Category: Middle East
Syria’s muted Easter Celebration
Christians in Syria give great prominence to Easter. Here a Syrian girl lights a candle during the Palm Sunday celebrations. Photograph: Youssef Badawi/EPA Thomas McGee ... Read More
His Holiness Patriarch meets with the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I
Ecumenical Patriarchate- Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate Eastern -Oriental Orthodox ISTANBUL, TURKEY: On Friday, April the 1st, at 10:00AM, His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, ... Read More
Jerusalem, City of Religions and Divisions
By Wladimir 14/3/2011 While gazing towards a huge mosque and its surroundings from the Mount of Olives at the Dominus Flevit Church, a Christian guide ... Read More
Chrysostomos of Cyprus: no desire for “human rights” war with Turkey
NAT da Polis 31/3/2011 The Orthodox archbishop talks to AsiaNews about the situation on the island occupied by Turkey, the risks to Christianity in the ... Read More
Lebanon: Bomb against church in Zahle as fear of a resurgence in terrorism grows in Lebanon
Asia News 28/3/2011 The blast occurred overnight on Saturday against Our Lady Syro-Orthodox Church in Zahle, in the Bekaa Valley. Read More
Orthodox Churches in the Indian Sub Continent and South East Asia
The Holy Chinese Orthodox Martyrs of the Boxer Rebellion March 2011 The following article tries to discus an account of the presence of Orthodox Churches ... Read More
Metropolitan Nicholas Reposes In The Lord
1936 – 2011 Primate of the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the U.S.A. Titular Metropolitan of Amissos Consecrated as Bishop March 13, 1983 Enthroned as ... Read More
THE EGYPTIAN REVOLUTION
8/3/2011 How the Church reacted When the Egyptian Revolution broke out on 25 January, the Coptic Orthodox Church was still reeling from the effects of ... Read More
Martorana: Palermo’s Byzantine Jewel
Examples of Greek Orthodox culture can still be found in Palermo, Sicily at the Santo Maria dell’Ammriaglio, (Santa Maria of the Admiral), the Martorana, which ... Read More
Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches
19/2/2011 Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches held at Cyprus on 17-18th. ADDRESS BY HIS BEATITUDE ARCHBISHOP CHRYSOSTOMOS OF ... Read More