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divinum-pacis · 3 years

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History of Syro Malabar Church

From St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Church in Bronx, NY.

The Syro Malabar Church is one of the 21 Oriental Rites in the Universal Church.

The Apostles went around the world and preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ to different ethnic groups and cultures. Those people understood the Gospel Values with different cultural interpretations. They expressed their Faith through celebrations in different styles, languages, & cultures. Thus different Liturgies were formed and developed in the East which are listed in 5 Fundamental Families, namely: Alexandrian, Antiochean, Armenian, Chaldean, and Byzantine. And there are many different filial Churches in each Family.

And Latin Liturgy was developed in the West.

The Church made it’s distinction of East and West depending upon the 2 Capitals of the Great Roman Empire. All the Churches which came under the Capital City of Rome were called the Western Churches and all the Churches which came under the Capital City of Constantinople (Byzantium) were called the Eastern Churches.

Among the Eastern Churches, there are six Patriarchal Churches:

Coptic

Syrian

Maronite

Armenian

Chaldean

Melkite

There are two Major Archiepiscopal Churches:

Ukranian

Syro Malabar

The Syro Malabar Church was founded by St.Thomas, one of the 12 Apostles, who came to India in AD 52. He preached in different Kingdoms all around the Subcontinent and established seven and a half Ecclesial Communities in Malabar, today called Kerala. After 20 years of His Mission Work, He was martyred in Mylapore, near Madras by a fanatic Hindu priest on July 3rd in AD 72. The whole world celebrates the Martyrdom of St.Thomas on July 3rd and it is a day of obligation for the Syro Malabarians.

The early Christians of India were converted from the High Caste Hindus. They were ;called St.Thomas Christians and they developed into an Indigenous Individual Church until the 4th century.

Then the Persians came and dominated over the Indian Church and imposed their Chaldean Liturgy over us for about 1000 years. They were importing bishops from Persia from the Chaldean Church. They never ordained an Indian Bishop.

When the Portuguese arrived and colonized India in the beginning of the 16th century, they also imposed their Latin Liturgy and latinized us and restricted our freedom of development for 4oo years. They were also importing Bishops from abroad and they never ordained any Indian Bishop. They burned our Liturgical Texts and Vestments.

We were liberated by Pope Pius IX in 1896 by establishing a Syro Malabar Hierarchy. But this dynamic Church’s operations were limited to a very small territory between two rivers; namely: Pambayar and Bharatha Puzha. We were not allowed to do Mission Work in Our Own Rite. Those who wanted, had to adopt the Latin Rite. Only in 1952, the late Cardinal Tisserant, Prefect of the Oriental Congregation, who studied our history and knew the beauty of our Church, recommended to the Holy Father to remove those barriers .

Then Pope Pius XII extended our proper territory to Malabar, Mysore, Nilgiris and Trivandrum and established the Diocese of Tellicherry for the migrants from the South. And it was a mile stone in the progress of our Church.

On October 18th,1990, the Code of Canon Law for the Oriental Churches was promulgated in Rome.

After repeated memorandums by the Syro Malabar Bishops’ Conference, His Holiness Pope John Paul II raised our Church on May 20th, 1993 to the Status of a Major Archiepiscopal Church which is next only to a Patriarchal Church in rank and appointed Mar Antony Cardinal Padiyara, our first Major Archbishop, and Archbishop Mar Abraham Kattumana, it’s Pontifical Administrator.

The famous saying of Cardinal Tisserant is worth quoting: The Syro Malabar Church, established in India by St.Thomas the Apostle, is “Christian in Faith, Oriental in Worship, and Indian in Culture.”

This Particular and Individual Church plays a vital role in the missionary and evangelical activities of the Catholic Church around the world. Every year it admits over 2500 candidates for priesthood and religious life, 1500 of whom dedicate themselves to serve in other communities worldwide. Approximately 500 Syro Malabar priests and few hundred nuns serve in various Mission Centers throughout the USA and Canada.

Today, the Syro Malabar Catholic Church is a Sui Juris Particular Church, headed by His Eminence Mar Varkey Cardinal Vithayathil, the 2nd Major Archbishop. It has four Archdioceses, twenty suffragan dioceses and approximately 3000 parishes and semi- parishes. At present, there are fifty five bishops belonging to the Syro Malabar Rite: thirty two serving in Syro Malabar Dioceses and twenty three serving in other dioceses and apostolic offices. There are about 8000 priests in the ministerial priesthood. This makes a remarkable ratio of about one priest for every 500 faithful – an unprecedented number among other Churches. Moreover, 2500 seminarians are studying in various seminaries to join the priesthood. The Syro Malabar Church has approximately one female member in the various Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Order for every 100 members.

The name of our Church was ( Mar Thoma Nazranikal ) which means “Nazrenes of St.Thomas”. In the 19th century, the Oriental Congregation had renamed our Church as Syro Malabar Church. Our Bishops’ Synod has already passed a resolution to change the name of our Church from Syro Malabar Church to “The Church of St.Thomas Christians”.

The main teachings of the Vatican II on Eastern Churches:

a) “All the members of the Eastern Rites should know and be convinced that they can and should always preserve the legitimate liturgical Rite and their established way of life, and that these may not be altered except to obtain for themselves an organic improvement. All these things ;must be observed by the members of the Eastern Rites themselves”. ( Vatican II, Orientalium Ecclesiarum: #6 ).

b) “Each and every Catholic (of Eastern Rites) must retain, each his own Rite wherever he is, and follow it to the best of his ability”. ( #4 )

c) “Those individual Churches of East or West are….of equal rank so that none of them is superior to others because of its Rite”. ( #3 )

d) “All members of the Eastern Churches are to aim always at a more perfect knowledge and practice of their Rites and if they have fallen away due to the circumstances of times and persons, they are to strive to return to their ancestral traditions.” ( #6 )

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“There Was Blood All Over”: Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2021

by Raymond Ibrahim

The following are among the abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of January, 2021:

Attacks on Churches

USA: Arsonists torched an Armenian church in San Francisco in a spike of anti-Armenian hate crimes believed to have been inspired by Armenia’s recent clash with its Muslim neighbors, Azerbaijan and its Turkish supporter. According to the Jan. 6 report,

In the San Francisco Bay Area alone, there have been four hate crimes committed against the Armenian community over the last six months including a local Armenian School being vandalized with hateful and racist graffiti, which was followed by an arson attack on St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church. There are about 2,500 Armenian-Americans living in the San Francisco Bay Area, so these crimes per capita is a very high number given how small the community is. For a region of the country that prides itself on its progressivism, diversity and acceptance of all cultures, these latest attacks should be a warning sign that hate and violence can rear their ugly heads irrespective of where you may live…. The vandals at the Armenian School in San Francisco spray-painted the colors of the Azerbaijan flag and used threatening language in Azerbaijani. In many ways, these latest hate crimes, coupled with the resurgence of hostilities in the South Caucasus, are a continuation of the Armenian Genocide that is now finding its way to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is often said that those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We are clearly seeing these prophetic words come to life for Armenians in the San Francisco Bay Area who have fought for decades for recognition of the Armenian Genocide. As victims of oppression, Armenians see these latest attacks as an extension of Turkey and Azerbaijan’s denial of the 1915 Armenian Genocide and a threat to their very existence.

Sweden: Twice over the course of four days, an 800-year-old church in Stockholm was firebombed. First, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021, several Molotov cocktails were hurled at the twelfth century Spånga church, which is located in a Muslim majority area. According to the church’s pastor, “the alarm was triggered when a window was smashed and flammable liquid thrown at the front gate and one of the windows. However, the fire was quickly put out by the police, who used a powder extinguisher.” The same church had been fire-bombed just four days earlier, on Jan. 20, 2021: two explosives were hurled at and smashed through the church windows, and another was lobbed at the church gate. Moreover, according to one report,

Spånga parish has been subjected to attacks on several previous occasions. In December 2018, an explosive device was detonated in the same parish. No one was convicted for the blast.

Hailing from the 12th century, the Spånga Church is one of the oldest in the Swedish capital. It is located on the outskirts of Tensta and is flanked by Rinkeby, both notorious for their heavy presence of immigrants (about 90 percent of the population)… Both areas are dominated by immigrants from Muslim countries and are formally classified as “particularly vulnerable” (which many consider to be a palatable euphemism for a “no-go zone”) due to failed integration and major problems including unemployment, rampant crime and Islamic extremism.

Attacks against churches have become a familiar sight in Sweden. Last year alone, a number of churches, mostly those in troubled suburban [i.e., heavily Muslim migrant] areas, were subjected to various types of attacks and vandalism, including those in Gottsunda, Uppsala and Rosengård, Malmö.

Philippines: An Islamic group consisting primarily of teenage Muslims opened fire on a church. According to the Jan. 8 report,

the Islamic State-linked Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters [BIFF], a terrorist group based in the southern Philippines, attacked a parish church after conducting a raid on the town’s military and police outposts. After a 15-minute firefight, both the church building and a statue of the patron saint bore bullet holes. Police and military authorities said the BIFF had also plotted to set ablaze Sta. Teresita parish church and the church-run Notre Dame of Dulawan high school in the area. However, their attempt to burn the two church facilities was foiled by policemen and soldiers.

BIFF is an Islamic separatist organization operating in the Philippines; it swore allegiance to the Islamic State in 2014. Right before the church attack, dozens of gunmen from the Islamic group attacked the local police station and burned a police vehicle parked outside. The police attack came after two men connected with the group were arrested and is seen as a reprisal attack against police. Muslim terrorism has been on the rise in the Philippines, the population of which is 86% Christian. According to the report,

In August [2020], pro-ISIS terrorists blew themselves up in attacks that killed at least 15 people … and injured 80 others in the city of Jolo … in the far south of the country, whose population is majority Roman Catholic.

In 2019, terrorists set off two explosive devices at the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Cathedral, also known as the Jolo Cathedral, in the Mindanao region. The attack resulted in approximately 100 injuries and about 20 dead.

In August 2019, pastor Ernesto Javier Estrella of the United Church of Christ in Antipas, Cotabato Province, was shot and killed on the Island of Mindanao.

In June 2018, Catholic priest Richmond Nilo was gunned down in a chapel in Zaragoza town in Nueva Ecija province, at the altar where he was preparing to celebrate mass.

Slaughter of Christians

Pakistan: The bloated bodies of two Christian sisters, who had long rebuffed the advances of their Muslim employers, were found in a sewer in January 2021. Earlier, on November 26, the sisters, Sajida (28) and Abida (26), who were both married and had children, were reported as missing. The two Muslim men for whom they worked had regularly pressured them to convert to Islam and marry them. Even though the young women “made it clear that they were Christian and married, the men threatened them and kept harassing the sisters.” Forty days after they were reported missing, on January 4, 2021, their decomposed bodies were discovered. Their Muslim supervisors, during their interrogation, “confessed that they had abducted the sisters,” said Sadija’s husband; “and after keeping them hostage for a few days for satisfying their lust, had slit their throats and thrown their bodies into the drain.” The widower described the families’ ordeal:

When police informed us that they had identified the two bodies as those of our loved ones, it seemed that our entire world had come crumbling down…. I still cannot fathom the site [sic] of seeing my wife’s decomposed body.

Discussing this case, Nasir Saeed, Director of the Centre for Legal Aid Assistance and Settlement in the UK, said,

The killing of Abida and Sajida in such a merciless way is not an isolated case, but the killing, rape and forced conversion of Christian girls have become an everyday matter and the government has denied this and therefore is doing nothing to stop the ongoing persecution of Christians. Unfortunately, such cases happen very often in the country, and nobody pays any attention – even the national media – as Christians are considered inferior and their lives worthless.

Nigeria: On Jan. 16, Muslim Fulani herdsmen opened fire on and killed Dr. Amos Arijesuyo, pastor of Christ Apostolic Church and a highly respected professor at the Federal University of Technology. “The university condemns in the strongest terms this senseless attack that has led to the untimely death of an erudite university administrator and counselor par excellence,” the university said in a statement. “Dr. Arijesuyo’s death is a big loss to FUTA, the academic community in Nigeria and beyond. It is a death that should not have happened in the first place…. Our prayers and thoughts are with the wife, children and family members of our departed colleague at this difficult period of unquantifiable grief.”

In the two weeks before this murder, Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed 26 more people and wounded three in Christian majority regions. A separate report appearing in mid-January revealed that “More Christians are murdered for their faith in Nigeria than in any other country.”

Finally, in a speech released in January, Abubakar Shekau, the leader of the Islamic terror group Boko Haram, made clear that, despite Western claims that his organization is motivated by secular interests, religion colors everything. According to the Jan. 28 report, Shekau called on the new Chief of Defense Staff, Lt. General Lucky Irabor, a Christian, to “repent and convert to Islam.” He also told the new Chief of Army staff, Major General Ibrahim Attahiru, that, by going against Boko Haram, his behavior is “un-Islamic” and “he is no longer regarded as a Muslim.”

Attacks on Apostates and Evangelists

Uganda: A Muslim man beat his 13-week-pregnant wife, causing her to miscarriage, after he learned that she had converted to Christianity. On Jan. 13, Mansitula Buliro, the 45-year-old woman in question and mother of seven, was preparing for Muslim evening prayers with her husband when she began to have Christian visions. On the following day she secretly visited a Christian neighbor, prayed with her, and put her faith in Christ. Right before she left, a Muslim man knocked on the Christian neighbor’s door and said, “Mansitula, I thought you were a Muslim—how come I heard prayers mentioning the name of Issa [Jesus]?” Then, when Mansitula returned home her husband informed her that he had been told that she had become Christian. “I kept quiet,” Mansitula later explained in an interview:

My husband started slapping and kicking me indiscriminately. I then fell down. He went inside the house and came back with a knife and started cutting my mouth, saying, ‘Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar [jihadist slogan “Allah is greater”], I am punishing you to not speak about Yeshua [Jesus] in my house. This is a Muslim home.’

Her screaming caused her two youngest children (six and eight) also to start screaming, prompting neighbors to rush and stop the attack. “There was blood all over from my mouth,” Mansitula said. “My in-laws arrived, and in their presence my husband pronounced divorce: ‘Today you are no longer my wife. I have divorced you. Leave my house, or I will kill you.’” A neighbor took her by motorcycle to a nearby hospital. “I was examined, and they found that my fetus had been affected, and after four days I had a miscarriage…. It is now very difficult to reunite with my family. I am now Christian, and I have decided for Issa’s cause.”

Separately, on Dec. 27, around 7 pm, eight Muslims ambushed and beat Pastor Moses Nabwana and his wife, a mother of eight, as they were walking home from a church function: “They began by beating my husband, hitting him with sticks and blunt objects on the head, the back, his belly and chest,” Naura, his wife, said. “I made a loud alarm, and one of the attackers hit me with blows and a stick that affected my chest, back and broke my hand.” Christian neighbors rushed to their cries, prompting the assailants to flee. Due to the severe injuries they sustained, the wife was hospitalized for five days and her husband, Pastor Moses, was hospitalized for several more days. The assault came after area Muslims learned that an imam had converted to Christianity and joined their church; mosque leaders incited the attack. On that same night, “area Muslims demolished the roof, windows, doors and other parts of the[ir] church building that has a capacity for 500 people, leaving a heap of broken debris… Chairs, benches, musical instruments, amplifiers and other items were destroyed.”

Then, around 4:30 am on Sunday, Jan. 24, while the pastor was still recovering at the hospital, three Muslims broke into their home, again beating his wife, Naura—who was still recovering from her first beating—as well as two of their eight children. “I heard loud noises and plates being broken,” Naura recalled. “The children and I woke up. The attackers had broken the door and entered in. One started strangling me, while another threw one of my daughters outside through the window and broke the skin on her leg.” The Muslims fled before inflicting more damage once they learned that her brother-in-law and his family were rushing over: “The assailants left behind a Somali sword,” she said, “which I think they possibly had planned to use to rape and then kill me.” Naura’s 10 year-old daughter suffered a deep cut on her knee, and her 12-year-old daughter suffered an eye injury. Atop all the injuries she suffered from her first beating, Naura’s neck was injured: “I am still in great pain, and the doctor has recommended that my uterus, which is seriously damaged, needs to be removed,” she said. “This will need a big amount of money.” According to a church leader who visited Naura and her family in their thatched-roof dwelling the day after the attack, “She is still in pain and needs basic assistance in the absence of the husband, the bread-winner.”

Iran: On Jan. 18, the Islamic Republic’s “morality police” arrested Fatemeh (Mary) Mohammadi, a 22-year-old convert to Christianity and human rights activist, on the accusation that “her trousers were too tight, her headscarf was not correctly adjusted, and [that] she should not be wearing an unbuttoned coat.” This is the third time officials arrest Mary. She did six months of prison time, after her first arrest, for being a member of a house church—which the regime recently labeled as “enemy groups” belonging to a “Zionist” cult; she also spent a brief time in jail after participating in a peaceful protest in April 2020. Officials have also pressured her employer, whom she always had a good relationship with, to prevent her from returning to work as a gymnastics instructor; and she was kicked out of her university on the eve of her exams. Reflecting on her travails, Mary wrote that:

Everything is affected… Your work, income, social status, identity, mental health, satisfaction with yourself, your life, your place in society, your independence…. And as a woman it’s even harder to remain patient and endure, in a society so opposed to women and femininity, though crying out for them both.

Attacks on Christian ‘Blasphemers’ in Pakistan

Pakistan: On Jan. 28, hospital employees slapped and beat a Christian nurse who had worked there for nine years, after a Muslim nurse told them that she had said “only Jesus is the true Savior and that Muhammad has no relevance.” A hospital member recorded and loaded a video of the attack on Tabeeta Nazir Gill, a 42-year-old Catholic gospel singer. It shows the woman surrounded by a throng of angry Muslims who slap her and demand she “confess your crime in writing.” “I swear to God I haven’t said anything against the prophet [Muhammad],” the Christian woman insists in the video. “They are trying to trap me in a fake charge.” “Fortunately, someone called the police, and they promptly arrived on the scene and saved her life,” Pastor Eric Sahotra later explained. After questioning the accused, police concluded, based also on the testimony of other co-workers, that “A Muslim colleague made the false accusation due to a personal grudge,” continued the pastor:

Other hospital employees were misled into believing the allegation, so they also attacked Tabeeta…. News of the incident spread quickly through the social media, raising fears of mob violence outside the hospital and other areas.

A Muslim mob later descended on and besieged the police station; this prompted police to register a First Information Report against Gill under Section 295-C of Pakistan’s blasphemy statues—which calls for the maximum death penalty for anyone who verbally insults Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. Last reported, the woman’s two young children were “in a state of shock since the time they saw the graphic video of their mother’s beating,” said the pastor. No legal action was taken against the Muslim nurse who fabricated the blasphemy accusation to instigate her coreligionists. The report adds that,

In Pakistan, false accusations of blasphemy are common and often motivated by personal vendettas or religious hatred. Accusations are highly inflammatory and have the potential to spark mob lynchings, vigilante murders and mass protests. Many of those accused of blasphemy never reach the courtroom; violence has killed 62 accused people since 1990, with few prosecutions.

Separately, hundreds of Muslims descended on the village of a 25-year-old Christian man, and threatened to behead him and torch his and adjoining homes, soon after it became known that he had shared a Facebook post critical of Muhammad. According to the Jan. 5 report, on first learning that Muslims were angry, Raja Warris apologized, pointing out that he had only shared the post “for academic understanding between Christians and Muslims and did not mean to offend any Muslims.” The matter seemed to be closed after that; but then, and in the words of Rev. Ayub Gujjar, vice moderator of the Raiwind Diocese of the Church of Pakistan,

[W]e were informed by our congregation members in Charar that a huge mob had gathered in the locality on the call of a cleric affiliated with the extremist religio-political outfit, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan [TLP], and were demanding the beheading of the catechist. Fearing violence, hundreds of Christian residents fled their homes while around 400 anti-riot policemen were deployed in the area to thwart violence.

Rev. Gujjar and other Christian leaders rushed to the police station, which was quickly surrounded by Muslims who “chanted slogans against Christians,” prompting police to insist that Warris be handed over. Police then registered a First Information Report under Section 295-A and Section 298-A of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which call for up to 10 years imprisonment for blasphemers, and then showed it to the mob leaders, at which point they called off the siege and dispersed. Discussing this incident, Bishop of Raiwind Diocese Azad Marshall said that “Warris is an educated youth who loves to serve God.” Even so,

Christians especially need to be more careful in sharing content, because any faith-based post could be used to instigate violence against the community… We need to understand that Islamic religious sentiments run high in our country, therefore it’s important to carefully analyze the content before posting it online.

General Hostility for Christians and Christianity

Pakistan: On Jan. 5, a Muslim man severely beat his Christian employee because he had taken leave to attend a Christmas Day prayer service. Even though Ansar Masih had compensated for the missed day of work by working on the following Sunday, his manager was abusive. “When I argued with him, he called four other staffers to teach me a lesson for going to church and arguing with him,” Masih later explained. “They abused Christians for their religious practices and said derogatory words when they came to know that I was busy praying at the church.” The Christian man sustained several injuries during the assault and was taken to a local hospital. According to the report, as often happens in such cases,

Police officials and the men that assaulted Masih are now putting pressure on his family to settle the matter out of court. Masih has submitted an application to police regarding the incident, but not action has been taken by officers against Masih’s assailants.

Austria: According to a Jan. 5 report, approximately 40 Muslim migrants rioted and burned down a Christmas tree in Favoriten. On coming to extinguish the large tree, the fire brigade heard one of the migrants yelling: “A Christmas tree has no place in a Muslim district,” even as the raging mob pelted the emergency service officials with projectiles to screams of “Allahu Akbar.”

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again and Sword and Scimitar, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Gatestone Institute, a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, and a Judith Rosen Friedman Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

About this Series

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic. Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month. It serves two purposes:

1) To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.

2) To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.

Watch video below as Ibrahim describes his monthly report.

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Maybe instead of telling people who is allowed to claim non whiteness or whatnot we should just be talking about the ways in which people of all races uphold white supremacy...

Like are white-mixed people less or more white than their non mixed counterparts?

- I don't care. What way do they engage with their racialized family and community? Do they uplift voices of people engaging with their racialized selves? Do they understand themselves as racialized?

Are "whitewashed" ethnic migrants more white than their recently landed counterparts?

- I don’t care. How does the legacy of assimilation hurt them? How do they place in relation to language rights, religious practice rights, and where do they place their economic class solidarity?

Are x ethnicity white?

- Does it matter? Irish people were not historically white. Kim Kardashian has Armenian roots. There are people who are fully Asian who have conceptually white phenotypes.

We should be talking about whiteness as constructed in relation to the non-white other, and everyone exists on a scale. If we conceptualize things as "white" and actively participate in things as "white," we've lost the game. I feel like we should be doing more work to dismantle and disrupt what whiteness means and encroach on that space, and also widen what it means to be acceptable in this society.

Speaking in standard dialects and accents is not white. They do not own language. Blue eyes are not white. They do not own genetics. Fashion is not white. Wealth is not white. Good fathers and loving homes are not white. Intelligence and compassion are not white. Whiteness is a concept, and if, in someone's conception, it is the aspirational mark for everything "good" that is racism.

People of color should be able to claim any and all things because whiteness is fragile and based on fear. It is based on the fact that there are people who have to justify the privileges given to them by a system that cannot otherwise justify it.

Like, obviously, stay in your lane or what have you. We don't need a Dolezal debacle. But rather than intra-community squabble about who of us are permitted to speak in spaces, we should be uplifting narratives on how whiteness has affected us. In the same way, we should not be afraid of calling out people of colour who continuously ally themselves with whiteness to the detriment of other people of colour. A cop of colour who is complicit in murder is fair game for indictment. A politician of colour who exists to espouse discriminatory law is fair game to be voted out. Celebrities of colour who spout colorist and stereotyped rhetoric is fair game for criticism.

It's not about who is white, its about how people's actions hurt people of colour.

#i mean there are so many people of colour i know #esp immigrant asians bc hey thays my community #who ally themselves with whiteness even if they are visibly nonwhite #theyre like oh wealth and art are white people things or really wanting a white spouse so their kids can be white #its all so disgusting #even with language like being good at english is such a status symbol and its so disheartening #like there are people who communicate fine but have an accent and they will fully diminish themselves over it #my saying youre lesser for being nonwhite is also upholding white supremacy

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Being Arab / 1

I had a friend of a friend visit, here in London. Both my friends are Italian, among a community of other friends who are mostly Italian. But this visiting friend in particular had an interesting story. It started to unfold when I understood that her grandparents were born and lived in Beirut, to a family of Jews who are originally from Aleppo. It struck me! “So, your grandparents, do they speak Italian or Arabic?” I asked her. “Both,” she replied, “but mainly French by virtue of education, and Arabic. Their Italian is not the best.” Wow, I thought to myself. Here I am again in front of an Italian of Arab origin, in fact syrio-lebanese, or you could say shami, for levantine, since we’re talking about exactly the time that this political distinction came to effect, resulting in the carving of a Lebanon, by the French mainly whose colonial mandate it was under, from Syria then, early 20th century.

In any case, we didn’t draw on any of this history, it was merely in the back of my head as I listened to our friend telling us about this captivating journey that her grandparents went through, having grown up in Beirut and educated in French schools, and how by the late 40s early 50s they had to leave. In my mind, that’s a sorry but familiar story that I’ve heard over and again about Arab Jews finding themselves at the temultuous front of nationalist quasi-post-colonial states and the forming of the formative Arab-Israeli conflict, and having to leave. I grew up on my own father’s stories about his jewish neighbors, and the jewish tradesmen with which his father traded, along of course with copts, as well as other diasporic (European origin) communities that lived in Cairo at the time like the Armenians, the Greeks and the Italians.

Our friend told us about how they first left to Tokyo, where they lived for a while and how the grandfather wrote from there for a Lebanese newspaper. Eventually, seeking to settle after the birth of our friend’s mother, taking advantage of a post-war European scheme to provide residency and citizenship for Jews, they ended up in Italy, which they knew nothing about. My friend, of course, feels assuredly Italian by virtue of this decision, whose timeliness would inform hers and her mother’s upbringing in Milan, this city her grandfather picked on the map and actually made the trip to.

The fact that her grandparents in Milan spoke Arabic and maintained a memory of their past-life in Beirut intrigued me. I asked my friend if she identifies with being Arab at all, she replied “no” straight away. She considered that she had middle eastern origins, because for example the typical food that her grandmother would make for her was kibba and hummus and those dishes, no pasta included. I told her yes those are typical Arabic dishes. She was puzzled and the discussion carried along with our friends. I didn’t manage to ask her how she thinks her grandparents identified themselves. Our discussion bordered into mentioning the Arab Israeli conflict, though without getting into it. I am not sure how my friend, who studied history and journalism in New York and here we are meeting in London, would have weighed on it. I had the sense that she identified with being Jewish, at least as it pertains to her search for stories of her family’s origins.

It was interesting and strange for me. Particularly as it comes in a time where I am personally reckoning with and rediscovering being an Arab, here in London, along with a growing Arab diaspora of friends and colleagues who are spread around cities in europe. In a time as well when an Arab-Muslim migrant crisis is overshadowing Europe, it’s relation both to itself and to the world, and when a cartoon and series of statements by Macron lead to widespread mutual-hate speech and daily lone-wolf terror-crimes are erupting across different cities in Europe. I as an Arab at this present moment bear this weight in my presence here, in people’s perplexed looks, insinuations and misunderstandings. The popular theory goes that as there is no fire without smoke, and as we might not believe in stereotypes, we nevertheless think that there are reasons behind them, and it is to those roots of the stereotype of the Arab male backward and violent jihadi that the perplexed eyes keep looking.

I never really identified as an Arab before. I identified more as an Egyptian who is reconciled with his Arab ethnicity, along with the African and Mediterranean affinities, although I am culturally oriented towards the west, for many reasons. Part of my childhood and all of my travels were in and to the west. Only last February I visited beirut for the first time, and, realizing that it was my first visit to an Arab state other than Egypt, I felt warmly home in it, digested its crises and social malaise. I understood in a novel way what and how it means to be Arab the minute I arrived to the airport and was confronted with the lax but authoritative security officer, I automatically understood how things here are done, even if they speak with a shami accent and seem to be lighter-skinned.

As recently, and I could almost argue that it was by way of peer-pressure, I am feeling in need to reckon as well with how the word Arab echoes, and what it resonates or connotes. And as I spent the past year here in london, half of which under lockdown, and as i suffered from social isolation, estrangement, and an almost medical need for sun, spontaneity, kindness and warmth, I slowly discovered how in fact Arabs are lovely people. They are generally kind and natural, saturated with a high level of corruption and cynicism and usually crushed under the heavy weight of decades-long national and collective crises, very attached to where they come from but also actively dreaming to leave it ‘behind’ to a better place since there’s almost no hope for things to change. Arabs also have a colorful shared cuisine, full of breads, cheeses, olives, vine leaves, hummus, felafel and beans much of which is shared with the southern Mediterranean and other regions. A significant stretch of the Arab geography, is the Fertile Crescent from Palestine-Israel as they border Egypt, tying Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. My visit to Beirut, and more precisely outside of Beirut in Lebanon, I admit, opened my eyes to this tasteful landscape of green hills that Gibran described, bordering arid desert from the back and overseeing a generous stretch of the Mediterranean Sea on the front, with a temperate weather saturated with sun, warmth, and a fertile soil rich with produce, and archaeological remains necessary for understanding how civilization transformed at a certain moment in time around the agricultural revolution, bringing forth writing and scripture, cities, prophets, and god.

This is what my imagination projects if I say that I’m an Arab. I’m not sure if that what my friend understood when I asked her if she identified with her Arab origins.

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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON —

LIFELONG ACHIEVEMENTS AS A POLITICIAN WORKING TIRELESSLY TO PROTECT ALL OF THOSE SHE SERVED

Foreign Policy:

Myanmar transition

Iran nuclear deal framework

Israel/Hamas peace agreement/ceasefire

Promoting LGBT rights in Africa as Secretary of State

HIV/AIDS testing and treatment through Clinton Foundation partnership with ANTIAIDS and the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Ukraine

Launched Global Hunger and Food Security program

Saved the Turkish-Armenian accord

Co-sponsored Afghan Women and Children Relief Act of 2001

Co-sponsored Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act of 2001

Co-sponsored Democratic Republic of the Congo Relief, Security, and Democracy Promotion Act of 2006

Co-sponsored Iraq Reconstruction Accountability Act of 2006

Co-sponsored Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006

Health:

Expanded the Family Medical Leave Act to include national guard/reservist

Co-sponsored Prevention First Act (family planning)

Changed State Department policy to include same sex couples in Diplomat benefits package

Lead group investigating 9/11-related illnesses in first responders (her Senate successor ended up passing her bill)

Co-founded Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families

Helped increase research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma for NIH

Helped investigate Gulf War Syndrome

Co-sponsored Traumatic Brain Injury Act of 2008

Co-sponsored ALS Registry Act

Co-sponsored Poison Center Support, Enhancement, and Awareness Act of 2008

Co-sponsored Veterans’ Mental Health and Other Care Improvements Act of 2008

Education:

Built Arkansas’ Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters

Reformed Arkansas’ education system as chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee

Co-sponsored Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Improvement Act of 2006

9/11:

Instrumental in bringing $21 billion in funding for the World Trade Center site’s redevelopment

Established family compensation/small business loan programs

Co-sponsored Procedural Fairness for September 11 Victims Act of 2007

Children/Women:

Helped create Office on Violence Against Women at the Department of Justice

Helped pass Adoption and Safe Families Act

Helped pass Foster Care Independence Act

Supported and promoted the passage and rollout of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), which expanded health insurance for children in lower-income families.

Co-sponsored Native American Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Technical Amendment Act of 2001

Co-sponsored Pediatric Research Equity Act of 2003

Co-sponsored PREEMIE Act

Co-sponsored Newborn Screening Saves Lives Act of 2007

This is considered by many to be one of the turning points of international women’s rights

In 1995, during an unprecedented address in Beijing to the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women, Hillary recounted worldwide abuses and declared “It is time for us to say here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.”

First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Remarks to the Fourth Women’s Conference in Beijing, China

Career:

Staff attorney for the Children’s Defense Fund in Cambridge

Board member of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action

Legal work at the Yale Child Study Center for child abuse

Volunteer at New Haven Legal Assistance Association

Director of the Arkansas Legal Aid Clinic

Chair of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession

Political Career:

Researcher on migrant worker problems — Subcommittee on Migrant Labor

Jimmy Carter’s Indiana director of field operations

Chaired Arkansas’ Rural Health Advisory Committee, working to expand medical facilities for the poor

Chair of the Arkansas Educational Standards Committee

Chair of Presidential Task Force on National Health Care Reform

First Lady of Arkansas

First Lady of the United States

United States Senator from New York

United States Secretary of State

Voting Rights

Wrote Count Every Vote Act of 2005

Co-sponsored re-introducing the Equal Rights Amendment

More legislation (that became law)

Co-sponsored Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009

Co-sponsored Methamphetamine Production Prevention Act of 2008

Co-sponsored PROTECT Our Children Act of 2008

Co-sponsored KIDS Act of 2008

Co-sponsored Broadband Data Improvement Act

Co-sponsored Appalachian Regional Development Act Amendments of 2008

Co-sponsored Healthy Start Reauthorization Act of 2007

Co-sponsored Hematological Cancer Research Investment and Education Act of 2002

Co-sponsored Persian Gulf War POW/MIA Accountability Act of 2002

Co-sponsored FHA Downpayment Simplification Act of 2002

Co-sponsored Strengthen AmeriCorps Program Act

Co-sponsored 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act

#hillary clinton #bill clinton #barack obama #bernie sanders #donald trump

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News on Countries of Asylum

AFRICA

High-level ministerial meeting on refugees in the Great Lakes region

Africa welcomes refugees but freedom and jobs are needed

Seventy percent of African migration occurs within the continent

Members states of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) resolve to work towards making it easier for refugees to work in their host countries

DJIBOUTI

Yemeni refugees choose baboon-infested tent city in Djibouti over Saudi camp

EGYPT

Sudan’s refugees in Egypt: The struggle to cope

ETHIOPIA

How Ethiopia is managing refugees and shoppers from Eritrea amid new peace

KENYA

Global restructuring at UNHCR to affect Kenya

Kenya orders closure of Dadaab camp this year, according to leaked UN document

MAURITANIA

UN says Mauritania urgently needs funds to deal with ongoing refugee crisis

REUNION

Sri Lankans risk it all to seek asylum on tiny island of Reunion

UGANDA

Key donors freeze Uganda refugee aid after UN mismanagement scandal

UNHCR calls for international support for Uganda, grappling with an influx of 1.2 million refugees from neighbouring countries

ZAMBIA

Zambia appeals for money to cater for refugees

AMERICAS

BRAZIL

Over 5,000 Venezuelans find new homes through Brazil’s internal relocation programme

CANADA

Québec’s Trump-like immigration policies contradict Canada’s welcoming image

COLOMBIA

Colombia border hospitals struggle with Venezuelan migrant influx

MEXICO

Mexico frets over US plans to take divisive asylum policy to new cities

Mexico tries new approach to asylum-seekers at the border

Life carries on at Mexico’s southern border, where there is permanent mobility

Ankle bracelets, court hearings, no work and homelessness amongst Mexican asylum seekers in the US

Parents separated from children and deported arrive back at US border

Trump administration to close offices for international asylum and refugee cases

ASIA

BANGLADESH

Inside the Bhashan Char plan for Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh says it will not accept any more Myanmar refugees

How the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh is changing

CHINA

China offers Rohingya refugees money if they return to Myanmar

INDIA

Supreme Court suggests refugee status for immigrants

INDONESIA

The growing despair of refugees stuck in Indonesia

MALAYSIA

More than 30 Rohingya women, children found stranded on beach in Perlis

AUSTRALIA

Refugee footballer becomes Australian citizen after Thai-Bahrain ordeal

The Government says Australians will lose out on medical help if refugees are brought here for treatment

Children of refugees on Manus Island eligible for transfer under medevac bill, but confusion reigns

Employing refugees in Australia is not as complicated as many think

Australia's citizenship backlog is taking a toll on the country's refugees

Manus Island refugee addresses UN over Australia's “cruel” asylum seeker policy

EUROPE

EU recalls ships helping in Mediterranean refugee rescues

Diminished “Operation Sophia” abandons refugees, migrants to Libyan Coast Guard

AUSTRIA

Austria proposes preventative detention for asylum seekers deemed a threat

CYPRUS

UNHCR highlights plight of asylum seekers in Cyprus

DENMARK

Denmark announces extension of refugee apprenticeship programme

GERMANY

Germany's east 10 times more unsafe for asylum-seekers

Number of attacks on migrants and refugees going down in Germany

GREECE

Council of Europe slams Greece over refugee camp conditions

Masked attackers target refugee event in northeastern Greece, one injured

ICELAND

Refugee protesters in Reykjavik disperse, cite failing health and xenophobia

IRELAND

Government calls for Irish communities to sponsor refugee families

ITALY

Bulldozers demolish Italian camp housing 1,500 refugees

Italian government says migrant arrivals down 94% in 2019

NETHERLANDS

The Netherlands tougher on migration after granting asylum to Armenian family

SPAIN

Venezuelans seeking asylum In Spain hope to return home one day

The young refugees trapped in Spain's African enclave

Venezuelans top list of asylum-seekers in Spain

Spanish Coast Guard planes struggling without search radars amid record migrant crossings

Nearly half of recent Spain migrant arrivals report exploitation and abuse

SWEDEN

Sweden to grant direct refugee status to Uighur Turks

SWITZERLAND

New asylum rules come into force in Switzerland

Asylum seekers in Glasgow “could be cleared to work in six months”

Parliamentarians call on Britain to double places for vulnerable refugees

MIDDLE EAST

ISRAEL

Israeli authorities find asylum seekers have a case, but won't act

Interior Minister refuses to grant Darfuri asylum seekers resident visas ahead of election

PAKISTAN

Imran Khan allows registered Afghan refugees to open bank accounts in Pakistan

TURKEY

Syrian refugees who fled to Turkey face backlash

Turkey gradually implements a policy of integration for Syrian refugees

#refugees #integratio #work #xenophobia

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For years in Myanmar, if Kyaw Hla Maung, a historian, were to roll up his sleeves and bare his arms he might have been arrested. His arms are tattooed with an unusual a script with vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines and clusters of dots, the ancient Brahmi language of the Rakhine or Arakanese people from Myanmar's Rakhine State.

"I had to wear shirts with long sleeves," he said. "Even if it was a hot day I still wore a long shirt so I wouldn't get caught."

The Rakhine people, one of the 135 officially recognised ethnic minority groups that live in Myanmar, were forbidden from speaking their language or studying their history from 1962 under a forced assimilation policy. However, since 2015 some schools have allowed the teaching of mother-tongue languages as a second language.

So, Kyaw Hla Maung chose not to record his teachings on paper but instead tattooed the consonants and vowels of one of the ancient Brahmi script on his skin.

Last year, Rakhine State made headlines around the world because of a military crackdown, which forced more than 600,000 Rohingya into neighbouring Bangladesh. The Rakhine consider the Rohingya outsiders from Bangladesh, and in some cases, have participated in the violence against them.

What is less known is that the Rakhine people also have a history of being oppressed - by the Burmese military, which enforced a rule of 'Burmanisation' or forcing the culture of the Burmese people on the country's various ethnic groups, many of whom have been at war with the central government since Myanmar's independence from the British.

Policy of 'Burmanisation'

Kyaw Hla Maung wants to revive the teaching of the state's history and study of the Rakhine language.

The 64-year-old believes that learning about the history of different ethnic and religious groups in the state is important to rebuilding peace, especially with the Rohingya.

Kyaw Hla Maung, 64, looks more like a rock star than a historian. Dressed in a navy fitted top and flared pants, he now works as a tour guide trainer in Mrauk U, the ancient seat of the Rakhine kingdom.

While the Rakhine language is now openly used and widely spoken, teachers usually volunteer to teach language classes after hours in schools. Government schools and colleges still only allow the Burmese language to be taught.

Under the military rule, a policy of "Burmanisation" resulted in the adoption of Burmese as the official language and schools across the country were forced to implement it. Ethnic language teaching was banned in public schools for four decades.

Kyaw Hla Maung said he was taught Rakhine language and history by his father, grandfather and local historian, Oo Tha Htun, whom he proudly calls his 'grand master'.

"I did my learning deep in the forest because if soldiers or police came, there was lots of problems for us," he said.

In the jungle, not far from the ruins of Mrauk U, they taught him how to read stone inscriptions telling the history of the different periods of Rakhine history - Dhanyawadi, Vesali, Le Mro and Mrauk U - as well as traditional songs such as "Buddha pujarniya", about previous reigning kings.

The lessons came to an abrupt halt when Oo Tha Htun was arrested in 1990 and later died in prison in Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine. Kyaw Hla Maung believes his teacher was arrested for a speech he made about Rakhine oppression under the Burmese government.

Brahmi script

After Oo Tha Htun's death, Kyaw Hla Maung, afraid of forgetting his grandfather's teachings, tattooed the Brahmi script on his arms.

The script is key to reading the stone inscriptions around the Mrauk U archaeological zone as it was used by the first of the four dynastic eras of Rakhine State, the Dhanyawadi dynasty, around the mid 4th-century.

The Mrauk U kingdom was known as the golden age of Rakhine. It was a thriving multi-ethnic and multi-faith court that ruled over Rakhine from the 14th to the 18th century. The capital, Mrauk U, was once an important trading hub frequented by Portuguese, Dutch, Armenian, Arab and Persian traders.

From across the sea, the influence of Bengal also resulted in a distinct Muslim influence in Buddhist architecture, and Mrauk U rulers minted coins in both Arabic and Arakanese.

The people of Rakhine enjoyed prosperity up until the late 18th century when the Mrauk U empire was annexed by the Burmese Konbaung Dynasty, and many Rakhine people were taken prisoner.

The British arrived in Burma in the 19th century, bringing with them tens of thousands of migrant labourers from Bengal to work in paddy fields, creating tension with the local population in the Rakhine state. Historians, however, say the Rohingya's history goes as far back as the eighth century.

Mrauk U has remained a relatively peaceful city compared with the rest of Rakhine State with majority Buddhists co-existing with people from other faiths and ethnicities.

Apart from the Rakhine and Rohingya, Mro, Chin, Dynet and Thet ethnic minorities have lived in Rakhine State for centuries.

In today's Myanmar, Rakhine State is one of the poorest regions in the country, riven by ethnic tensions and several conflicts, including one by the Arakan Army, a Rakhine armed group at war with the military for "self-determination of the multi-ethnic Arakanese population".

'Genocide'

Local Rakhine communities and politicians continue to be excluded from the planning and execution of large-scale investment projects such as the gargantuan oil and gas project at Kyawkpyuh. Arakan Watch, a campaign group, has objected, claiming that the profits are going to the central government rather than local communities.

Some in the Rohingya community, who are denied citizenship and barred from accessing healthcare and education, took up arms following years of persecution at the hands of the army.

Burmese security forces, in response to attacks by Rohingya fighters in August, have killed at least 6,700 Rohingya and set fire to entire villages. Doctors have also treated injuries consistent with violent attacks, recording several incidents of rape of Rohingya women and girls as they fled to Bangladesh.

Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the UN human rights chief, said the persecution of the Rohingya may amount to genocide.

Myanmar's government, led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, has so far ignored widespread international calls for an impartial and independent investigation.

Kyaw Hla Maung is sad to see his state mired in such a brutal conflict.

"I do accept the Rohingya as human beings who deserve to live peacefully in Myanmar because they have been living together with Myanmar nationalities peacefully for a long time," he said.

"I am sorry to see this [violence against the Rohingya]...this is the doing of the Burma security forces, who won't let peace return in Rakhine State," he said, noting the army continues to suppress Rakhine residents as well.

Most recently, on January 16, soldiers fired on a protest held in Mrauk U to mark the end of the Rakhine kingdom in 1784, killing seven demonstrators.

Kyaw Hla Maung believes that recent bloody attack is an assault on Rakhine culture and history. He says that the Rakhine ethnic people can't speak freely about their culture, history and issues that Rakhine people face.

"We need to rediscover our history," he said.

He has just finished drafting a book merging his family's oral traditions with studies of stone inscriptions. His hope is that he can at least start a conversation within his community about uncovering local history and acknowledging the plural interpretations that exist among different minority groups.

"It [local history] is not forgotten, it's not lost, but actually it is 'hidden,' because the government hides it."

#Southeast Asia #Burma #Myanmar #Rakhine People #History

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Jessa van der Vaart and Rosaliene Israel, two Dutch pastors, usually get to church by cycling through the streets of Amsterdam to a Protestant parish in the city center. But last Wednesday night, they packed their robes into the trunk of a car and drove down the highway to The Hague for what was the equivalent of a priestly shift change. They would take over at 8 p.m. from a local minister at the modest Bethel Church. Then, at 11 p.m., they would be replaced by a group from the city of Voorburg, who were scheduled to pull an all-nighter, singing hymns and preaching until daylight, when another cleric would arrive to take the baton. The two pastors from Amsterdam were running slightly late. “Well,” said Ms. van der Vaart, as Ms. Israel started the engine. “They’ll have to keep going till we get there.” For the marathon church service, which started more than six weeks ago, and hasn’t stopped since, can never take a break. Under an obscure Dutch law, the police may not disrupt a church service to make an arrest. And so for the past six weeks, immigration officials have been unable to enter Bethel Church to seize the five members of the Tamrazyan family, Armenian refugees who fled to the sanctuary to escape a deportation order. The service, which began in late October as a little-noticed, last-gasp measure by a small group of local ministers, is now a national movement, attracting clergy members and congregants from villages and cities across the Netherlands. More than 550 pastors from about 20 denominations have rotated through Bethel Church, a nonstop service all in the name of protecting one vulnerable family.

To Protect Migrants From Police, a Dutch Church Service Never Ends - The New York Times

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EU-funded conference on Increased Resilience of Syrian Armenians and Host Population held in Yerevan

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EU-funded conference on Increased Resilience of Syrian Armenians and Host Population held in Yerevan

Today the Increased Resilience of Syrian Armenians and Host Population – IRIS Programme Final Conference took place in Yerevan.

The project aimed to enhance the economic integration of Syrian-Armenians and the host population by raising the competitiveness of the local economy by stimulating innovation and entrepreneurial spirit in Armenia.

“I believe that this support from the EU Regional Trust Fund in response to the Syrian Crisis and joint efforts of the founding organizations helped to facilitate and strengthen the economic integration of Syrian Armenians, migrants, repatriates and local entrepreneurs, contributing to the growth of Armenian SME sector. I hope that this experience would be useful for replication within different similar projects in the future,” said the Head of the European Union Delegation to Armenia, Ambassador H.E Andrea Wiktorin in her welcoming speech.

The EU IRIS programme was implemented from July 2018 to July 2021 and was consisting of four main components: Economic integration, Housing Support, Information Services, Social Inclusion. The objective of the programme was to improve social and economic integration of Syrian Armenians and host population and to strengthen institutional capacities for economic growth in Armenia.

During 36 months Armenian Red Cross Society achieved the following:

270 families received housing rental subsidies

sustainable housing models were developed for low and medium income families,

100 Syrian and local Armenians participated in paid traineeships activities, from which 77 received job offers afterwards

200 older people received food and hygiene parcels on quarterly basis

Psycho-social Support (PSS) Centre of Armenian Red Cross Society established and provided personal PSS support to 361, and offered group-based integration activities to 735 Syrian Armenian children and adults, as well as to more than 40‘000 people affected by COVID-19 and escalation of Nagorno Karabakh conflict

631 teachers / partner organisations‘ & state body employees participated in Psychological First Aid trainings

9‘000 pupils and teachers were reached through educational activities

430 youth were empowered through capacity building and Seed Grant sub-projects.

Armenian Caritas and SME Cooperation Association established EU IRIS Business Incubator foundation as a separate entity which provides full cycle of business incubation including trainings, coaching, mentoring and access to the finance in form of grants and loans. As a result of two calls 102 entrepreneurs have been supported through IRIS Academy, and AMD 449’000’000 has been allocated for their businesses in form of grants and loans.

The Centre for Coordination of Syrian Armenians’ Issues with its InfoHub made sure that all services available and provided by different organizations were bundled and shared with all Syrian Armenians.

The IRIS programme is funded by the European Union through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis (the ‘MADAD’ Fund), Austrian Development Cooperation and Austrian Red Cross and is being implemented by the consortium led by Austrian Red Cross and consisting of “Armenian Caritas” Benevolent NGO, Armenian Red Cross Society, Centre for Coordination of Syrian Armenians’ Issues and SME Cooperation Association.

Read original article here.

#Armenia #Armenians #Covid-19 #Karabakh #Yerevan #Society

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2020

Week 40: September 28-October 4

28: The global COVID death toll creeps past one million. In Quebec, hospital, a 37-year old Indigenous woman named Joyce Echaquan dies. Videos filmed on Facebook live record medical staff mocking Echaquan, calling her stupid and saying she’s only good for sex. The 2019 Viens commission identified a culture of anti-Indigenous racism in the Quebec healthcare system and the Joliette hospital where Echaquan was being treated has an especially turbulent history with local First Nations communities.

29: It’s debate night - and one of Donald Trump’s first appearances since his tax returns were leaked by the New York Times on Sunday. These reports found that Trump did not pay federal taxes in ten of the past 15 years - and paid just $750 for two of the remaining five. Trump has engaged in tax avoidance at an almost staggering level, often by claiming enormous business losses at his golf courses, hotels, resorts and other businesses. The Trump Organization also claimed deductibles for large consulting fees paid by the company to Trump family members ... who were already on their staff. The returns reveal that Trump has guaranteed $421m in debt - most of which will mature in the next four years.

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The debates are an unmitigated and unrelenting mess. Trump interrupted his Biden, democratic rival, and Chris Wallace, the debate moderator, a stagger 128 times. An exasperated Biden remarks, at one point, “Will you just shut up, man?” When asked if he would renounce the white supremacist “Proud Boys” group, Trump instead tells them to “Stand back and stand bye” - which obviously falls far short of rebuke. The group takes it as an endorsement from the President. During a segment on the military, as Biden pointed at recent reports that Trump has mocked American war dead, Trump went on the attack, ridiculing Biden’s son Hunter for his substance abuse issues. When the debate concludes, a bewildered Jake Tapper emerges on the screen, describing the night as “a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck”.

30: Allegations have emerged that Mexican women have been sterilized against their will or with uninformed consent in migrant detention centres. At least 18 women have been coerced or forced to have hysterectomies in a privately-run detention facility in Georgia. Mexico sends messages through diplomatic channels, asking the United States to ‘clarify’ the situation.

Dawn Wooten, far left, was a nurse at the Ocilla detention centre where many of the immigrant women given hysterectomies were housed. She became a whistleblower. She also alleges the facility refuses to test for COVID-19 and is underreporting cases of the virus - Jeff Amy/Associated Press

1: Donald Trump announces his close aide, Hope Hicks, has tested positive for coronavirus. He and his wife, Melania, will be self-isolating as they await test results. Given the White House’s access to rapid testing - which takes mere minutes - it becomes apparent quite quickly that the President has likely contracted the illness, but the news won’t be confirmed until tomorrow. It makes the Trump family’s decision not to wear masks at the week’s debates especially egregious. Wallace, the debate moderator, tells the press that the Trump family arrived too late to be tested at the event - and therefore were allowed in using an “honour” system, with organizers trusting that the family tested recently tested negative.

2: The White House confirms that Trump has tested positive - he is flown to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for observation and treatment. Melania is also making headlines. Her former aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff leaks calls from the First Lady in which she complains about media attention on separated children at the border and whines about her duties decorating the White House for the holidays. “Who gives a fuck about Christmas stuff?” Amy Coney Barrett, too, is in hot water as details emerge that the Supreme Court Nominee signed an ad in 2006 condemning abortion “on demand”. The Republican party has tried to soften Judge Barrett’s reputation on abortion and pro-life issues following her nomination to the court over the weekend, claiming her stance is unknown or unclear. It’s not.

3: Near the newly-reopened Djoser pyramid, Egypt showcases nearly 100 ancient sarcophagi newly discovered during excavations of the Saqqara necropolis. These coffins contain the bodies of mummified priests and clerks who lived over 2,500 years ago.

As somebody who has worked in the industry, mummies are a weird concept for a museum object. As many museums in Europe, Oceania and North America work towards repatriating Indigenous remains out of their archaeology collections, many museums are actively still actively accepting Egyptian mummies. But, at the same time, these mummies command a substantial commercial retail value on the artefact market, putting these graves at risk for being disturbed and robbed. I have no firm opinions on this matter - I just find it interesting.

4: In Artsakh, shelling by Azeri forces continues as the Azerbaijan army captures major settlements and cities in the Armenian separatist province. There are heavy Armenian casualties, especially in the regional capital of Stepanakert. Azerbaijan’s president criticizes international mediators’ calls for a ceasefire, demanding the complete withdrawal of Armenian forces from the disputed region. A large pile-up in China kills 18 passengers and flooding in France has left many missing, feared dead. Outside Walter Reed, Trump orders his security detail to drive around the facility so he could ride past supporters gathered outside to cheer him on. His detail wear respirators, face shields, and full medical gowns. The White House physician, Dr. Conley, admits that he’d neglected details about the president’s health in previous days’ briefings. Trump’s blood oxygen content had dropped to precariously low levels. Dr. Conley said he reflecting the President’s “upbeat attitude”.

#2020 recap

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Sunday, December 6, 2020

Biden officially secures enough electors to become president (AP) California certified its presidential election Friday and appointed 55 electors pledged to vote for Democrat Joe Biden, officially handing him the Electoral College majority needed to win the White House. Secretary of State Alex Padilla’s formal approval of Biden’s win in the state brought his tally of pledged electors so far to 279, according to a tally by The Associated Press. That’s just over the 270 threshold for victory. Although it’s been apparent for weeks that Biden won the presidential election, his accrual of more than 270 electors is the first step toward the White House, said Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University. “It is a legal milestone and the first milestone that has that status,” Foley said. “Everything prior to that was premised on what we call projections.” The electors named Friday will meet Dec. 14, along with counterparts in each state, to formally vote for the next president. Most states have laws binding their electors to the winner of the popular vote in their state, measures that were upheld by a Supreme Court decision this year. There have been no suggestions that any of Biden’s pledged electors would contemplate not voting for him.

Further Slowdown in Job Creation Sets Off Economic Alarms (NYT) The American job engine has slowed significantly, stranding millions who have yet to find work after being idled by the pandemic, and offering fresh evidence that the recovery is faltering. The Labor Department reported Friday that employers added 245,000 jobs in November, fewer than half the number created in October. The pace of hiring has now diminished for five straight months. While many of those knocked out of a job early in the pandemic have been rehired, there are roughly 10 million fewer jobs than there were in February. Many of the unemployed are weeks away from losing benefits that have sustained them, with emergency assistance approved by Congress last spring set to expire at the end of the year. The latest sign of economic headwinds arrived as members of Congress struggled to reach agreement on a new aid package. A bipartisan group of legislators has put forward a $900 billion proposal, and the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, said the disappointing jobs report should add momentum to negotiations.

Southern California, San Joaquin Valley under restrictions (AP) Faced with a dire shortage of hospital beds, health officials announced Saturday the vast region of Southern California and a large swath of the Central Valley will be placed under a sweeping new lockdown in an urgent attempt to slow the rapid rise of coronavirus cases. he new measures will take effect Sunday evening and remain in place for at least three weeks, meaning the lockdown will cover the Christmas holiday. Much of the state is on the brink of the same restrictions. Some counties have opted to impose them even before the mandate kicks in, including five San Francisco Bay Area counties where the measures also take effect starting Sunday. With a new lockdown looming, many rushed out to supermarkets Saturday and lined up outside salons to squeeze in a haircut before the orders kicked in. The measures bar all on-site restaurant dining and close hair and nail salons, movie theaters and many other businesses, as well as museums and playgrounds. It says people may not congregate with anyone outside their household and must always wear masks when they go outside.

Honduras president seeks assistance, warns of increased migration in wake of devastating hurricanes (Washington Post) Weeks after Hurricanes Eta and Iota struck Central America in quick succession, nearly 100,000 Hondurans are living in shelters, many of which have become coronavirus hotspots. The country’s economy has been paralyzed. It is an unprecedented crisis, Honduran President, Juan Orlando Hernández said in an interview with The Washington Post on Friday. Hernández warned that in the absence of a coordinated international response, migration from Honduras to the United States could surge. “Imagine someone who lost everything, his house, his source of income, who feels hopeless and believes that there’s nothing left for him,” Hernández said. “And then he has a relative (in the United States) who says: ‘Come here.’ “ On Friday, Honduras filed a request with the Trump administration for temporary protected status (TPS) for Honduran citizens who are already in the United States. Guatemala, which was also affected by the two hurricanes, filed its own request last month. The Trump administration has tried to end existing TPS programs, which protect migrants from deportation while their countries manage crises.

The coronavirus has come roaring back into Brazil (Washington Post) RIO DE JANEIRO—For weeks, it has seemed that the pandemic was on the way out. The beaches, bars and restaurants had filled. The message: Rio de Janeiro was back. Now the city—and much of Brazil—is grappling with the sudden realization that the coronavirus has suddenly roared back. In Rio de Janeiro, where the virus has already killed tens of thousands, upturned the economy and sent rates of homelessness soaring, moments that recall the darkest days of the pandemic are once more appearing in the news. Sick people, unable to get help in the medical system, are again being found dead at home. Lines stretching into the hundreds are forming for intensive care beds. Hospital officials are warning of supply shortages and an imminent collapse in medical services. Even the vaunted private heath-care system reached 98 percent capacity in its intensive care units this past week, officials said. In states across the country, the situation wasn’t much better. Public health officials are increasingly worried.

Black Man Is Beaten on Camera, Thrusting French Police Into Spotlight (NYT) Without the video, Michel Zecler believes his case would have been reduced, at most, to a brief news item. Maybe something like this: “A young man, Black, wearing a sweatshirt and a hood, a shoulder bag, assaulted police officers, attempted to seize their weapons,” Mr. Zecler said in an interview on Thursday. “If I didn’t have my cameras, I’d be in prison today,” he added, referring to the security cameras in the vestibule of the building where he keeps his music studio. The footage from those cameras, showing police officers gratuitously beating Mr. Zecler, 41, a producer well known in the world of French rap, has instead helped fuel a political crisis in France and once again turned a spotlight on the issue of police brutality, especially against the country’s minority citizens. Mr. Zecler became the focus of a national uproar that has forced President Emmanuel Macron’s government to scrap and rewrite part of a security bill that would have restricted the filming of police. Critics say a provision in the security bill was aimed at snuffing out precisely the kinds of cellphone videos of the police roughing up demonstrators that have brought them under intense new scrutiny.

Swiss slopes buzz as those of neighbors sit idle in pandemic (AP) Two weeks after beating COVID-19, Thierry Salamin huffs as his ski boots crunch through Swiss snow near the Matterhorn peak, readying for a downhill run with his mood as bright as his blue and fluorescent yellow ski getup and the sun overhead. The 31-year-old real estate agent from the southwestern Swiss region of Wallis can’t believe he is skiing during a pandemic, let alone one that he personally endured—and which has driven a wedge between his country and its Alpine neighbors over where people can ski, and where they can’t. While the coronavirus resurgence has led Austria, France, and Italy to shut or severely restrict access to their ski stations this holiday season, Switzerland has kept its slopes open—a move that has fanned grumbling about an unlevel playing field when it comes to Alpine fun. The Swiss say they’re taking reasonable action to fight the coronavirus. Authorities require masks in ski lifts and queues, and recommend hand hygiene and physical distancing measures.

Diplomacy was the real loser (Christian Science Monitor) This autumn’s intense six-week war between Armenia and Azerbaijan offers a stark lesson in the costs of diplomatic failure: An unresolved territorial dispute suddenly erupted in violence that took thousands of lives and left a vastly changed landscape in its wake. Azerbaijan won the war with arms and advice from Turkey, dramatically reversing Armenia’s decisive victory a quarter century ago that had been frozen in place since 1994. The nub of the conflict is the Armenian-populated exclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, a Soviet-era autonomous region inside Azerbaijan that declared independence in 1988 as the USSR began to crumble. In the long and bloody war that ensued, Armenian forces not only secured the region, they occupied a huge swath of additional territory and expelled around 800,000 ethnic Azeris from it. The new armistice, which Russia imposed last month, restores all of those illegally seized lands to Azerbaijan and inserts 2,000 Russian peacekeeping troops into the area to enforce the deal. This dramatic outcome has triggered mass jubilation in Azerbaijan, plunged Armenia into a storm of national anguish, and left international diplomacy licking its wounds. The cease-fire lines brokered by Moscow almost exactly follow the diplomatic settlement that the international community had advocated for almost 30 years, but they were achieved by force of arms. The Minsk Group, comprising the United States, France, and Russia, which had been charged with resolving the conflict, proved irrelevant as the crisis climaxed; it was two regional powers, Russia and Turkey, that brought the warring parties to heel.

Trump restricts U.S. visas for Chinese Communist Party members and families (Washington Post) The State Department imposed tighter visa regulations for Chinese Communist Party members Thursday in a move that puts limits on U.S. travel for tens of millions of Chinese working in government and other prominent roles—and further stokes tensions with Beijing ahead of the Biden administration. The new rules would affect members of China’s ruling party, who number around 92 million, and their close relatives. The impact could be sweeping in a country where party members dominate the upper echelons not only in government but also in business, media, academia and other areas. The restrictions would limit visas for party members and their relatives to a single entry, with the visa duration lasting one month. Previously, Chinese nationals were eligible to apply for tourism or business visas, for instance, that are valid for 10 years and for unlimited entries. The new rules for party members could be disruptive for trade, academic and cultural exchanges between the two countries and the personal lives of the elite. Communist Party membership is not explicitly required but is often a de facto requisite for career advancement to top positions in China from the government to most major industries and academia. Many rank-and-file corporate employees and low-level civil servants are also dues-paying members.

Trump orders most American troops to leave Somalia (AP) The Pentagon said Friday it is pulling most U.S. troops out of Somalia on President Donald Trump’s orders, continuing a post-election push by Trump to shrink U.S. involvement in counterterrorism missions abroad. Without providing details, the Pentagon said in a short statement that “a majority” of U.S. troops and assets in Somalia will be withdrawn in early 2021. There are currently about 700 troops in that Horn of Africa nation, training and advising local forces in an extended fight against the extremist group al-Shabab, an affiliate of al-Qaida. Trump recently ordered troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he was expected to withdraw some or all troops from Somalia. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had said on Wednesday that the future structure of the U.S. military presence in Somalia was still in debate.

Ethiopia’s war in Tigray shows no signs of abating, despite government’s victory claims (Washington Post) Clashes continued across Ethiopia’s Tigray region and humanitarian aid remained paused at its border Friday, despite government claims that military operations had ceased and pledges to allow U.N. agencies access to hundreds of thousands of people who rely on them for food. Diplomats, aid workers and analysts said in interviews that the war in Tigray, Ethiopia’s northernmost region, was far from over even with government troops in effective control of the region’s main city, Mekele. The fighting has shifted to Tigray’s many craggy mountain ranges—difficult terrain where TPLF leaders and militia hold the advantage of familiarity and have been able to regroup. The TPLF’s leadership remains largely intact despite abandoning Mekele last week. On Thursday, in a message aired on a regional television network, one prominent leader called on supporters to “rise and deploy to battle in tens of thousands.”

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Armenia’s Unemployment: Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst

During the state of emergency in Armenia, 12 thousand people lost their jobs. In the worst-case scenario, by the end of this year this figure may increase to 40 thousand people.

The government should admit that current anti-crisis measures are like a drop in the ocean. They can only solve (but not prevent) some of the consequences of the socio-economic crisis.

How did it happen that the republic’s leadership showed much more inspiration and excitement in struggle for power than in solution of real problems? Obviously, the reason is a high level of satisfaction with their own situation and a hedonistic desire to enjoy life. Nevertheless, the coronacrisis amends the personal plans of the prime minister, his team and other powerful people.

On June 22, Nikola Pashinyan, anticipating the growth of public discontent, states: “But our main plan is to try to create jobs for our citizens in Armenia so that they will have a chance to work here, rather than outside Armenia”.

The key word is TRY. That’s why Armenian citizens do not trust and seek to leave the country. However, potential migrants should consider the high unemployment rate in Europe (especially in Germany) and the United States. Furthermore, when US President Donald Trump signed a decree on the suspension of the issuance of certain categories of work visas and the extension of restrictions on green cards. For many citizens of Armenia it became clear that they should not count on finding a better life in the States. Along with this, the news about the sudden termination by the Armenian Embassy in the Russian Federation of registration of citizens for returning from Russia makes people wonder whether it is appropriate to leave their homeland for those who plan to return. This is especially true for those who leave their families for temporary work. “In the situation caused by the pandemic, unfortunately, it is not considered expedient to ensure the return of all comers by charter flights,” the embassy said. That’s why repatriates do not return.

Of course, if you don’t start with yourself it’s very easy to find those who are responsible for all troubles. The possible change in power is also not a solution. It certainly won’t save Armenians from unemployment. Unless you consider the reward that some people have the opportunity to receive for the promotion of others to power. So far, we should observe the implementation by the country's leadership of the promised 100 programs in the field of capital construction. Also monitor how the government will be busy for two months compiling the indicators and finding out how many people have saved their jobs, but left without a salary for the pandemic period.

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What is living in Cyprus like?

The final entry permit (visa) is placed in a tourist's passport at the airport upon arrival to Cyprus. Pro-visa is issued for a single entry with the right to stay up to 90 days. Duration of stay may not exceed 90 days during any 180-day period.

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Furthermore Visa owners are not permitted to live permanently or operate in Schengen Location participants as they are only able to take a trip in the Area as momentary site visitors. Blevins Franks has actually been giving specialist financial advice to British expatriates throughout Europe for over forty years.

What is the minimum salary in Cyprus?

In 2018, the national minimum wage in Cyprus remained fixed at 870 € per month, that is 10,440 euros per year, taking into account 12 payments per year. Accordingly the national minimum wage has remained stable, while the CPI of 2017 which was, so workers have lost purchasing power in the last year.

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If you intend to remain in Cyprus for even more than 3 months, you should sign up as a Cypriot homeowner. You will certainly obtain an enrollment certificate from the Ministry of the Inside, Civil Registry and also Migration Division.

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Temperatures are much cooler however still cozy sufficient to go out in a Tee shirts and shorts throughout the day but nights require a jumper or jacket. Swimming is still possible during this duration with the extra advantage of uncrowded quieter coastlines. Stamp obligation rates are imposed at dynamic prices, depending upon the purchase rate of the property. A lowered BARREL price of 5% may use on the acquisition and/or building of residences of novice purchasers, with area much less than 250 sq . https://www.blackplanet.com/cerealneon0/message/21378560 minimized rate may also apply on the purchase and/or building of residences for use as the key and irreversible residence for the following ten years.

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How much does a student earn in Cyprus?

Cyprus provides certain benefits to international students, which other European countries usually don't give that much. Cyprus has a high visa success rate and the study gap is acceptable. The processing requirements are very basic, hence it's easier to apply.

There are still compelling reasons to transfer to Cyprus, besides the climate. The costs of lodging, interactions, education and learning and health care are all rather low and also, generally, of top quality. On the various other hand, the costs of consumables such as magazines and also groceries are fairly high, while clothing are generally subject to import tax obligations, driving up their costs.

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Is Cyprus good for students?

The people of Cyprus are nice and warm The people of Cyprus are known to be very friendly and accommodating to foreign nationals living on the island. Cypriots are very loyal and have a love for food, traditions and their cultural heritage. From my experience, Cypriots are well educated and often speak fluent English.

If you continue to be UK domiciled, as many carry out in spite of living abroad for many years, you remain responsible for UK inheritance tax. Possessions in the UK are constantly liable (if above the limit) despite domicile. Look for expert advice on just how to alleviate this tax obligation or prevent for your household. In Cyprus, resources gains tax is only payable on gains occurring on the sale of property situated in Cyprus; property in the UK or elsewhere is exempt. Typically, you will be thought about Cyprus-domiciled if you were born here or you have been resident for 17 out of the last two decades.

Cyprus efficiently ended its three-year financial aid programme at the end of March 2016, having actually borrowed a total amount of EUR6.3 billion from the European Stability Device and EUR1 billion from the IMF.

The remaining EUR2.7 billion of the ESM bailout was never given, because of the Cypriot government's much better than expected funds over the course of the program.

An applicant whose application for citizenship in any other member-state of the European Union had been declined is not eligible to get the purchase of the Cypriot citizenship by Financial investment Program.

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How much is the minimum salary in Cyprus?

Affordable living costs and good weather are just some of the reasons that make Cyprus a good place to retire. It is also a very safe country where English is widely spoken.

Our expertise covers tax, estate preparation, pensions and also investment management to provide a truly holistic approach to economic planning. Expatriates are now based on the exact same 'compelled heirship' policies as various other Cypriots. This indicates that the mass of your estate will be split amongst straight family members as well as can not be left feely to whomever you like. Unfortunately, this does not imply that British migrants escape death taxes entirely.

Is there job opportunity in Cyprus?

Cyprus has an excellent reputation for being a safe and friendly place. You can help us keep it that way. A few basic precautions can be enough to protect your belongings. Crime against students and tourists is not common, but you should keep passports, money and other valuables in a safe place.

It is worth keeping in mind that the Cypriot authorities have started tightening up the Golden Visa for citizenship vetting procedures. Because of this the variety of tickets given to well-off foreigners has actually been topped at 700 a year. The action came complying with cases the Cypriot passport is essentially up for sale.

Residence documents issued within this new procedure will include a declaration that the paper has actually been provided in accordance with the Withdrawal Agreement. Better to the UK's withdrawal from the EU on 31/1/2020, the Withdrawal Contract has a provision for a transitional duration, which will certainly be applied from 1/2/2020 until 31/12/2020. Throughout the transitional period, current EU Law on Free motion will continue to apply as well as the residence legal rights of UK nationals and also their member of the family will certainly remain to undergo the exact same problems as those under the EU Law on totally free motion. UK nationals covered by the Withdrawal Agreement will can take up employment or to carry out economic activity as a self-employed person. Under the Withdrawal Agreement, UK nationals that are qualified for home legal rights as well as their member of the family, including relative that are 3rd country nationals, can continue to live, work or examine in Cyprus.

The majority of Cypriots earn their college at Greek, British, or American universities, while there are also big emigrant areas in the UK and also Australia. Private colleges as well as state-supported universities have actually been created by both the Greek and also turkish areas. Based upon these demographics information, it is estimated that 113,687 Northern Cyprus residents, or 44% of the populace, are not Turkish Cypriots effectively talking, but are in reality "Turkish immigrants" or "Turkish settlers" from Anatolia. Prior to the conflict started in 1964 individuals of Cyprus (after that 78% Greeks, 17% Turks, 5% various other communities, consisting of Armenians as well as Maronites) were distributed over the whole island.

The firm positions a task advertisement with their registration number in the data source of the Ministry of Work and also Cyprus papers. Any type of firm with the enrollment of a third-country race need to provide evidence of work as well as state the placement of employees that are not Greek or EU person's. EU people can stay without registration in Cyprus for 3 months, after which they should complete the enrollment process. Enrollment of work is just feasible if there is an employment contract. The data in subsections Age framework via Divorce rate are for the area controlled by the Republic of Cyprus government only.

29 May 2020 Visas as well as residency area upgraded to consist of information concerning exactly how to access the UK National Support Fund for those who may locate it more challenging to finish their residency applications. You can call the European emergency number on 112, or Cyprus likewise has 199. Existing double taxation plans for UK nationals residing in Cyprus have actually not changed. You need to not make use of a European Wellness Insurance Coverage Card (EHIC) from the UK to access healthcare in Cyprus if you are resident in Cyprus. If you are residing in Cyprus or relocate there completely before 31 December 2020, you'll have life-long healthcare civil liberties in Cyprus as you do now, given you remain legitimately resident.

There are a lot of advantages, but you may not become aware that tax can be one of the advantages of residing in Cyprus. If the registration as well as movement solution of the Republic of Cyprus is not persuaded regarding the reason of the existence of a larger number, the optimum number is 5 people.

Authorities info for UK nationals moving to and also living in Cyprus, including support on residency, health care, driving and the Withdrawal Arrangement. You must conceder obtaining a Schengen Visa if for any kind of reason you desire to check out certain EU nations and/or if you are doing Business in EU. Upon the issuance of the Schengen Visa the Visa owner has the right to go into a nation- participant in Schengen Area and also travel freely throughout the Location for an optimum stay of approximately 90 days in a 180 day duration.

The quotes are for 2007 from the Republic of Cyprus Statistical Abstract 2007 (pp. 63-- 88) unless indicated or else. Cyprus has a strong system of main and additional education and learning.

If you don't like the scorching heat of the summer season then November, December is a blast to see Cyprus. Even January as well as February usually produce day time - in the shade - temperatures of Celsius, when northern Europe goes to 5 Celsius and below. The island is 90% cloudless throughout autumn/winter meaning you obtain those bright warm feel excellent days without frying in the sunlight.

The majority of UK expatriates therefore leave tax obligation on passion as well as rewards for their first 17 years of house. Particular income, such as bank interest and also rewards, is taxable in the form of 'support payments'. Rental earnings goes through both income tax obligation and defence contributions.

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