Tag: Assyrian International News Agency

Fayoum: Islamic extremists attack Coptic church, wounding pastor

OCP- February 17, 2013

17/2/13 A crowd, incited by a Salafi leader, attacked the church  of Saint Georgas. The Cross on the dome destroyed, part of the interior and ... Read More

Egypt’s New Constitution Gives Coptic Christians a Bleak and Unstable Future

OCP- December 24, 2012

24/12/12 Egyptians have approved a controversial new constitution. According to reports, Egyptians have endorsed the new charter in the two-stage referendum; the approved charter gives ... Read More

Sunni Rebels Occupying Churches, Homes of Syrian Christians

OCP- July 30, 2012

30/7/2012 www.worldnewstribune.com Assyrian International News Agency LONDON -- The Vatican has determined that Sunni rebels were targeting the Christian community in Syria. The Vatican has ... Read More

The Assyrian Genocide By Ottoman Turkey

OCP- July 30, 2012

By Hermiz Shahen Family World News Assyrian International News Agency Assyrians are the indigenous people of Iraq, Turkey, Iran, Syria and Lebanon. , who have ... Read More

A New Identity for Middle East Christians

OCP- July 19, 2012

By Phillip Smyth American Spectator Assyrian International News Agency 18/7/2012 The 20th century was a time in the Middle East when nominally secular dictators espousing ... Read More

Egyptian Church Threatens to Withdraw From Constituent Assembly Over Sharia Article

OCP- July 6, 2012

Assyrian International News Agency 6/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church threatened to withdraw its Constituent Assembly representatives Wednesday over concerns the new constitution will not represent ... Read More

German Parliament Resolution Supports Embattled Assyrian Monastery in Turkey

OCP- June 20, 2012

18/6/2012 Assyrian International News Agency Berlin -- The German parliament decides today, on Thursday evening, on an application introduced by the parliamentary groups of the ... Read More

The Difference Between Christians and Christians in Syria

OCP- June 7, 2012

Augin Kurt Haninke Assyrian International News Agency 6/6/2012 (AINA) -- It is well known that most Christians in Syria support Assad's regime because they fear ... Read More

Egypt Sentences 12 Coptic Christians to Life in Prison

OCP- May 23, 2012

Assyrian International News Agency 22/5/2012 On 21 May, Egypt's State Security Council sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims. The Christians ... Read More

90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria

OCP- March 26, 2012

26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role ... Read More

Christians’ Future in the Iraqi Kurdistan

OCP- March 23, 2012

23/3/2012 Abdulla Hawez Abdulla Assyrian International News Agency As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region's revolutions will be the empowerment of ... Read More

300 Muslim Lawyers Storm Egyptian Court, Prevent Lawyers for Christian From Entering

OCP- March 16, 2012

By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency 16/3/2012 (AINA) -- More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the southern Egyptian province ... Read More

20,000 Muslims Attempt to Kill Pastor and Torch Church in Egypt

OCP- February 15, 2012

By Mary Abdelmassih 15/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into ... Read More

Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles

OCP- February 13, 2012

13/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency The rapidly changing Middle East is witnessing convulsions which are indeed revolutionary when it comes to alliances. After all, in ... Read More

Egyptian Bishop Warns of Another Massacre in Nag Hammadi‎

OCP- January 3, 2012

By Mary Abdelmassih 31/12/2011 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- Bishop Kyrillos, the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Nag Hammadi, received last week several threats of ... Read More

Fears of ‘unchecked Islamic persecution’ in Iraq

OCP- October 31, 2011

31/10/2011 A year after the massacre at the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad left 58 dead, an Assyrian news agency is expressing concern about the ... Read More

Adiyaman Assyrian Priest – “One Cemetery is All We Have Left”

OCP- October 11, 2011

By Sabri Atman 10/10/2011 We are in the middle of July. Germany did not see the summer season this year. "When did it ever?" can ... Read More

Assyrian Language Heard Again At Ancient Tushhan

OCP- September 1, 2011

Assyrian International News Agency 9-1-2011 It has been over two millennia since the Assyrian language was last spoken at Ziyaret Tepe/Tushhan, but during a recent ... Read More