Tag: Asia News

Patriarch Sako: ‘In 10 Years There Will Only Be a Few Thousand Christians Left in Iraq’

OCP- April 29, 2014

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?

OCP- May 24, 2013

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

OCP- March 21, 2012

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

OCP- February 10, 2012

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

OCP- November 22, 2011

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

OCP- September 6, 2011

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