On March 10, Iran and Saudi Arabia announced a deal, brokered by Beijing, normalizing diplomatic relations between the historic rivals.
12/28/2022 Lebanon (International Christian Concern) – Bishops in Lebanon and Ireland have united in condemning the murder of an Irish United Nations peacekeeper whose vehicle was...
12/25/2022 MENA (International Christian Concern) – Reporters Without Borders completed its annual freedom press index which reviews how journalism is accepted in each country. Within...
12/02/2022 Turkey (International Christian Concern) – During November 28th-29th, at the Monastery of Notre Dame du Putis in Bkennaya, Lebanon, the Executive Committee of the Middle East...
By Linda Burkle, PhD Blasphemy laws “ban speech or actions considered to be ‘contemptuous of God or of people or objects considered sacred.”[1] Many such laws are vague and applied...
07/30/2022 Lebanon (International Christian Concern) – As Lebanese President Michel Aoun’s six-year term approaches its October 31 close, Christians in Lebanon are concerned for their...
07/27/2022 Lebanon (International Christian Concern) - Lebanese Maronite Archbishop Musa Al-Hajj was detained and interrogated upon his return from a trip to Israel on July 19. Al-Hajj,...
03/07/2022 Iran (International Christian Concern) – Iran is an overlooked source of Christian persecution in the Middle East, according to a senior fellow with The Philos Project. In a...
02/25/2022 Syria (International Christian Concern) – A church previously utilized by the Islamic State in Raqqa, Syria, has been restored to its glory after five years. Before the...
12/31/2021 Syria (International Christian Concern) – Newly imposed currency travel restrictions for those entering Syria have been lifted for Christian clergy. Christian clergy often...
12/18/2021 Middle East (International Christian Concern) – A new report by Aid to the Church in Need (CAN), titled “Hear Her Cries: the kidnapping, forced conversion and sexual...
11/01/2021 Lebanon (International Christian Concern) – As Christians in Lebanon face increasingly dire situations, Syriac Catholic Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan warned that the...
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