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Clotilde Bigot is a freelance journalist based in Beirut, Lebanon.
The Rev. Najib Amil, pastor of St. Georges, a Maronite parish in Rmeich in southern Lebanon on Oct. 23. Photo by Hunter Williamson.
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
Since the most recent conflict started, Hezbollah has launched rockets into Israel, provoking counterattacks targeting Hezbollah positions that have been established in the hills around these usually quiet Christian agricultural villages along the border.
A demonstrator runs on the third night of protests sparked by the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver in the Paris suburb of Nanterre, France, Friday, June 30, 2023. Widespread riots in France sparked by the police killing of a teenager with North African roots have revealed the depth of discontent roiling poor neighborhoods — and given a new platform to the increasingly emboldened far right. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Clotilde Bigot
Merzouk’s killing blew the lid off years of simmering resentment because of the police treatment of black and Arab youth, the ghettoization of immigrants and their descendants and the general hopelessness among black and Arab youth who feel like second-class citizens in France.
A man rides a motorcycle past debris from destroyed buildings in Samandag, southern Turkey, on Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
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Clotilde Bigot
Long before the earthquakes in February, the viability of the Christian community in Samandag had been under cultural and economic threat. Many from the city’s minority Christian community had already departed, seeking economic or educational opportunities elsewhere.
Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy inside Holy Martyrs Adrian and Natalia church in Odesa. Photo by Matthieu de La Rochefoucauld.
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Clotilde Bigot
“The church of Odesa shares the pain of its inhabitants. The church is not a building; it is people,” said Archpriest Maximian Pogorelovskiy, a spokesperson for the Orthodox Diocese of Odesa.