Christian Communities in the Middle East: Villages and Towns Timeline 523–2026 body { font-family: Arial, sans-serif; background-color: #f4f4f9; margin: 0; padding: 0; } .ti...
Reports circulating online have drawn widespread attention to a legislative proposal in Israel that would place restrictions on certain forms of religious proselytizing, including the sha...
Washington, D.C., United StatesRabbi Bernard “Barry” Freundel was arrested in Washington, D.C., on October 14, 2014, after police began investigating allegations that he had secretly reco...
Yazidi Genocide On August 3, 2014, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) launched an हमला on the Sinjar region of northern Iraq, targeting the Yazidi minority. ISIS forces captured ...
The Dönmeh were a religious community that emerged in the late 17th century within the Ottoman Empire, originating from followers of Sabbatai Zevi, a Jewish rabbi who declared himself the...
Expulsion of Jews from Portugal On December 5, 1497, King Manuel I of Portugal issued an edict requiring all Jews to either convert to Christianity or leave the kingdom. Unlike the Spani...
The Ottoman Empire expanded from a small Anatolian principality into one of the largest empires in history. Between the fourteenth and early twentieth centuries, Ottoman forces conquered ...
Expulsion of Jews from Speyer On October 15, 1435, the city council of Speyer, a city within the Holy Roman Empire, issued an expulsion order for all Jewish residents. The decree require...
Expulsion of Jews from France On July 22, 1306, King Philip IV of France, also known as Philip the Fair, issued an edict expelling all Jews from the kingdom. The expulsion required Jewis...
The Khazarian Empire: History, Territory, and Conversion to Judaism The Khazar Empire was a Turkic polity that emerged in the mid-seventh century and became a major regional po...
Moorish Invasion Of The Iberian Peninsula On April 30, 711, Umayyad forces led by the Berber commander Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed the Strait of Gibraltar from North Africa into th...
Najran Massacre 523 AD In 523 AD, the Himyarite king Yusuf Asar Dhu Nuwas, a Jewish ruler of the Himyarite Kingdom in present day Yemen, targeted the Christian population of Najr...
Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity after the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. His conversion led to the legalization of Christianity within the Roman Empire. This marked Christi...
Longinus is the name given in later Christian tradition to the Roman soldier said to have pierced the side of Jesus during the crucifixion with a spear, as described in the Gospel of John...
Paul the Apostle, formerly known as Saul of Tarsus, experienced a profound conversion while traveling to Damascus. Initially a vigorous persecutor of early Christians, he was struck by a ...
The Edomites, also known in later sources as Idumeans, were an ancient Semitic people who lived in the region south of Judea, historically associated with the descendants of Esau in bibli...
16th–18th centuries — Islam spreads substantially among Albanian populations under Ottoman rule. Conversion varies greatly by region and period. Catholic communities remain especially imp...
641–1000 CE — Arabic did not replace Coptic immediately after the conquest. Government, migration, urban life, taxation, religious conversion and social mobility gradually change the ling...
7th–10th centuries — Arabic increasingly replaces Greek and Coptic in government and eventually becomes the dominant spoken language. Conversion to Islam occurs over generations rather th...
16 January 1942 — Roosevelt creates the War Production Board to coordinate conversion of the American economy to wartime needs. Automobile plants, steel mills, aircraft factories and ship...