Tag: Afghanistan

Taliban Takeover May Intensify Christian Persecution in Afghanistan

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 16, 2021

Mass held for U.S. military personnel at a forward operating base in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 16/8/21 Kabul - Afghanistan: ... Read More

Acts of Faith: Refugees Switch to Christianity to Avoid Deportation From Finland

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 30, 2017

CC0 Sputniknews - 30/7/17 When in Finland, do like the Finns do. This must be the logic of Muslim asylum seekers from Afghanistan, Iran and ... Read More

Confirmed: U.S. Chief Facilitator of Christian Persecution

OCP- January 21, 2014

  Sen. John McCain meets with “Syrian rebels,” many of whom are not Syrian, and one of which is a known kidnapper (L – Muhammad ... Read More

Former Taliban From Afghanistan Baptized at the Monastic Republic of Mount Athos

OCP- June 14, 2013

  13/6/13 Ahmed was born and raised in a village in Afghanistan in the middle of war. His childhood memories are dust, poverty, and compulsory ... Read More

Syria’s future lies in ruins

OCP- October 20, 2012

William Dalrymple The Gurdian 18/10/2012 To mourn Syria's devastated archaeological and architectural heritage may seem trivial. Yet with it die precious traditions. Few forms of ... Read More

St. Vladimir’s Seminary Pres’s Children’s Book Receives Gold Medal

OCP- October 11, 2012

11/10/2012 SVS Press Purchase a copy of the book here: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (SVS Press)— the publishing arm of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary ... Read More

Fatal lot of Christianity’s homelands

OCP- August 9, 2012

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The Australian 9/8/2012 WHEREVER you go in the Middle East today, you see the Arab Spring rapidly turning into the Christian winter. The ... Read More

Chaplain Cwiklinski ministering in Afghanistan

OCP- August 8, 2012

SYOSSET, NY 8/8/2012 Father Jerome Cwiklinski, CPT CHC USN, a priest of the Orthodox Church in America, is currently ministering in Afghanistan, where he is ... Read More

SOME AFGHAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY

OCP- April 5, 2012

Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News 3/4/2012 Afghanistan, a country suffering from longstanding civil wars, has not seen the face of peace for a long ... Read More

The World’s Worst Religious Persecutors – OpEd

OCP- March 21, 2012

By Nina Shea 20/3/2012 Today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf) released its 14th annual report, which it is mandated to do under ... Read More

Christians fear losing freedoms in Arab Spring movement

OCP- February 1, 2012

By Oren Dorell and Sarah Lynch, USA TODAY 1/2/2012 CAIRO – From her home in a labyrinth of stonewalled alleyways, Samia Ramsis holds a key ... Read More

Orthodox Christian Navy SEAL killed in Afghanistan to be laid to rest in Minnesota

OCP- August 21, 2011

18/8/2011 ST. PAUL, MN A visitation for Chief Petty Offier John Weston Faas, 31, one of 22 Navy SEALs killed with eight other US troops ... Read More

KYIV. Chair of the Committee of the Families of soldiers killed in Afghanistan Alla Shipova was awarded the Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

OCP- August 18, 2011

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On August 14, the day of Procession of the Precious Wood of the Life-Giving Cross, Vicar of the Kyiv Metropolis Bishop Theodosius ... Read More

Alexander the Great: Impressions Of The Community And 2011 Zoullas Lecture – Next Edition!

OCP- August 17, 2011

By Catherine Tsounis 17/8/2011 “There is and will be only one Alexander the Great in history,” said my late father, George, a WWII decorated POW. ... Read More

Bishop George in Afghanistan

OCP- January 2, 2011

Polish Orthodox Church On 22-23 December Orthodox Military Ordinary Bishop Jerzy (Pankowski) accompanied by Minister of National Defence Bogdan Klich took part in Christmas meeting ... Read More

Consecration of Armenian Chapel in Afghanistan

OCP- August 2, 2010

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On July 24, with the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Grace ... Read More

Consecration of Armenian Chapel in Afghanistan

OCP- July 26, 2010

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On July 24, with the blessing of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, His Grace ... Read More