This article focuses on the Palestinian Christian community in contemporary Jordan, tracing the evolution of the community's social, religious, and political identities since 1948 to the present day. Incorporating material from interviews conducted within the past two years, the article assesses the impact of local and global developments on the microidentities within the Palestinian-Jordanian community and the significance of religion in the context of sustaining the Palestinian heritage for future generations residing in the diaspora.
Pope Benedict's Appeal for a New Iraq Initiative Backed WASHINGTON, Nov. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Christian Solidarity International (CSI) has urged President Obama to act to prevent the eradication of Iraq's endangered Christian community.
Christian America may soon be the death of Iraqi Christians. Although Islam long has been in the ascendancy in Iraq, the so- called Assyrians, who speak a neo-Aramaic language, predate the rise of Islam. Today, however, the Iraqi Christian community faces possible extermination. The irony is extraordinary: America, a nation with deep Christian roots, has inadvertently loosed the vicious forces bent on destroying Iraqi Christians. Persecuted by Islamic extremists and targeted for their frequent cooperation with occupation authorities, Christians have ever less hope in a nation that has fallen into violent chaos.
Religious tolerance is under attack. The targeting of Christians in Iraq threatens not only a historic community of hundreds of thousands of souls, but the very heart of Western democracy. Tolerance to all religious groups was one of the founding ideas of the American way. We can take pride in having exported it to large areas of the globe. All people have benefited from this, not just minorities and people of faith. Generally, governments that refuse to extend full protection to religious identification and expression are governments that take personal liberties lightly. Experience has shown that those governments cannot be trusted to keep to agreements, making our efforts on their behalf worthless. The health of religious liberty is therefore a good test of where to commit our resourc...
REDLANDS It's not always such a bad thing when a college is going places. Community Christian College, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year, has had a nomadic past, starting out using Arrowhead Christian Academy's campus, then moving to a house on Orange Street which really didn't advance the school's image.
Maybe I am seen as a representative of temptation and wickedness for challenging their ministers' teachings-or perhaps they just can't offer any convincing defense for the occupation, dispossession, collective punishment, torture, killing and maiming of civilians that have formed an essential part of the project of replacing one people with another in Palestine, and that seem very far removed from the example of the teacher who they profess to follow. According to the report, of the 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, 61.9 percent live in the Asia-Pacific region, stretching from Pakistan eastward to Japan and from Mongolia southward to New Zealand.
To: RELIGION EDITORS Contact: CAIR-Los Angeles Communications Manager, Munira Syeda, +1-714-776-1847, +1-714-851-4851, info@losangeles.cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director, Ibrahim Hooper, +1-202-488-8787 or +1-202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR Communications Coordinator, Amina Rubin, +1-202-488-8787, arubin@cair.com
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