{"id":600,"date":"2016-10-07T14:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T14:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?post_type=project&#038;p=600"},"modified":"2017-03-17T16:34:21","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T16:34:21","slug":"jordan","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/project\/jordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><h2>&#8220;Giving hope in bleak times: help for young Jordanians, both Christian and Muslim \u201cWe must not leave the extremists a clear field\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>Jordan, 30 December 2014: For years, the Hashemite Kingdom has been a haven for refugees from Iraq. However, refugees are also arriving by the thousands from Syria. They are fleeing from war and violence, the result of the most recent political developments and an increasingly militant Islamism. The entire region is now under threat because hundreds of thousands, both Christians and Muslims, have been or are being uprooted. There are many Christians among those who have had to flee their homes \u201cwho have lost everything but not given up their faith,\u201d according to Father Rifat Bader. The Catholic priest works as a pastor in Jordan, but also carries out media and public relations work by order of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which comprises Israel, Jordan, Palestine and Cyprus. When asked how he would assess the current situation of Christians in Jordan, Fr Bader answered with a concrete example: \u201cIn my parish in Naour, which belongs to the Latin Patriarchate, we live and pray with 40 refugees every day. The future is bleak at the moment. The Christians from Iraq do not want to return to their homes; they just want to escape to other countries. Jordan may be safe, but they will not be allowed to remain here.\u201d Father Rifat Bader has built a media centre in Amman and developed the Arab and English-language website \u201cabouna.org\u201d through the financial support of Aid to the Church in Need (ACN). Both projects should \u201cnot favour one religion at the cost of the others, but promote a dialogue, especially among Christians and Muslims,\u201d he emphasised. He then added, \u201cWe would like to see that it is possible to coexist peacefully and for Christians to remain in the Middle East. If the United Nations helps with schools, with housing, with work, then why shouldn\u2019t the Christians stay?\u201d According to Father Rifat Bader, approximately 180,000 native Christians are currently living in Jordan and he estimates that 70,000 Christian Jordanians live in other countries. These have been joined by umpteen thousands of Christian refugees from Iraq and Syria who fled together with hundreds of thousands of their Muslim countrymen. \u201cMany Christians are waiting for visas to be able to leave the country for third countries. We help them, but at the same time want to give them more than just food, namely dignity, and strengthen their Christian identity.\u201d The refugees are first housed in refugee centres; the church currently maintains seven of these. The capacities, however, are not enough. \u201cWe need further centres, because unfortunately, even more refugees will be coming,\u201d Father Rifat Bader said. In addition to public relations work, Aid to the Church in Need supports various aid programmes for refugee families and children as well as youth work and youth pastoral care. According to Father Rifat Bader, the young generation faces especially great challenges. He believes that Jordan\u2019s future absolutely depends on taking young people much more seriously. \u201cWe have entered into a dialogue with Muslim leaders. We meet each other at conferences at five-star hotels but also have to be ready to answer questions concerning what actually comes out of them. Young people make up seventy per cent of the Jordanian population. We must not ignore their concerns. We have to reach out to them more.\u201d According to the Catholic priest, extremists use the lack of work prospects and the serious social problems within the country for propaganda purposes, including the Internet. Father Rifat Bader said, \u201cWe must not leave them a clear field. This is why young people should be allowed to have their say. We want to bring Muslims and Christians of various denominations together, open doors and look for solutions. We want to take to the streets and go to the peripheries, as Pope Francis said.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Giving hope in bleak times: help for young Jordanians, both Christian and Muslim \u201cWe must not leave the extremists a clear field\u201d Jordan, 30 December 2014: For years, the Hashemite Kingdom has been a haven for refugees from Iraq. However, refugees are also arriving by the thousands from Syria. 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