Christianity

The two religious leaders signed a document on “human fraternity for world peace and living together”

Assyrians

Middle East Christians, with the population of Sweden, Celebrate Christmas

Juan Cole

The Shadow of ISIL has Receded for Most Christians in the Region

Christianity

Arab Christmas Music Concert: Majida el Roumi (MTV Lebanon)

contributors

MTV | (Music Video) – MTV Lebanon: Majida el Roumi Christmas Concert

Christianity

Christmas and Sufism: Rumi on the Nativity and the Christ Within

Juan Cole

When we work through our pain, our inner Jesus is born.

Christianity

Can we Make Christmas Sustainable?

The Conversation

What would Jesus Want?

Climate Change

Shorter Pope Francis to Big Oil: You’re Going to Hell if You don’t Go Green

Juan Cole

Pope Francis on Saturday forthrightly reminded Big Oil that climate change is a moral issue

Christianity

Pope, after Gaza violence, says ‘defenceless’ being killed in Holy Land

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Middle East Monitor | – – Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there “does not spare the defenceless”, Reuters reports. The pope made his appeal in his “Urbi et Orbi” (to the […]

Christianity

Jesus wasn’t white: he was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew: & why that matters

Juan Cole

By Robyn J. Whitaker | (The Conversation) | – – I grew up in a Christian home, where a photo of Jesus hung on my bedroom wall. I still have it. It is schmaltzy and rather tacky in that 1970s kind of way, but as a little girl I loved it. In this picture, Jesus […]

History

‘These are the keys of this paradise’: how 700 years of Muslim rule in Spain came to an end

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By Elizabeth Drayson | (The Conversation) | – – It was the moment which set Spain on a course to become the greatest power in early modern Europe. On January 2, 1492 Abdallah Muhammad bin Ali, or Muhammad XII, known as Boabdil, the last Moorish sultan of Granada and head of the Nasrid dynasty, surrendered […]