Category: Syria

“This Was a Massacre”: Patriarch John X Leads Funeral for Martyrs of Damascus Church Attack

OCP- June 24, 2025

OCP News Service  & Orthodox Times – 24/06/2025 Damascus – Syria : With heavy hearts and solemn prayers, the funeral and memorial service for the ... Read More

Sanctuary Shattered: Suicide Attack Strikes St. Elias Orthodox Church

OCP- June 22, 2025

Gerges Mounir Hanna – OCP News Service – 22/06/2025 Damascus - Syria : On the morning of Sunday, June 22, 2025, a brutal terrorist attack ... Read More

Church Leaders Condemn Massacres in Syria, Call for Peace

OCP- March 10, 2025

Ortho Christian and OCP News Service – 10/03/2025 Damascus – Syria: Brutal violence erupted in Syria last week as security forces of the new government ... Read More

Ecumenical Patriarch Received Bishop George Kourieh of Belgium, France, and Luxembourg

OCP- February 5, 2025

facebook.com/george.kourie.9 OCP News Service – 05/02/2025 Constantinople – Turkey: His Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I received His Eminence Bishop George Kourieh of Belgium, France, and ... Read More

Patriarch John X Received Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II

OCP- February 23, 2024

antiochpatriarchate.org OCP News Service – 23/02/2024 Damascus – Syria: HH Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Syrian Orthodox Church visited HH Patriarch John X of Antioch ... Read More

Mor Chrysostomos Mikhael Shamoun Enthroned as Archbishop of Mount Lebanon and Tripoli

OCP- November 29, 2023

OCP News Service – 29/11/2023 Beirut– Lebanon: In a solemn ceremony held at St. Jacob of Seroug in Bauchrieh on 26 November 2023, His Holiness ... Read More

Syrian Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Visits Armenian Patriarchate of Constantinople

OCP- October 17, 2023

Ermeni Patrikligi OCP News Service – 17/10/2023 Constantinople- Turkey: HH Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Syrian Orthodox Church visited Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople during his ... Read More

Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Received Indian Minister of State for External Affairs

OCP- July 14, 2023

Pic: His Holiness Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II/ Facebook OCP News Service – 13/07/2023 Syria-Damascus: Indian Minister of State for External Affairs His Excellency V. Muraleedharan ... Read More

Three Dioceses to be Created in Central American Archdiocese of Syrian Orthodox Church

OCP- June 14, 2023

https://www.icergua.org/ OCP News Service – 14/06/2023 Lebanon: HH Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II through his apostolic encyclical announced the creation of three new dioceses under the Central ... Read More

Ambassador of Syria to Serbia Thanked Serbian Orthodox Church for its Help and Aid

OCP- February 26, 2023

https://spc.rs/ OCP News Service – 25/02/2022 Belgrade-Serbia: Ambassador Basema Dzaman Agu of the Republic of Syria to Serbia on behalf of president Bashar el-Assad thanked ... Read More