Tag: Associated Press
GERMAN COURT CONVICTS 7 OF FINANCING JIHAD WITH STOLEN CHURCH FUNDS
Photo: http://blogs.reuters.com/ Pravoslavie.ru - 2/2/17 Judges in Cologne, Germany have ruled that there is satisfactory proof that seven men broke into up to five churches ... Read More
Church Roof Collapse Leaves 160 Dead in Nigeria
© Photo: PDP Akwa Ibom State twitter Sputniknews -13/12/16 At least 160 people have died after a church roof collapsed during a service in Uyo, ... Read More
Purged By ISIS, Iraq’s Christians Appeal to World for Help
Fox News - 25/7/14 Iraqi Christians are begging for help from the civilized world after Mosul, the northern city where they have lived and worshiped for ... Read More
Ringing the bells in Bethlehem, to keep those old Christmas traditions alive
Khadir Jaraiseh, 22, pulls the ropes of four bells in a short tower of the Church of the Nativity, for prayer services of the Armenian ... Read More
Iraq bomb attacks kill 37 on Christmas Day
The Associated Press - 26/12/13 Militants in Iraq targeted Christians in two separate bomb attacks in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 37 people, officials ... Read More
Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity undergoes biggest repair in 600 years
By Daniela Berretta, The Associated Press - 14/12/13 BETHLEHEM, Palestine - As visitors descend upon Bethlehem this holiday season, they will notice a different look ... Read More
State funeral for Cyprus’ ex-president Clerides
MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS - Associated Press (AP) 20/11/13 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Amid applause and shouts of respect, Cyprus's former President Glafcos Clerides was laid to ... Read More
Largest haul of repatriated church icons, mosaics returned to Cyprus after nearly 4 decades
A Christian Orthodox priest looks at returned looted icons at the Byzantine Museum in capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. The largest haul of ... Read More
Beleagured Syrian Christians fear fall of Assad
People sing at a service in an Armenian Orthodox church in Damascus. Christians think they are being targeted in Syria's growing civil war Dusan Stojanovic ... Read More
Amid Syria’s civil war, a 40-foot statue of Jesus rises on mountain top between front lines
By Associated Press - 3/11/13 BEIRUT — In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up ... Read More
Syrian troops retake Christian town north of Damascus after pushing out al-Qaida-linked rebels
Associated Press - 28/10/2013 DAMASCUS, SYRIA – Syria's state media say government forces have retaken a Christian town north of Damascus after a week of ... Read More
Al-Qaida-linked rebels battle army for control of Syrian Christian town
Associated Press - 22/10/13 BEIRUT — Syrian government forces battled Tuesday with al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to capture an ancient Christian town north of ... Read More
Amid new attacks, Egypt’s Copts preserve heritage
In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2013 photo, Father Boutros gives the homily to his parishioners at a church burnt by radical Islamists on Aug. ... Read More
Attack on Jerusalem graves unnerves Christians
The Associated Press - 14/10/13 Christian leaders in Israel are up in arms over what they say is a string of relentless attacks on church ... Read More
Vandals damage graves in Jerusalem, in latest attack against Christians
Associated Press- 9/10/13 JERUSALEM — Christian leaders in Israel are up in arms over what they say is a string of relentless attacks on church ... Read More
Police: treasure hunters attack Greek monastery
The Associated Press 31/8/13 Police have arrested three armed men who allegedly broke into a Greek monastery, tied up monks and planned to search for ... Read More
Gunmen Kill 11 Near Syrian Christian Villages
By ALBERT AJI and BASSEM MROUE, Associated Press - August 2013 Gunmen shot dead 11 people, mostly Christians, near a town in central Syria on ... Read More
Greek monks hurl petrol bombs at bailiffs
COSTAS KANTOURIS Associated Press- 31/7/13 THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — A group of monks on Greece's monastic sanctuary of Mount Athos who are facing eviction attacked ... Read More
Second Christian in a week murdered in Sinai
The Greek Orthodox Monastery of St. Catherine in the Sinai peninsula. (photo credit: AP file photo/Enric Marti) 11/7/13 Authorities say Islamist militants killed and decapitated ... Read More
Suicide blast in Christian neighborhood in Syria kills 4
Associated Press - 27/6/13 DAMASCUS, Syria – A suicide attacker blew himself up near one of the main churches in the Syrian capital Thursday, killing ... Read More
Syriac Christians, Kurds Boost Cooperation in Syria
A Kurdish fighter from the Popular Protection Units (YPG) holds his weapon as he takes position atop a building with a YPG flag in ... Read More