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The sights and sounds of Israel s oldest religious communities
Step back in time with a visit to the hidden communities of the Holy Land, the cradle of Judaism and Christianity and home to different Jewish and Christian offshoots that split from their respective mainstreams centuries ago
Uri Sharon |
Published: 04.10.21 , 08:51
Spring is one of the best seasons to travel in Israel and with Israeli returning to normality thanks to the world’s fastest vaccine rollout, domestic tourism is already booming and international tourism is expected to return shortly.
Any visit to Israel should of course include all the usual highlights - Jerusalem’s Old City, Acre, Nazareth, Tel Aviv, the Dead Sea, to name just a few.
The World Awaits First-Ever Papal Visit to The Biblical Communities of Iraq albawaba.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from albawaba.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LONDON/ROME: No one knows how many Iraqi Christians will flock to witness the historic visit of Pope Francis to Iraq, for the simple reason that no one knows exactly how many of the faithful remain in a country that can trace its Christian roots back to the earliest days of the faith.
Plagued by years of internal strife following the US-led invasion in 2003, Iraq has not conducted a census of its population since 1997.
One planned for 2020, the year the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, was not carried out. But while estimates of the number of Christians in Iraq have varied over the years, they have all agreed on one thing that in modern times, the population of one of the oldest Christian communities in the world has steadily dwindled in the face of increasing insecurity and persecution.