Category: Middle East
Church in Turkey’s Southeast preparing for Religious Ceremony
The restoration of the Surp Giragos Church in Diyarbakır has been coordinated by the Istanbul Armenians Foundation and Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality. 8/2/2011 VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU ISTANBUL ... Read More
Egypt’s uprising stirs fears of persecution of minority Coptic Christians
Nabila Rizkalla and other parishioners at St. Read More
Fate of Copts ignored by the secular West
Angela Shanahan – The Australian 5/2/2011 Egypt’s long-suffering Coptic Christians are justified in their fear of an Islamic revolution A DISTURBING feature of the crisis ... Read More
Coptic Christians Worry About Future Without Mubarak
By MARC CHAMPION 1/2/2011 ALEXANDRIA, Egypt—Like the protesters who have flooded the streets of Egypt in the past week, the country’s large minority of Coptic ... Read More
Egypt Day of Prayer 2011
14/1/2011 Join with Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) to pray for this Middle Eastern nation and its Christian minorities who are suffering for their faith. Read More
New Converts Flocking to an Ancient Church
St. Jonah Orthodox Church's congregation in Spring By JEANNIE KEVER HOUSTON CHRONICLE 8/1/2011 Like many of his parishioners, Father Richard Petranek came to the Orthodox ... Read More
Arab press angered by Coptic Church Blast
3/1/2011 The Egyptian press has reacted angrily to the suicide bombing that targeted a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s Day, with several papers ... Read More
Who are Egypt’s Copts, and the Middle East’s other Christian populations?
Recent attacks against Christians in Egypt and Iraq have drawn attention to the Middle East’s Christian populations, which are dwindling as Christians flee violence, political ... Read More