Category: Middle East

Obama-backed Syrian Rebels “Ethnic Cleansing” Christians

obl- April 3, 2012

ALEX NEWMAN 2/4/2012 Armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria supported by the Obama administration and Western governments seeking to oust “President” Bashir al-Assad are engaged ... Read More

Orthodox Primates Stress Need for Peace and Stability in Middle East

obl- March 30, 2012

30/3/2012 On the invitation of His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II, and in the framework of the pastoral care of the Senior Patriarchates of ... Read More

The Plight Of Egypt’s Coptic Christians

OCP- March 30, 2012

29/3/2012 A Question Of Faith – Religion In The Modern World is a weekly column by Wolff Bachner about the quest for religious identity and ... Read More

America and the plight of Christians in the Middle East: mistake or evil intention?

obl- March 28, 2012

Babich Dmitry 28/3/2012 What has happened to the religious freedoms in the Middle East 10 years after US president George W. Read More

90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria

obl- March 26, 2012

26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role ... Read More

World pays tribute to Pope Shenouda

obl- March 23, 2012

Mourning: the body of Pope Shenouda III in state (above, left) observed by the faithful PA Gerald Butt Middle East Correspondent 22/3/2012 MEMBERS of the ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill Mourns Pope Shenouda

obl- March 19, 2012

19/3/2012 Translated using Google translate service. Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill expressed his condolences to the members of the Holy Synod of the ... Read More

ADIEU TO OUR BELOVED AND EVER LOVING PAPA SHENOUDA III

obl- March 17, 2012

POPE SHENOUDA III - The 117th Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ... Read More

Christians angry as Saudi Grand Mufti calls for churches to be destroyed

OCP- March 16, 2012

Egypt's Copts at a service. Joseph Mayton 16/3/2012 Christians across the Middle East are expressing anger and frustration after the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia ... Read More

Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for “Destruction of All Churches in Region”

OCP- March 16, 2012

Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Raymond Ibrahim 16/3/2012 According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz ... Read More