Category: Middle East
EGYPTIAN PANEL DROPS MASPERO MASSACRE CASE FOR ‘LACK OF EVIDENCE’
On April 24 the panel of judges appointed by the Egyptian minister of justice to investigate the Maspero massacre of October 9, 2011, which claimed ... Read More
Armenians mark genocide with march to Turkish Embassy
Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star 25/4/2012 ANTELIAS/ RABIEH, Lebanon: Nearly 25,000 Lebanese-Armenians marched to the Turkish Embassy in Metn’s Rabieh Tuesday, calling on Ankara to ... Read More
Remembering Genocide
Nora Nalbandian discusses exhibits at the Ararat-Eskijian Museum, which remembers victims of Armenian genocide. Read More
Easter is celebrated at Armenian church in Turkey’s Diyarbakir
16/4/2012 An Easter Liturgy was celebrated for the first time in the St. Giragos Armenian Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey, ever since its restoration. The Divine ... Read More
Archbishop Hanna: Syria Will Be Victorious against Conspiracy
17/4/2012 R. Raslan/ Ghossoun DAMASCUS, (SANA) – The Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebastia, Atallah Hanna, Stressed that Syria will achieve victory thanks to the awareness ... Read More
Islamists force 50,000 Christians to flee from Syrian city of Homs
Damascus: April 16, 2012. (PCP) The Syrian Orthodox Church, which represents over half of Syrian Christians, issued a statement saying revolutionary fighters had expelled some ... Read More
One Armenian’s Fateful Escape from the Titanic
Krekprian rarely spoke about his experience on the Titanic Armenian Titanic survivor Neshan Krekorian (seated left) with his wife, Persape (seated right), daughter Angie (center), ... Read More
HIS HOLINESS ARAM I CONDEMNS THE BREACH OF FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS OF GREEK ORTHODOX BY THE ILLEGAL REGIME OF THE TURKISH OCCUPIED CYPRUS
12/4/2012 On April 11 2012, His Holiness Aram I received a letter from the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Dr. Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, informing ... Read More
After Arab Spring, experts fearful of Christian targeting at Easter celebrations
By Dan Merica, CNN 7/4/2012 (CNN)– For Christians in countries thrown into tumult by the Arab Spring revolutions, Easter celebrations may prove dangerous. According to ... Read More
Coptic church denies lifting ban
By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent 8/4/2012 Cairo: The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied lifting a ban on pilgrimage to occupied Jerusalem as more Egyptian Christians ... Read More