Category: NY

Dozens of Copts protest Pope’s Christmas Eve invitation to Salafis

obl- December 30, 2011

30/12/2011 Dozens of Coptic youth staged a protest inside Saint Mark’s Coptic Orthodox Cathedral on Friday against Pope Shenouda’s invitation to Salafis and the Muslim ... Read More

Turkey’s only all-Armenian village a lens to the past

OCP- December 30, 2011

In Vakifli Koyu St. Astvatzatzin Armenian Apostolic Church has its first resident pastor in more than a decade. Read More

Bethlehem’s church of the punch-up

OCP- December 30, 2011

Giles Fraser 29/12/2011 The latest brawl between Armenian and Orthodox monks in Bethlehem is a product of Christianity’s romance with buildings. It’s become something of ... Read More

Surb Vordvots Vorotman church of Istanbul renovated

obl- December 28, 2011

28/12/2011 The renovation of Surb Vordvots Vorotman Armenian church of Istanbul is completed, Turkish Customs and Trade Minister Hayati Yazici said, according to Ermenihaber.am news ... Read More

Islamofascism And The War on Nigeria’s Christians

obl- December 28, 2011

12/27/2011 Islamofascism: Scores of Christians attending Catholic mass in Nigerian churches were slaughtered in their pews by massive bomb blasts on Christmas Day. While decried ... Read More

Christianity under siege as believers are persecuted

obl- December 28, 2011

St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, hit by a bomb on Christmas Day. Worldwide, the attacks on Christians grow NEW YORK DAILY NEWS 28/12/2011 ... Read More

No instant secularism

obl- December 28, 2011

A Syrian man dressed as Santa Claus entertains orphans at the Mar Takla monastery in the Christian village of Maalula on December 23, 2011. By ... Read More

A somber Christmas for Gaza’s Christians

obl- December 28, 2011

Ryan Jones 28/12/2011 The few remaining Christians in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip marked a very somber Christmas this year, reports The Guardian’s Pheobe Greenwood from ... Read More

Ateshian: French Resolution Freezes Turkish Armenian Relations

obl- December 28, 2011

27/12/2011 The acting Patriarch of Turkish Armenians Aram Ateshian has said that involvement of other thoughts would freeze Turkish-Armenian relations. Commenting on a resolution criminalizing ... Read More

Christmas tree missing in gloomy Athens

obl- December 28, 2011

People wait to be served food at a soup kitchen organised by the Greek Orthodox Church in Athens last week. Read More