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