Tag: iran

Will Middle East’s Aramaic language survive? – Al Arabiya News

By Dina al-Shibeeb | Al Arabiya News Wednesday, 25 December 2013 The survival of Aramaic, once the Middle East’s lingua franca, is in jeopardy amid regional turmoil. The United Nations Educational, Scientific…

AINA: MPs Debate Persecution of Christians

MPs raised concerns over the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle East in a debate held in Westminster Hall this week. “Extreme suffering” Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, who led the debate,…

The Church of the East, by David Bentley Hart

Jan 28, 2011 FIRST THINGS  As you may be aware, several Christian churches in Kirkuk, Mosul, Basra, and Baghdad, as well as throughout the rest of Iraq, cancelled their festivities this past…