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Jordan
Map reflects the 30 most recent Persecution Reports. Click HERE for the Map Legend.
Sunday, November 25th, 2012
Sheikh Hamam Sai’d, the head of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, is behind protests in the country, the Jewish Press reports. According to the article, the Brotherhood has garnered some US support in Jordan despite America’s close alliance with the Jordanian monarchy. Sai’d’s radical rhetoric, hard-line ideology, and support for Hamas in Gaza would not only be detrimental to US- Jordan relations if the Brotherhood were to gain political influence, but it would also bring instability to one of the only stable countries remaining in the Middle East. Moreover, the Brotherhood’s political and religious agenda remains one of the greatest threats to Jordan’s small Christian community and the rights of all religious minorities in the country.
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Saturday, June 30th, 2012
Raymond Ibrahim writes for the Gatestone Institute that, “In Indonesia, Muslims threw bags of urine on Christians during worship; in Kashmir and Zanzibar, churches were set on fire; and in Mali, Christianity ‘faces being eradicated.’” Ibrahim’s series, titled ‘Muslim Persecution of Christians,’ is published each month to document cases of persecution – whether it be general discrimination, arrests, or murder – committed by Muslims in majority Islamic countries, Asia and the West.
Posted in Africa, Asia, Countries, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Indonesia, Iran, Islam, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Macedonia, Mali, Middle East, News, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sudan, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, Tanzania, Uzbekistan | No Comments »
Friday, June 22nd, 2012
Hundreds of Iraqi Christians who fled persecution in their homeland have found a safe haven in Jordan, but they still face many difficulties as refugees, Aid to the Church in Need reports.
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Monday, May 28th, 2012
“A Christian Jordanian woman said Sunday she is suing her Gulf Arab employer for arbitrary dismissal after she refused a new dress code forcing her to cover her head,” The Associated Press reports.
Posted in Countries, Islam, Jordan, Middle East, News | 3 Comments »
Friday, April 27th, 2012
The survival of Christianity in the Middle East may depend on its ability to make new political alliances and end its dependency on the protection of long-standing, but unpopular regimes, the Guardian reports.
Posted in Africa, Countries, Egypt, Jordan, Middle East, News, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia | 2 Comments »
Sunday, February 19th, 2012
“Islamic law is increasingly used by authoritarian governments and extremist forces in the Muslim world to acquire and consolidate power, experts say, which is becoming an increasing threat to religious minorities, especially Christians,” the Christian Post reports.
Posted in Afghanistan, Africa, Asia, Countries, Egypt, Iran, Islam, Jordan, Middle East, Morocco, News, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Turkey, Yemen | No Comments »
Saturday, November 26th, 2011
“Fear is… a sentiment voiced often these days by Arab Christians, a sad refrain for an ancient community that was so long a force in politics and culture in the Arab world. These days, a community that still numbers in the millions — with the largest populations in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and the Palestinian territories — finds itself little more than a spectator to events reshaping a place it once helped create, and sometimes a victim of the violence that those events have unleashed,” The New York Times reports.
Posted in Africa, Countries, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Palestinian Areas, West Bank and Gaza | No Comments »
Sunday, November 20th, 2011
“The real danger of having no Christian presence in the Middle East within the next 5 years will be one of the main topics at a upcoming conference hosted by Dr. Rob Dalrymple Director of the Bible Accadamy at Cornerstone Fellowship.”
Posted in Countries, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, West Bank and Gaza | 1 Comment »
Sunday, April 24th, 2011
The Financial Times reports on the rise of persecution and decline of Christianity throughout the Middle East.
Posted in Africa, Countries, Egypt, Iraq, Islam, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, News, Palestinian Areas, Syria, Syrian Arab Republic, West Bank and Gaza | No Comments »
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Some church leaders questioned the recently released U.S. State Department report regarding religious freedom in Jordan, which stated: “The government continued to harass some citizens and resident foreign groups suspected of proselytising Muslims and a few Muslim coverts to Christianity, including by attempting to induce them to revert to Islam."
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Sunday, November 22nd, 2009
Along the Jordan River “the Christian church has not forgotten the legacy of those first followers of Christ.”
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
"I urge diplomats and the international community they represent, together with local political and religious leaders, to do everything possible to ensure the ancient Christian community of that noble land its fundamental right to peaceful coexistence with their fellow citizens,"
Posted in Iraq, Islam, Jordan, News | No Comments »
Monday, May 11th, 2009
Conflict and persecution from radical Muslims is forcing Christians to flee from the Middle East. Pope Benedict XVI encouraged the Christians in the region to preserve in their faith despite the difficulties they face.
Posted in Jordan, News | No Comments »
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
Three Islamist extremists are sentenced for more than 22 years imprisonment after they attempted to bomb a Church in Jordan.
Posted in Islam, Jordan, News | No Comments »
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
"If we don't act, there will be no more Christians soon in the land where Christ was born,"
Posted in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Jordan, News, Palestine, Syria | No Comments »
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
"In Syria and in Jordan and Iraq and Afghanistan great things are happening and many Muslims are open to the Lord Jesus Christ right now,"
Posted in Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Islam, Jordan, News, Priority News, Syria | No Comments »
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Members of Al Qaeda-linked group carried out attacks against a Christian choir group and a church in Jordan.
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Twelve Jordanian Muslims are brought before justice for attacking a church and a Christian cemetery.
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Saturday, October 25th, 2008
“My sister’s husband was killed in Baghdad last year and now I am worried that his brother has been killed too. They are killing the Christians. What is our fault? How are we ever supposed to return to our country? If I ever return, I will come back [to Jordan] in a coffin.”
Posted in Iraq, Islam, Jordan, News | No Comments »
Friday, October 24th, 2008
Radical Islam is spreading at an alarming rate in the Middle East due to the relentless effort by Saudi Arabia to radicalize Muslims. The traditional and more tolerant version of Islam is becoming a thing of the past. The flourishing of radical Islam results in more persecution of Christians and other religious minorities.
Posted in Egypt, Islam, Jordan, News, Priority News, Saudi Arabia | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
"In Jordan, a Sharia Court found a convert from Islam to Christianity guilty of apostasy, annulled his marriage, and declared him to be without any religious identity,"
Posted in Algeria, Islam, Jordan, News | No Comments »
Saturday, July 19th, 2008
Christians are highly persecuted in the countries of the Middle East and other Muslim-dominated areas of the world. Additionally, when they apply for refugee status to settle in Western countries, they are discriminated against by local Muslim officials who work for Western governments and international organizations.
Posted in Australia, Egypt, Islam, Jordan, News | No Comments »
Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Converting from Islam to Christianity or any other religion can result in death of the convert. This has been one of the primary reason of persecution in many Muslim countries.
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Recently foreign Christians were expelled from Jordan. According to this story, Jordanian Christians are also facing persecution.
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
“I can’t win this case as long as I insist that I converted from Islam to Christianity,”
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
The king has to realize there is a cost to this reaction. Christians are an important part of the economic well-being of Jordan,
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Thursday, March 6th, 2008
The White House is expressing its concern over expulsion of foreign evangelical christians from that country. King of Jordan is currently in United States.
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