Tag: AFP
CHINA SEE FIRST ORTHODOX PRIEST IN SIXTY YEARS
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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