hebrew on an outer column of the . . . Read More

‘Persecuted: The Global Assault on Christians’

June 5, 2013 Global News -- No Particular Country Afghanistan, Algeria, Arab Spring, Armenia, Asia Bibi, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belarus, Central Asia, China, Communism, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Islamic extremism, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Middle East, Morocco, Myanmar, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Russia, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen

This is a book designed to show that “Christians are the single most widely persecuted religious group in the world today” (p4). With that aim, three authors well known in the field of religious advocacy give the reader the ultimate global briefing on the causes, patterns and trends in the persecution . . . Read More

Victims of explosion in Israel lament plea agreement

May 31, 2012 Israel Ariel, Israel, Jerusalem, Messianic Jews, Orthodox Jews, Palestinian Territories, USA, West Bank

A Messianic Jewish congregation leader whose son was almost killed by a bomb planted by an ultra-right wing Jew said he feels like the Israeli criminal justice system has abandoned him. On Monday (May 28), the Jerusalem District Court approved a plea agreement for the man accused of bombing pastor . . . Read More

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