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lunedì 24 marzo 2014

Protesta di israeliani cristiani nei confronti dell'Unione Europea e per denunciare le persecuzioni anticristiani in altri paesi del Medio Oriente.

Il giornale israeliano "israel Today" del 24 marzo 2014 ha pubblicato l'articolo che segue, a seguito della manifestazione organizzata da Padre Gabriel Nadaf per protestare contro la visione squilibrata dell' Unione Europea nei confronti di Israele e per denunciare il silenzio nei confronti delle persecuzioni anticristiane in tanti paesi dell'area mediorientale.


Christians to EU: Israel is Our Safe Haven
Israel Today Monday, March 24, 2014.

Some 150 Israeli Arabic-speaking Christians on Sunday demonstrated outside
the European Union mission in Tel Aviv, demanding that the international
community stop nitpicking against Israel and start combatting the severe
persecution of Christians everywhere else in the Middle East.

"Nations, organizations and international missions are quick to raise an
accusing finger against Israel at every opportunity," said Father Gabriel
Nadaf, spiritual father of the Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum, which
organized the rally.

Those same nations and organizations "don't life a finger against the ethnic
cleansing of Christians in the Middle East," the priest continued.

Father Nadaf went on to explain that from Syria to Egypt to Iraq to the
Palestinian Authority, Christians on a daily basis suffer intimidation,
harassment, desecration, coercion, torture, rape, physical abuse and murder.
"According to the statistics, a Christian is murdered every five minutes [in
the Middle East], and the Western world is silent about this," he lamented.

In messages posted to its Facebook page during the Tel Aviv rally, the
Israeli Christian Recruitment Forum insisted that "there is no place but
Israel that is safe for Christians in the Middle East!"

While the rally was largely ignored by the mainstream Western media, the
Israeli press took great interest, and forum spokesman Shadi Khalloul, a
veteran of the IDF, was interviewed by various television and print media
outlets.

Khalloul has spoken numerous times with Israel Today regarding the Christian
awakening within Israel, and the bonds of brotherhood than bind local
Christians to the Jewish people and the Jewish state.

Last month, Israel's Knesset took the first important step toward
recognizing local Christians as an independent minority separate from the
Arab Muslims. Both Nadaf and Khalloul say this is necessary, since local
Christians were here before the Arab Muslim conquest around 600 AD.

A growing number of Israelis, including lawmakers and opinion shapers, are
likewise waking up to the strong Christian minority in their midst, a
minority that has been long neglected, but which is now beginning to boldly
take its place alongside the Jews.

venerdì 14 marzo 2014

IL MONDO EBRAICO SI APPRESTA A CELEBRARE LA FESTA DI PURIM DELL'ANNO 5774

Allo Shabbath (il Sabato ebraico) seguirà quest'anno la festività di Purim 5774 (2014) che quindi inizierà il 15/3 sera per concludersi domenica al tramonto.
Dagli archivi è attinto il testo che COMUNITANDO - Livorno Ebraica propone in questa occasione, riprendendo un discorso tenuto a Radio RAI, alcuni decenni or sono, dall'allora Rabbino Capo di Padova Achille Viterbo.
Una lezione che vogliamo simbolicamente dedicare alla memoria della consorte, Signora Sara Viterbo Colombo (z.l.),sia il suo ricordo per benedizione, scomparsa nei giorni scorsi e nipote del Rabbino Samuele Colombo (z.l.) indimenticabile Maestro che resse la Cattedra Rabbinica livornese dal 1900 al 1923.