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She was invited as a speaker in the dinner-talk that took place last April the 9th in the Vel\u00e1zquez Hotel in Madrid. The debate was called \u201cSociety and Living Together in the Arab Countries\u201d<\/strong> and it was organized by the Opinion Forum Jorge Juan.\u00a0 <\/p>\nMoreover, the 10th of April Jumana Trad was invited again to give a speech on \u201cArab World and Christians\u2019 Situation\u201d<\/strong> in the auditorium Real Oratorio de Caballero de Gracia.\u00a0 In these conferences, the President of the FPSC made clear that Christians are not upstarts in the region, because they live there since the origins of Christianism. Muslims came afterwards: from the VII Century with Muhammad. <\/p>\n She gave some relevant data, for example that the first seven Ecumenical Councils took place in the Middle East and that the first printing press that printed in Arabic, thanks to a monk, is in Lebanon. These pieces of information give us an idea of how important Christians were in the Middle East for History.\u00a0 <\/p>\n For centuries Christians directly contributed to cultural and social development in these countries. <\/p>\n She analyzed the current situation of Christians, clearly getting worse, so in the 90\u2019s there were 1,300,000 Christians in Iraq and now there are less than 200,000 and almost none of them in its mother town. A lot of them were sheltered in a typical Christian region, between Mosul and the N\u00ednive valley, but in the last months the Islamic State has thrown them away from this shelter without its belongings, nor identity cards, and carrying the dramatic load of having members of their families killed or hijacked. <\/p>\n However, Jumana Trad sounded hopeful. Armenia was close to disappear, but today it is a free country. In 1860 there was an important religious chase in Lebanon, but for years it has been a country with freedom of religion, the only one in the Arab world. <\/p>\n The exhibition was well accepted among the students, and it had a lot of visibility thanks to its strategic placement.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
Both events were crowded, so there weren\u2019t available seats. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/promocionsocial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Jumana_Trad_Caballero_de_Gracia_-_aj.jpg\")
In Muslim countries it is difficult to separate religion and politics: the Islam is the religion of the State. Because of this bond, the situation has never been easy for Christians since the Islam expansion. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/promocionsocial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/UNAV_-_aj.jpg\")
On the other hand, from the 9th of April until the 23rd the FPSC exhibition \u201cHumanitarian Crisis in the Middle East in Pictures: Disability in the Foreground\u201d<\/strong> has been opened in the Communication Department of the Navarra University. This exhibition shows in 50 photographs the work of The Foundation for the Social Promotion of Culture in refugee camps together with other associations in the Middle East, mainly working for people with disabilities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/promocionsocial.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/UNAV_2_-_aj.jpg\")
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