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Catholic Church In Yemen
The Catholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Christians as a group make up 0.06% of Yemen’s population. Most of these are Orthodox Christians. In 2020, there were four hundred Catholics in the country, which included one priest and eight nuns. There are also approximately 2,500 Catholics who are temporary foreign workers or refugees. The Catholic Church in Yemen forms part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia. Persecution Three nuns who were members of the Missionaries of Charity were killed in Hodeida 1998. In the same year, Yemen and the Vatican established diplomatic relations. On 4 March 2016, terrorists of uncertain affiliation attacked a Catholic home for the elderly in Aden, killing sixteen people including four missionary sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and some local Muslim workers. It is reported that at Christians and other religious minorities are often discriminated ...
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Church In Aden 1600s
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Missionaries Of Charity Attack In Aden
The Missionaries of Charity attack in Aden was a mass murder crime committed by unknown gunmen inside a home for older people in Aden, Yemen on 4 March 2016. 16 people were killed, including four Catholic nuns. An Indian priest, Tom Ozhonaniel, was kidnapped. The identities of the attackers are unknown. Media outlets published a statement attributed to Ansar al-Sharia, one of the active jihadist organizations in the country, denying any relation to the incident. ''The Times of India'' posited the attackers belonged to the Yemen-based affiliate of the Islamic State (ISIS) group. Background Christian presence in Yemen goes back to the fourth century AD to hold a number of Himyarites believers due to the efforts of Theophilos the Indian. Currently, there are no official statistics on their numbers, but estimated at between 3,000 and 25,000 people, and most of them are refugees or temporary residents. Freedom of worship, conversion from Islam and establishing facilities dedic ...
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Catholic Church By Country
The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome (the pope)." The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. According to Vatican II's , the "church has but one sole purpose–that the kingdom of God may come and the salvation of the human race may be accomplished." This communion of churches comprises the Latin Church (or the Roman or Western Church) as well as 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, canonically called ''sui juris'' churches, each led by either a patriarch or a major archbishop in full communion with the Bishop of Rome. Historically, these bodies separated from Eastern Christian communions, either to remain in or to return to full communion with the Catholic Church. Vatican II decree on Eastern Catholic Churches, however, explicitly recognizes Eastern Catholic communities as "true Churches" a ...
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Catholic Church In Asia
Christianity in Asia has its roots in the very inception of Christianity, which originated from the life and teachings of Jesus in 1st-century Roman Judea. Christianity then spread through the missionary work of his apostles, first in the Levant and taking roots in the major cities such as Jerusalem and Antioch. According to tradition, further eastward expansion occurred via the preaching of Thomas the Apostle, who established Christianity in the Parthian Empire (Iran) and India. The very First Ecumenical Council was held in the city of Nicaea in Asia Minor (325). The first nations to adopt Christianity as a state religion were Armenia in 301 and Georgia in 327. By the 4th century, Christianity became the dominant religion in all Asian provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire. After the First Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Nestorian Schism, the Nestorian Christianity developed. Nestorians began converting Mongols around the 7th century, and Nestorian Christianity was probably i ...
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Catholic Church In Yemen
The Catholic Church in Yemen is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Christians as a group make up 0.06% of Yemen’s population. Most of these are Orthodox Christians. In 2020, there were four hundred Catholics in the country, which included one priest and eight nuns. There are also approximately 2,500 Catholics who are temporary foreign workers or refugees. The Catholic Church in Yemen forms part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Southern Arabia. Persecution Three nuns who were members of the Missionaries of Charity were killed in Hodeida 1998. In the same year, Yemen and the Vatican established diplomatic relations. On 4 March 2016, terrorists of uncertain affiliation attacked a Catholic home for the elderly in Aden, killing sixteen people including four missionary sisters of the Missionaries of Charity and some local Muslim workers. It is reported that at Christians and other religious minorities are often discriminated ...
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Protestantism In Yemen
Protestants make up 0.05% of the population of Yemen in 2023, while Christians as a group make up 0.08% of the country’s population. It is unknown when Protestants first arrived in Yemen, but records show that the British Bible Society opened a bookshop there in 1886. The following year the Church of Scotland Mission to South Arabia sent a missionary ( Ion Keith Falconer) to Sheikh Othman in Adan. A medical colleague later opened a hospital in his memory. The Church of Scotland Mission worked with Danish missionary Oluf Høyer in Aden in 1904. In the early 21st century peaceful relations between Christians and Muslims contribute to religious freedom. However, it is reported that at Christians and other religious minorities are often discriminated against when attempting to access humanitarian aid. An American Baptist congregation is affiliated with a hospital in Jibla. Christ Church Aden, part of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, runs the charitable Ras ...
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Christianity In Yemen
Christianity is a minority religion in Yemen. The Yemeni constitution mentions religious liberty. There are three churches in Aden. History Christianity was a widespread religion on the territory of contemporary Yemen as early as in 6th century before arrival of Islam in Yemen. Divisions between Jews and Christians led to the latter being persecuted under the Jewish Kingdom of Himyar. After the Ethiopian invasion of Yemen, the Ethiopian-based Kingdom of Axum supported the local Christian community and tried to encourage the growth of Christianity in the region. This led to a revenge suppression of Yemenite Jews by their new rulers. Present situation According to one 2008 estimate, there are 3,000 Christians in Yemen, most of whom are foreign nationals and temporary residents.United States Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and LaborYemen: International Religious Freedom Report 2008 Pew-Templeton estimates the number of Christians in Yemen at 40,000. There are about 4,000 C ...
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Religion In Yemen
Yemen is an Islamic society. Nearly all Yemenis are Muslims, with approximately 65% belonging to the Sunni Islam and approximately 35% belonging to the Zaydi Shia school of thought. Amongst the native population, there are approximately 1,000 Christians, and 6 remaining Jews. However, Pew-Templeton estimates the number of Christians to be as high as 40,000, though most do not publicly identify as such, due to fears of religious persecution. According to WIN/Gallup International polls, Yemen has the most religious population among Arab countries and it is one of the most religious populations world-wide. Religious minorities Jews are the oldest Abrahamic religious minority. Nearly all of the country's once-sizable Jewish population has emigrated. As of 2008, fewer than 400 Jews remained in the northern part of the country, primarily in Amran Governorate. Since January 2007, the historic Saada governorate community of 45 Jews have lived in Sana'a, under the protection ...
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Holy See
The Holy See ( lat, Sancta Sedes, ; it, Santa Sede ), also called the See of Rome, Petrine See or Apostolic See, is the jurisdiction of the Pope in his role as the bishop of Rome. It includes the apostolic episcopal see of the Diocese of Rome, which has ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the Catholic Church and the sovereign city-state known as the Vatican City. According to Catholic tradition it was founded in the first century by Saints Peter and Paul and, by virtue of Petrine and papal primacy, is the focal point of full communion for Catholic Christians around the world. As a sovereign entity, the Holy See is headquartered in, operates from, and exercises "exclusive dominion" over the independent Vatican City State enclave in Rome, of which the pope is sovereign. The Holy See is administered by the Roman Curia (Latin for "Roman Court"), which is the central government of the Catholic Church. The Roman Curia includes various dicasteries, comparable to ministries and ex ...
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization.O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it is the on ...
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Hodeida
Al-Hudaydah ( ar, الْحُدَيْدَة, al-ḥudayda), also transliterated as Hodeda, Hodeida, Hudaida or Hodeidah, is the fourth-largest city in Yemen and its principal port on the Red Sea. As of 2004, its population was 402,560 and it is the centre of the Al Hudaydah Governorate. History In the Islamic chronicles, the name Al-Hudaydah was first mentioned in the year 1454/55 and the city became a popular and important one in the 1520s when the Ottomans took over Yemeni Tihāmah. In 1830s, Al Hudaydah was controlled by Ibrahim Pasha's troops, which turned over its administration to sherif Husayn ibn Ali Haydar. In 1849, it became part of the Yemen Eyalet. The Malay writer Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir visited Al Hudaydah on his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1854, and describes the city in his account of the journey, mentioning that the custom of chewing khat was prevalent in the city at this time. In 1914, during the First World War, German troops led by Major Freiherr Othmar von ...
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Missionaries Of Charity
The Missionaries of Charity ( la, Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic centralized religious institute of consecrated life of Pontifical Right for women established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. , it consisted of 5,281 members religious sisters. Members of the order designate their affiliation using the order's initials, "M.C.". A member of the congregation must adhere to the vows of chastity, poverty, obedience, and the fourth vow, to give "wholehearted free service to the poorest of the poor." Today, the order consists of both contemplative and active branches in several countries. Missionaries care for those who include refugees, former prostitutes, the mentally ill, sick children, abandoned children, lepers, people with AIDS, the aged, and convalescent. They have schools that are run by volunteers to teach abandoned street children and run soup kitchens as well as other services according to the com ...
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