Kekristenan pada abad ke-21
Kekristenan pada abad ke-21 diwarnai oleh upaya penyatuan Gereja dan pergolakan berkelanjutan terhadap penindasan dan sekulerisasi.
Gereja Katolik
[sunting | sunting sumber]Fransiskus
[sunting | sunting sumber]Setelah pengunduran diri Benediktus, Fransiskus menjadi Paus Yesuit pertama, Paus pertama dari benua Amerika, dan Paus pertama dari Hemisfer Selatan.[1]
Ortodoks Timur
[sunting | sunting sumber]Setelah kejatuhan Mosul, Negara Islam Irak dan Syam menuntut agar umat Kristen Asiria yang tinggal di kota tersebut untuk menjadi mualaf, membayar jizyah atau dihukum mati, pada 19 Juli 2014.[2][3][4][5][6]
Ortodoks Oriental
[sunting | sunting sumber]Gereja Armenia
[sunting | sunting sumber]Pada 23 April 2015, Gereja Apostolik Armenia mengkanonisasikan para martir korban Genosida Armenia, yang dimulai seratus tahun sebelum keesokan harinya pada 24 April 1915; upacara tersebut diyakini menjadi upacara kanonisasi terbesar dalam sejarah.[7][8][9] Upacara tersebut adalah kanonisasi pertama oleh Gereja Apostolik Armenia dalam empat ratus tahun.[10]
Gereja Kubti
[sunting | sunting sumber]Natal Kubti diangkat menjadi hari libur nasional resmi di Mesir pada 2002.
Di Lapangan Tahrir, Kairo, pada Rabu 2 Februari 2011, umat Kristen Koptik menjaga umat Muslim saat salat pada Revolusi Mesir 2011.[11]
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Cardinal Walter Kasper Says Pope Francis Will Bring New Life To Vatican II
- ^ "BBC News - Iraqi Christians flee after Isis issue Mosul ultimatum". BBC News. Diakses tanggal 13 February 2015.
- ^ van Tets, Fernande (7 August 2014). "Isis takes Iraq's largest Christian town as residents told – 'leave, convert or die'". The Independent. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-01-05. Diakses tanggal 5 January 2015.
- ^ Jadallah, Ahmed (18 July 2014). "Convert, pay tax, or die, Islamic State warns Christians". Reuters. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2015-01-05. Diakses tanggal 5 January 2015.
- ^ Erb, Kelly Phillips (19 July 2014). "Islamic State Warns Christians: Convert, Pay Tax, Leave Or Die". Forbes. Diakses tanggal 4 July 2016.
- ^ "Convert, pay tax, or die, Islamic State warns Christians". Reuters. 18 July 2014.
It said that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, had set a Saturday deadline for Christians who did not want to stay and live under those terms to "leave the borders of the Islamic Caliphate". "After this date, there is nothing between us and them but the sword," it said.
- ^ Davlashyan, Naira. "Armenian Church makes saints of 1.5 million genocide victims – Yahoo News". News.yahoo.com. Diakses tanggal 2015-04-23.
- ^ "Armenian Genocide victims canonized in Holy Etchmiadzin". Panarmenian.Net. Diakses tanggal 2015-04-23.
- ^ "Canonized: Armenian Church proclaims collective martyrdom of Genocide victims – Genocide". ArmeniaNow.com. 2015-04-23. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 2020-07-29. Diakses tanggal 2019-03-10.
- ^ "After 400 years, new saints for the Armenian Church". Risu.org.ua. 2015-04-23.
- ^ Christians protect Muslims during prayer in Cairo's dangerous Tahrir square Diarsipkan 2011-02-06 di Wayback Machine., Nevine Zaki, 3 February 2011, accessed 9 February 2011
Bacaan tambahan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Farrell, Joseph P. God, History, & Dialectic: The Theological Foundations of the Two Europes and Their Cultural Consequences. Bound edition 1997. Electronic edition 2008.
- González, Justo L. (1985). The Story of Christianity, Vol. 2: The Reformation to the Present Day. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 0-06-063316-6.
- Hastings, Adrian (1999). A World History of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. ISBN 0-8028-4875-3.
- Latourette, Kenneth Scott (1975). A History of Christianity, Volume 2. San Francisco: Harper. ISBN 0-06-064953-4.
- Nichols, Aidan. Rome and the Eastern Churches: a Study in Schism. 1992
- Shelley, Bruce L. (1996). Church History in Plain Language (edisi ke-2nd). ISBN 0-8499-3861-9.
Pranala luar
[sunting | sunting sumber]- History of Christianity Reading Room:[pranala nonaktif permanen] Extensive online resources for the study of global church history (Tyndale Seminary).
- Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Christianity in History di Archive.is (diarsipkan tanggal October 16, 2007)
- Phillips, Walter Alison (1911). "Church History". Encyclopædia Britannica. 6 (edisi ke-11). hlm. 330–345.
- Historical Christianity, A time line with references to the descendants of the early church. di Wayback Machine (diarsipkan tanggal February 2, 2007)