Tag: Asia News
Patriarch Sako: ‘In 10 Years There Will Only Be a Few Thousand Christians Left in Iraq’
Asia News - 29/4/14 Baghdad -- The Iraqi Chaldean Patriarch, Louis Raphael Sako I, says he is seriously concerned over the continuing decline of Christian presence ... Read More
Where is President Obama as Egypt’s Coptic Christians Die and Churches Burn?
Michael Terheyden 5/24/2013 Catholic Online (www.catholic.org) Last week, hundreds of Coptic Christians in Egypt stood up to a mob of 20 thousand Muslims. They risked ... Read More
Series of attacks in Iraq, dozens of dead. Church of St Mathew in Baghdad targeted
21/3/2012 Asia News A bomb exploded near the Syrian-Orthodox church in the capital, killing two guards and wounding five others. Across the country there were ... Read More
62 Coptic Christian Families Forcibly Evicted by Salafi Muslims
By Asia News 10/2/2012 Salafi Muslims in the area of el-Amerya, with the complicity of the police and state authorities, set fire to Christian homes ... Read More
50 Thousand Orthodox Christians Venerate Holy Belt of the Virgin in Moscow
By Nina Achmatova 11/22/2011 Asia News The relic, one of the most venerated in the Orthodox world, ends its tour of Russia at the Cathedral ... Read More
Turkey: A “satisfied” Bartholomew I hopes for the reopening of the Halki School
By Asia News 5/9/2011 For the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, the return of properties seized by the Turkish government is an act of justice and ... Read More