Tag: AFP

CHINA SEE FIRST ORTHODOX PRIEST IN SIXTY YEARS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 3, 2016

The China Post - May 2016 His red and gold vestments bathed in candlelight, the first mainland Chinese Orthodox priest ordained for six decades led an ... Read More

UN Envoy in Solidarity Visit to Syria’s Assyrians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 2, 2015

United Nations (UN) special envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura (R), stands next to priest Toma Asitivo Kaka during a visit to the Ibrahim-al Khalil ... Read More

Turkish Minority Stages Mass Rally in Istanbul

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- February 9, 2015

http://www.albawaba.com - 9/2/15 Thousands of members of a religious minority in Turkey gathered in the center of Istanbul Sunday, demanding human rights and the preservation of ... Read More

Turkey Permits First New Church in 90 Years

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- January 4, 2015

Prime Minister Davutolu hosts the religious leaders of the country (AA photo). January 2015 (AFP) -- Turkey's Islamic-rooted government has authorized the building of the ... Read More

Christians Hold Out in Syria’s Aleppo Despite Jihadist Threat

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 3, 2014

Syrian Christans look on during Divine Liturgy at the Greek Orthodox church in the Syrian government controlled area of Aleppo on November 16, 2014 (AFP). ... Read More

Christians Flee Iraq’s Mosul After Islamists Tell Them: Convert, Pay or Die

OCP- July 19, 2014

19/7/14 (AFP) -- Christians were fleeing Iraq's jihadist-held city of Mosul en masse on Friday after mosques relayed an ultimatum giving them a few hours ... Read More

Christians Face Disaster in Iraq: Patriarch Sako

OCP- April 27, 2014

Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako - Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon and Primate of the Assyrian Chaldean Catholic Church 27/4/14 Kirkuk (AFP) -- Iraq's dwindling Christian ... Read More

Syria Troops Retake Christian Town of Maalula

OCP- April 15, 2014

15/4/14 Beirut (AFP) -- Syrian regime troops retook the ancient Christian town of Maalula on Monday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad said the conflict ... Read More

Scores Killed and Scores Injured in Iraq Attacks

OCP- March 18, 2014

  18/3/14 Baghdad (AFP) -- Heavily-armed militants attacked the home of an anti-Qaeda militiaman north of Baghdad on Sunday, killing and decapitating his wife and ... Read More

Snaps from the Release of the Kidnapped Nuns of Maaloula – Updated

OCP- March 10, 2014

A convoy of Lebanese security vehicles transported the women to the Lebanese border One of thirteen released nuns speaks to the press upon their arrival ... Read More

Armenian monastery finds unlikely saviour in Arab sheikh

OCP- November 25, 2013

Sheikh Sultan III bin Mohammed Al-Qasimi Agence France-Presse - 25/11/13 Standing next to a newly refurbished bell tower, priest Aristakes Aivazyan says it needed divine ... Read More

Pope Leads Prayers for Syrian Peace

OCP- September 8, 2013

VOA News - 8/9/13 Pope Francis has led a prayer vigil for peace in Syria, a country ravaged by civil war and facing possible U.S. ... Read More

Details Emerge On Kidnapped Syrian Bishops

OCP- August 21, 2013

  Mohammad Ballout Translated from As-Safir (Lebanon) 21/8/13 Are the two bishops missing or martyred? What is Jesuit priest Paolo Dall’Oglio‘s relation to the matter? ... Read More

Egyptian military chief vows to rebuild Coptic Churches

OCP- August 17, 2013

17/8/13 The Egyptian defense minister has ordered the repair and reconstruction of  all churches that suffered damage in the country’s violent demonstrations since  the Egyptian ... Read More

‘Peaceful’ Brotherhood Protesters Torching Coptic Christian Churches

OCP- August 15, 2013

 Andrew C. McCarthy - 15/8/13 In the familiar pattern, the Western media are focused on the military raids against Islamic supremacists in Egypt but ignoring the ... Read More

Putin urges Ukraine to join forces with Russia

OCP- July 28, 2013

28/9/13 KIEV (AFP) - President Vladimir Putin on Saturday urged Ukraine to join forces with former fellow Soviet state Russia, saying Russians and Ukrainians were ... Read More

The last of the Armenians

OCP- June 22, 2013

The Armenian Church . Photo: Anisur Rahman 22/6/13 Once a flourishing community in Bengal, Armenians have dwindled in number to such an extent that only ... Read More

Cleric fights to save rural Romania from fracking

OCP- June 8, 2013

Vasile Laiu, the Christian Orthodox archpriest of Barlad, takes part in a protest against shale gas exploition next to a pancarte reading in Romanian "Romania ... Read More

Kidnap of Syrian bishops sparks global concern

OCP- April 24, 2013

23/4/13 DAMASCUS — The kidnapping of two Syrian bishops, reportedly by Chechen fighters, sparked international concern on Tuesday, as rebels battled regime and Hezbollah forces in ... Read More

Syrian bishops in hands of ‘Chechens’: church sources

OCP- April 24, 2013

Agence France-Presse - 23/4/13 The kidnappers of two Orthodox bishops seized in northern Syria are Chechen fighters, sources in the Syriac and Greek Orthodox dioceses ... Read More

Serbia buries 13 victims of shooting spree

OCP- April 13, 2013

FOCUS News Agency - 13/4/13 Velika Ivanca. Church bells rang out in the tiny Serbian village of Velika Ivanca on Friday, as hundreds of tearful mourners ... Read More