Tag: Religious Minorities

Government Report Highlights Policy Priorities for Middle Eastern Christians

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Public Orthodoxy

June 22, 2020

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Middle Eastern Christianity

Religious Freedom, Religious Minorities, Steven Howard, United States Commission for International Religious Freedom

by Steven Howard The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) recently released its 2020 Annual Report. As Christian persecution intensifies across the globe, the report provides much needed data and findings from high-persecution regions, such as the Middle East. Importantly, it also recommends the worst violators of religious freedom at the governmental level […]
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The Armenian Patriarchate and the Sanasaryan Han

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Public Orthodoxy

March 28, 2019

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Middle Eastern Christianity

Armenian Orthodoxy, Christopher Sheklian, Religious Minorities, Sanasaryan Han, Turkey

by Christopher Sheklian Last month, the Court of Cassation in Turkey ruled that the historic and contested Sanasaryan Han will be the property of the Turkish state. Built in 1895, the Han (“Inn”) was bought by the foundation established by the philanthropist Mkrtich Sanasaryan to support the Sanasaryan College in the city of Erzurum in […]
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