Bishop Munib Younan from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land told Premier's News Hour the violence is forcing
Christians out of the region: «They are emigrating in order to secure a future for their children.
Not exact matches
Latin American
Christians demand the right to think through the faith in the light
of their own situation, to set their own theological agenda and work
out their own responses to the questions
of the
region.
While well - organised, militarised groups are active on the ground, bent on driving
out all those who do not agree with their vision
of Islam, there will be no security for the
region's
Christians.
Jesus would say that all that great host do not belong to him... they are an offended bunch for whatever
region... if you were to observe Christianity through all those four forms you would change your mind and say that all
Christians should strive to be what Jesus said
of the good ground... good
Christians in that parable are
out numbered 3 to 1...
(There are no seminaries or
Christian colleges on the affected islands; most training in the
region comes
out of Jamaica, Barbados, or Trinidad and Tobago.)
Ironically, the very fact the bishops are making these «bold» statements is a testament to Israel's essential decency and humanity» the bishops know there will be no serious consequences or massive reprisals against
Christians in Israel for «speaking
out,» whereas any similar
Christian criticism» or even questioning»
of an Arab government in the
region, or Islamic extremism, would» well, we all saw what happened after Regensburg.
At some length and with deep knowledge
of the
region, these articulate and informed South Carolinian
Christians discussed how their fellow - believers were being wiped
out across the Middle East and how, at home in America, secular judges were taking away religious liberties and «legislating from the bench.»
Speaking
of The hidden history
of Christianity in Asia, John C. England, a church historian from New Zealand, rightly points
out that unfortunately only a few churches in the
region have retained a strong sense that their history began in the early century
of Christian era.
The people
of western
region are mostly
Christians and Muslims which believes L&G are firty culture imported into the country and will go all
out to make people who practice this «animalist» act misarable in the
region.
A guerrilla war took place through the 1980s and 1990s in which much
of the countryside was evacuated, thousands
of Kurdish - populated villages were destroyed by the government, and numerous summary executions were carried
out by both sides.However they were later driven
out of Hazza by pagans, and settled in Tamanon, which according to Abdisho was in the land
of the Kurds.Tamanon lies just north
of the modern Iraq - Turkey border, while Hazza is 12 km southwest
of modern Erbil.One
of the earliest records
of the phrase land
of the Kurds is found in an Assyrian
Christian document
of late antiquity, describing the stories
of Assyrian saints
of the Middle East, such as Abdisho.When the Sasanian Marzban asked Mar Abdisho about his place
of origin, he replied that according to his parents, they were originally from Hazza, a village in Assyria.The
region came under Persian rule during the reign
of Cyrus the Great and Darius I.
Dr.
Christian Leutenegger, head
of molecular diagnostics for Idexx, said clusters
of cases occurring in a relatively short period within a particular geographic
region stand
out because positive results on canine influenza tests typically pop up in more scattered fashion.
The civil war between the Islamic North Sudan, led by the dictator Omar Al - Bashir, and the predominantly
Christian Southern rebel army meant that until very recently, the whole
region was
out of bounds.