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Week in Review

Week in Review

דצמ' 23, 2017

Syrians gather around a Christmas tree in Aleppo's government controlled Aziziyah neighbourhood on December 31, 2016. / AFP / George OURFALIAN (Photo credit should read GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images)

החלטתו של ממשל טראמפ להכיר בירושלים כבירת ישראל, ובעקבותיה גם ההחלטה של 128 מדינות לגנות את ארה"ב בשבוע שעבר באסיפה הכללית של האו"ם, קלקלה מעט, אם כי לא לגמרי, את שמחת החג של הנוצרים במזרח התיכון.

Pilgrims celebrate Christmas under Church of the Nativity's new roof

Ibrahim Abdelhadi

Ibrahim Abdelhadi

Iconic Armenian church survives war but not plunder in Turkey

Mahmut Bozarslan

Mahmut Bozarslan

Diyarbakir's Christians suffer in margins of Turkey-PKK war

Amberin Zaman

Amberin Zaman

In London, reporting on geopolitics, minorities, human rights, culture

Armenian Bishop Datev Hagopian attends a wreath laying ceremony after a special prayer marking the anniversary of mass killings of Armenians in Ottoman Empire in 1915, outside the Armenian Church in Bucharest April 24, 2012. Armenia, backed by many historians and parliaments, says that about 1.5 million Christian Armenians were killed in what is now eastern Turkey during World War One in a deliberate policy of genocide ordered by the Ottoman government. Successive Turkish governments and the vast majority o

Turkey’s Islamized Armenians Grapple With Tragic Roots

Sibel Utku Bila

Sibel Utku Bila