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The Christian practices of tithing and fasting may be a factor in bolstering the level of prosperity for poor people, according to a recent study of Dalit Indians conducted by Rebecca Shah of Georgetown University.
Nepal’s burgeoning Christian community’s demand for a burial ground seemed headed for a collision with the Hindus with the Supreme Court Wednesday deciding to resolve two separate suits together.
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The Christian attempt to transform American society through politics has failed and may actually be counterproductive for Christianity, according to University of Virginia sociologist James Davison Hunter.
Richard Cimino is the founder and editor of Religion Watch, a newsletter monitoring trends in contemporary religion. Since January 2008, Religion Watch is published by Religioscope Institute. Website: www.religionwatch.com.
Dbayee is unique amongst the network of Palestinian camps in Lebanon for the Christian faith and identity of its residents. Indeed, it is the only all-Christian camp for Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
© 2010 Mahan Abedin
Police ordered two Algerian churches to cease activity last week, the latest in a series of 10 church closures and further court cases against foreign and local Christians.
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Four Iraqi churches and three convents were damaged in coordinated bomb blasts in the morning of January 6, the day many Iraqi Christians celebrate either Epiphany or Christmas Eve according to some Eastern liturgical calendars. At least six people were injured, one seriously.
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A new plan for Christian self-autonomy within Iraq’s Kurdish region has sparked debate among Iraqi Christian leaders desperate to halt the mass exit of Christians from Iraq. Iraq’s half-a-dozen or more historical churches, many of them dating back to the first three centuries after Christ, agree that something must be done to preserve their existence. But consensus on a solution has proven elusive.
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Imaginations and exaggerations poison the atmosphere between Egypt’s Christians and Muslims, but a Dutch-Egyptian private initiative to build a press archive and a website intends to change this.
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The Centre for Arab-West Understanding (CAWU), based in Egypt, publishes Arab-West Report, a weekly English language electronic overview of articles published in the Egyptian press. The centre is also building a searchable electronic documentation centre of around 12,000 translated articles and special reports on issues related to Muslim-Christian, Arab-West understanding. For more information about subscriptions or CAWU itself, see http://www.cawu.org.
CAWU meanwhile is seeking financial support to keep its work going.
Less than 24 hours after armed gunmen kidnapped the Syrian Catholic archbishop of Mosul, the 66-year-old cleric was set free today unharmed. Although kidnapping has become a common phenomenon in Iraq, it remains unclear whether the motive of Casmoussa’s abductors was political, religious or financial.
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A quiet but steady hemorrhaging of Iraq’s ancient Christian presence is underway and little is being done to stem the flow. Written threats, kidnappings, bombings and murder by Muslim extremists are driving thousands of Iraq’s minority Christian population out of their ancestral homeland, fleeing for safety to neighboring Jordan and Syria.
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