Children at an Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza City on Jan. 7, 2023. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty ImagesA bomb struck the complex of the historic Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza on Oct. 19, 2023, killing more than a dozen of the hundreds of Christians and Muslims taking shelter inside and wounding others. As a historian of Roman Christianity who focuses on the Eastern Mediterranean, I am often confronted by the complexity of this region. Many Christian and Musli
(The Conversation) Many Christian and Muslim families in Gaza today were displaced following the creation of new Arab and Jewish states. Today, Palestinian Christians occupy a complicated place in this region.
"It was a pogrom." These were the words of Brandeis University Professor Ilan Troen describing the events that led to his daughter Deborah s death. They were on the phone when she and husband, Shlomi, were murdered by Hamas terrorists who launched a brutal attack on Israeli civilians on Oct. 7.