Tag: AINA

Turkish Genocide Scholar Visits Assyrian, Armenian Genocide Memorials in Yerevan

OCP- April 25, 2014

Assyrians at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia. The Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia. Assyrians at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia. ... Read More

99 Years of Turkish Genocide

OCP- April 24, 2014

In this 1919 photo released by the Armenian National Archives shows victims of the "Great Slaughter" in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The sign ... Read More

Al-Qa’ida Desecrates Church in Syria

OCP- October 30, 2013

30/10/13 Tel Abyaḍ, Syria (AINA) -- Recently in the town of Tel Abyaḍ, where there is a small Christian community, the Islamic State of Iraq ... Read More

Syrian Jihadist Rebels Murder Assyrian Man for Being Christian

OCP- September 28, 2013

28/9/13 Al-Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- A 26 year-old Assyrian man, Ninar Odisho, was murdered on Saturday, September 21, in the afternoon in the city of ... Read More

Syriac Orthodox Monastery in Turkey suffers attacks

OCP- August 14, 2013

14/8/13 Members of the staff of a Syrian Orthodox monastery were attacked on August 11 in Midyat, a city of 60,000 in southeastern Turkey, the ... Read More

Assyrian Businesses, Church Attacked in Baghdad, 2 Killed

OCP- June 27, 2013

27/6/13 Baghdad (AINA) -- A series of attacks against Assyrian establishments in the last three days has shaken the Assyrian community of Iraq. Four Assyrian ... Read More

Syrian Orthodox Archbishop Speaks on the Situation of Christians in Syria

OCP- May 22, 2013

22/5/13 Abdulmesih BarAbraham Munich (AINA) -- On Saturday, May 18, Eustatius Matta Roham, the Archbishop of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch for Northern Syria, ... Read More

Egypt: Copts protest church attack

OCP- February 22, 2013

22/2/13 Hundreds of Copts rallied on Sunday evening February 17 against the torching of St Georges church in Sarsena on February 15, as well as ... Read More

Turkey’s Ugly Trap for Assyrians

OCP- January 18, 2013

 Assyrian International News Agency - 18/1/13 Stockholm (AINA) -- Turkey's permission to allow the Syrian Orthodox community to build a church in Istanbul after 90 ... Read More

3,000 attack Egyptian Christians over rumored cell phone picture

OCP- January 30, 2012

Timothy Whiteman 30/1/2012 The Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) is reporting that a riotous mob consisting of extremist Muslim Salafists and members of the Muslim ... Read More

Muslims in Egypt Burn Christian Homes and Shops, Attack Church

OCP- January 21, 2012

By Mary Abdelmassih AINA NEWS 20/1/2012 (AINA) -- A Muslim mob attacked Copts today in the Upper Egyptian village of Rahmaniya-Kebly, Nag Hammadi, Qena province, ... Read More

Coptic Christians Protect Monastery From Egyptian Army Assault

OCP- October 29, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 29/10/2011 AINA (AINA) -- Hundreds of Coptic Christians mobilized on Tuesday in front of the Monastery of the Virgin and St. John ... Read More

Egyptian Muslim Ring Uses Sexual Coercion to Convert Christian Girls: Report

OCP- July 13, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 7-13-2011 AINA (AINA) -- The number of Christian girls abducted and coerced into converting to Islam since the Egyptian "January 25 Revolution" ... Read More

Egypt Court Dismisses Claims that Christians Kidnapped Islamic Convert

OCP- July 1, 2011

By Daniel Blake | Christian Post Contributor 1/7/2011 An Egyptian court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Muslims requesting the disclosure of the wife of ... Read More

Tensions Rise in Egypt Over Two Missing Christian Girls

OCP- June 27, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 6-26-2011 (AINA) -- Tension is escalating over the case of 14-year-old Nancy Magdy Fathy, and her 16-year old cousin Christine Ezzat Fathy, ... Read More

Egyptian Coptic Youth Protect Cathedral During Pope’s Sermon

OCP- May 9, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 5-7-2011 (AINA) -- Egyptian police and armed forces were heavily deployed around St, Mark's Cathedral in Cairo yesterday as Coptic Pope Shenouda ... Read More

Muslims Protest At Church in Cairo

OCP- April 30, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 4-30-2011 (AINA) -- Thousands of Muslim demonstrators gathered in front St. Mark's Cathedral in Cairo, vowing not to leave until they know ... Read More

Three Churches Attacked, Egyptian Military Sides With Radical Muslims

OCP- April 9, 2011

By Mary Abdelmassih 9/4/2011 (AINA) -- In the last two weeks three attacks on churches were undertaken by Salafis or Islamic Fundamentalists in Egypt. The ... Read More

Coptic Christians in Egypt Continue Protests

OCP- March 11, 2011

Jennifer LeClaire 11/3/2011 CNN is reporting that thousands of Christian Copts in Cairo are protesting outside the offices of an Egyptian broadcaster. Indeed, thousands of ... Read More

Egyptian Security Used Live Ammunition on Christian Coptic Protesters, 4 Killed

OCP- December 1, 2010

30/11/2010 Cairo: November 30, 2010. (By Mary Abdelmassih AINA) -- Christian Copts worldwide were shocked and enraged at the use of live ammunition by Egyptian ... Read More

Egyptian Copts Rally in Support of Church

OCP- June 13, 2010

By: Mary Abdelmassih 11/6/2010 Cairo (AINA) — Thousands of Christian Copts from all over Egypt rallied on Wednesday within the grounds of St. Mark Cathedral ... Read More