Turkey Turns On Its Christians - Middle East Forum
2017年6月23日 · Anti-Christmas Campaigns. Anti-Christian incitement continued apace after the coup. In February 2017, Turkey’s Association of Protestant Churches released its annual “Rights Violation Report,” which claimed that anti-Christian hate speech had increased in Turkey in both social and conventional media, reaching extreme levels during the 2016 Christmas season.
Turkey's Christians under Siege - Middle East Forum
2011年3月1日 · Persecution, however, is by no means limited to the deep state. Like their counterparts in most of the Islamic Middle East, Turkey’s Christians are effective hostages to the arbitrary actions of powerful elites, made up of Islamic state and non-state actors who collectively monopolize violence.
Turkey’s Mass Persecution of Christians and Kurds in Diyarbakır
2017年9月4日 · Originally published under the title “Turkey’s Mass Persecution of Christians and Kurds.” Since 2015, the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been attacking Kurdish-majority areas in the country. ... The clashes have taken their toll on Turkey’s Christian population, which is caught in the crossfire.
Egypt - Persecution - Middle East Forum
1999年9月9日 · In 1998, the United States government enacted the Freedom from Religious Persecution Act, sponsored by Representative Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) and Senator Arlen Spector (R-Pa.), proclaiming: “Governments have a primary responsibility to promote, encourage, and protect respect for the fundamental and internationally recognized right to freedom of ...
Muslim and Non-Muslim Persecution of Christians, Compared
2015年2月5日 · The histories compiled by objective, medieval Muslims make abundantly clear that century after century of religious persecution and discrimination is responsible for transforming territory that in the seventh century made up half of the Christian world—Egypt, Syria, Turkey, North Africa—into what is today casually called the “Muslim world.”
The ‘Drip-Drip’ Genocide of Christians in Muslim Lands
2024年5月28日 · Today, North Africa and Turkey are about 97 percent Muslim — even though, along with Egypt and Syria, both regions once formed the heart of the Christian world. (St. Augustine, the father of Western Christian theology, hailed from modern-day Algeria; and Anatolia — “Turkey” — is the site of the oldest churches that received epistles ...
Juliana Taimoorazy Explains Who the Assyrian Christians Are and …
2022年11月7日 · Juliana Taimoorazy, an Assyrian Christian and founder of the humanitarian organization, Iraqi Christian Relief Council, was hosted by Cliff Smith, director of the Middle East Forum’s Washington Project, at a November 7 th Middle East Forum Webinar . The two discussed Taimoorazy’s advocacy on behalf of persecuted Christians of the Middle ...
The Inside Story of the U.S. Pastor Held Hostage by Turkey
2022年11月19日 · This is an important distinction to make because there are ancient Christian communities in Turkey, including Greeks and Armenians. Modern Turkey was born in the wake of World War I and the destruction of the Ottoman Empire, and many historic Christian communities suffered persecution in the country over the last 100 years.
The Existential Elephant in the ‘Christian Persecution’ Room
2014年1月17日 · In other words, those persecuting Christians in 41 of 50 nations are Muslims; that is, a whopping 82% of all persecution around the globe is being committed by the adherents of Islam—sometimes in Christian majority nations; for example, the Central African Republic which, after the 2013 Islamic takeover, now ranks #16, “severe persecution ...
Congressman pleads for Christian pastor’s life - meforum.org
2014年1月22日 · “This will give me a worldwide platform to speak out about religious freedom issues and Christian persecution,” she said. Abedini first was held in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison and later was transferred to an even worse location – the 22,000-inmate Rajai Shahr, home to drug dealers, murderers and rapists.