Maurizio Molinari,Vatican Insider: Decorated stone houses, rolling drums and the smell of grilled wild boar meat wafting through the air. It is a day of celebration for Jordan’s last Christian enclave: a young couple from two of the most prominent Christian families in the area are getting married. We are a twenty minute drive away from the Jordanian capital Amman, in a corner of the Middle East where alcohol is no taboo, wild boar hunters are the most sought after chefs, houses are decorated with depictions of the Virgin Mary, everyone dances the dabke and men and women flirt under the very noses of their family and friends. This is the Christian East. Christians here are mostly Orthodox but there are Catholics as well and they consider themselves proud successors of the Byzantine Empire but they are suffering the siege of radical Islam. Read more here.
