Posts Tagged ‘jordan’
Features
Sudanese refugee graduates college, helps another student, returns home
Dut Aguer Bior was separated from his family as a child in Sudan. When he was six years old, he traveled 1,000 miles to a refugee camp in Ethiopia, where he would spend the rest of his adolescence.
News
Iranian Pastor Nadarkhani’s attorney sentenced to 9 years in prison
Prominent human rights advocate and attorney Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, who represents imprisoned pastor Yousef Nadarkhani, has reportedly been sentenced to nine years in jail for allegedly "acting against national security" in Iran.
Arts & Culture
Jordan fights for possession of Christian books that may precede writings of St. Paul
Jordan is fighting to take possession of some 70 books that may, if authentic, precede the writings of St. Paul. The books, which were found in a Jordanian cave, that tell of how Jesus died on the cross, rose from the dead, and...
Arts & Culture
Christians like, hate BBC TV series, The Nativity
Some Christians feel the BBC TV series, The Nativity, is not faithful enough to the bible, while others believe that by lending a human perspective to the story, the birth of Christ becomes a more genuinely felt experience for ...
More Iraqi Christians flee to Jordan because of persecution
Amid stepped up violence against Christians in Iraq, many Iraqis have fled to neighboring Jordan as a stepping stone to get to the U.S., Australia, Canada or Europe. According to the AFP, many Christians fled to Jordan because ...
Causes
Israel, Jordan and green group dispute Jordan River’s pollution
Israel denies it, Jordan ignores it, and a green group claims that the water of the Jordan River where Jesus is believed to have been baptized is unsafe. The ecology group Friends of the Earth Middle East claims that the Jordan...