Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.
@weatherwar
Painted panels of a triptych
19th century
Ethiopia
-British Museum
#randomxt
Strange paragraphs to write:
"In JRL Syr. 10, in the left margin of fol. 304r, aligned to the top of the column, there is a transfer-sticker representing an anthropomorphic green frog dressed as a medieval soldier with breastplate, sword, and chainmail head protection, topped by a feathered hat. 1/
The second volume of Narsai: The Homilies is now out. Congratulations to Adam Becker! More volumes are being edited. Excited to see this series get some traction!
Thanks to Peeters Publishers for the beautiful production: www.peeters-leuven.be/detail.php?s...
Inside the Basilica of Our Lady of Africa in Algiers where Pope Leo XIV will pray with Algeria’s small Catholic community.
The basilica contains relics of both Saint Augustine and Saint Monica.
Courtney Mares OSV News
Only a few more days left for the early bird discount!
Tot de vele gremia in Israël die een nationalistische agenda voeren behoort ook een flink deel van de archeologen. Hun opgravingen in het ‘beloofde land’ zijn koren op de molen van joodse kolonisten en Amerikaanse christenen.
👉 www.groene.nl/artikel/alle...
everybody talking about Avignon but I am hoping for Canossa. Would be exactly 950 years after :)
Before I became an American, I was Lebanese. Parts of my family live in Lebanon.
Anyway, you don't need those bona fides to feel this way, but what is happening in Lebanon right now is a complete outrage. The people there, who mostly are just trying to carve out a living, don't deserve this.
US and Israeli forces “completely destroyed” a Tehran synagogue during Pesach. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...
We are horrified. Over Easter weekend, about 71 people likely drowned in the Mediterranean. Yesterday, our aircraft Seabird 2 spotted an overturned wooden boat: ~15 people clinging desperately to the hull, others in the water, and some lifeless bodies.
"Father Pierre and ten other men rushed to the house to help when another shell hit, wounding Rahi and four others. They were rushed to a local hospital, but Rahi did not survive and died before reaching the hospital door."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...
~ נשתנה הלילה הזה מכל הלילות
"The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and the Custody of the Holy Land hereby confirm that the matters concerning the Holy Week and Easter celebrations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre have been addressed and resolved in coordination with the relevant authorities."
Photos from Christian Palm Sunday celebrations in Daraa, southern Syria.
Logo of the Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale's 71st conference, to be held in Baghdad on 29 March - 2 April 2026. It shows a detail of an Assyrian statue of a lamassu or winged bull in the background: the right half of its human face with curly beard and pointed bulls' ears. In cuneiform on the left are the symbols ki-en-gi ki-uri5, the signs for "Sumer and Akkad", the ancient name for the lands between the Tigris and Euphrates river.
It should have been the first day of a wonderful conference in Baghdad today - the first time ever that the International Association of Assyriology assembled in Iraq for its annual meeting.
This conference was to be the culmination of 4 years of hard work by Iraqi and international colleagues. 1/4
btw I have a student who wants to build documentation and resources for cypriot arabic, she's very determined and has already started unearthing a lot of stuff but if anyone here has contacts in the remaining community or is interested in collaborating, please drop me a dm 🐦🐦
Israeli police blocked Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa and Custos Francesco Ielpo from entering the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem for Palm Sunday Mass, forcing them to turn back.
The Latin Patriarchate called it a serious violation of religious freedom during Holy Week.
“for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
This incident is a grave precedent,and disregard the sensibilities of billions of people around the world who, during this week, look to Jerusalem.”
De Israëlische politie heeft kardinaal Pizzaballa en een medewerker verboden de mis van Palmzondag te vieren in de Heilig Grafkerk in Jeruzalem. Een ongehoorde precedent, aldus de kardinaal. Het is tekenend voor de verslechterde verhoudingen tussen Israël en de RK-Kerk
Ik weet opeens een mooie naam voor de afdeling levensbeschouwing en religie voor PRO, waarin de Linker Wang en de Banning Vereniging zullen opgaan: PROfeet. www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/de-...
Candace is *the* authority on this topic- a must read
Ik hoor net dat er nog wat ruimte is om aan te schuiven bij het symposium morgen over erfgoed in/van de orthodoxe kerken in Nederland, in Museum Catherijneconvent - welkom dus! www.oosterschristendom.nl/nederland/sy...
The Russian Orthodox Church is slowly but surely gaining a foothold in Africa. Experts say Russia is using its expansion as a form of ideological soft power.
Job alert: wij zoeken een gedreven onderzoeker met passie voor Joodse geschiedenis en erfgoed voor een PhD-project naar de omgang met #Joods erfgoed in Nederland sinds 1945, binnen het NWA-project Traumascapes: werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/pr.... Spread the word! 🕍📢
Walid Khalidi reshaped how the history of Palestine is written - www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/walid-khalidi-re...
“The aggressions against Christians in the West Bank are multiplying,” Auxiliary Bishop William Shomali of Jerusalem told “EWTN News Nightly.”
www.ewtnnews.com/world/middle...
Yesterday morning I stepped outside on my balcony for coffee with my wife and our neighbor. The drone was as low as it has ever been. We saw it over our heads. Below, our alleyway had turned into a parking lot for displaced people’s cars. A school next door is hosting around 1500 people.
Street in Groningen, sun, coffee, cyclists
And from Groningen - similar vibes it seems
