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Embrace the Middle East is a charity, originally founded in 1854 as a Christian mission to the
Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...
and now active in the successor states with projects in healthcare, education and community development.


History

The society was set up in 1854 by a group of English
evangelical Evangelicalism (), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide Interdenominationalism, interdenominational movement within Protestantism, Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "bor ...
philanthropists including Sir
Culling Eardley Sir Culling Eardley Eardley, 3rd Baronet (''né'' Smith; 21 April 1805 – 21 May 1863) was a British Christian campaigner for religious freedom and for the Protestant cause, one of the founders of the Evangelical Alliance. Early life Born in Lon ...
and
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as the ''Turkish Missions' Aid Society'', its purpose being to support Armenian Christians in Turkey. A supporter magazine, ''The Star in the East''l was first published in 1883.Embrace the Middle East website: history
/ref> In 1893, as its activities outside Turkey developed, the society changed its name to ''Bible Lands Missions Aid Society''. In 1962 it changed its name again to ''Bible Lands Society'', then in 1996 to ''BibleLands'' and finally in 2012 to ''Embrace the Middle East''. Archives of the society are held at the Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham.


Political stance

''Embrace'' is broadly sympathetic to the cause of the Palestinians and has been attacked as such by
NGO Monitor NGO Monitor (Non-governmental Organization Monitor) is a right-wing Right-wing politics describes the range of political ideologies that view certain social orders and hierarchies as inevitable, natural, normal, or desirable, typically ...
.NGO Monitor listing
/ref> But one must question the objectivity of NGO Monitor's statements due to it
pro-Israeli
tendencies.


References

Christian charities based in the United Kingdom Religious organizations established in 1854 Christian organizations established in the 19th century 1854 establishments in the United Kingdom {{charity-stub