Tag: CHRISTIAN
1500-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN MANUSCRIPT DISCOVERED AT MANCHESTER LIBRARY
24/9/14 Staff members of the John Rylands Library of the University of Manchester have announced the discover of a Greek papyrus text written in the ... Read More
Hundreds Of Thousands Homeless In Flood-Ravaged Pakistan
September 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The race to reach dry land grows more urgent as massive flooding in Pakistan forces hundreds of thousands of ... Read More
CLARIFYING SENATOR CRUZ’S WALK AWAY FROM MIDDLE EASTERN CHRISTIAN SUMMIT
CONTACT: Joseph Cella, 703-286-9677 joseph@indefenseofchristians.org - September 2014 Washington – In Defense of Christians President Toufic Baaklini issued the following statement in response to the ... Read More
IOCC Conference Cultivates Service
10/9/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — When record rainfall drenched the Midwest in July and triggered massive flooding of communities across Minnesota and Iowa, teen volunteers ... Read More
Flood Recovery Efforts Continue In Serbia And Bosnia
30/8/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Vladan and his wife welcome the arrival of much needed building supplies to repair their flood damaged home in Grdica, ... Read More
IOCC Responds To Critical Needs of Families In Gaza : Urges Support
Two displaced Palestinian women find refuge in the courtyard of St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza City. The church is sheltering more than 700 ... Read More
IOCC Assists Syrian Families Seeking Refuge In Northern Iraq
August 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian refugee families wait patiently for their turn to receive emergency relief items from a distribution center in northern ... Read More
New School Removes Barrier To Learning For Uganda’s Children
One teacher provides instruction for 500 elementary students in this one-room, red-brick village school near the shores of Lake Victoria in Butembe, Uganda. There are ... Read More
Sudan bans construction of new churches
16/7/14 Sudan has prohibited the construction of any new church in the country which has been under an Islamic regime since 1989. The Sudanese Minister ... Read More
IOCC Mobilizes To Provide Urgent Relief For Families Caught In Gaza Conflict
13/07/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — In this past week, the most intense violence in nearly two years has claimed over 100 lives, including 23 children, ... Read More
IOCC Responds to Victims of Flood Ravaged Midwest
30/6/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Rivers across the Midwest are surging over their banks, flooding cities and sweeping away summer crops as they fail to ... Read More
Creating a Path Out of Poverty for India’s Forgotten Families
June 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The village of Annathur is home to 302 families and one of India's most marginalized communities. Many of the ... Read More
Bosnia’s Flood Survivors Face Slow and Difficult Recovery
16/6/14 - IOCC Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — When floodwaters from record breaking rainfall surged beyond the banks of the Bosna River last month, Šamac and ... Read More
Orthodox Christian Emergency Network Grows to 100 Members
June 2014 Chicago, IL (IOCC) — When seven people were killed and thirteen injured in a shooting rampage in Isla Vista, California, on May 23, ... Read More
Chicago Faith-Based Groups Join With IOCC To Deliver Books For Local Children
May 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joined by wide-eyed youngsters from some of the city's most impoverished Southside neighborhoods, religious leaders gathered at the Ray ... Read More
IOCC Responds to Victims of Tornadoes in the South
4/5/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The powerful spring storms that spawned a cluster of damaging tornadoes this past week have affected the lives of millions ... Read More
PASCHAL VISITS OF CHRISTIAN CHURCHES TO THE JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE
April 2014 On Bright Tuesday, the 9th/22nd of April 2014, the long since established Paschal visits of Christian Churches to the Patriarchate took place. ... Read More
IOCC Helping Restore Homes And Livelihoods For Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
April 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — For years, Orlando supported his wife and five children by selling a daily catch of tilapia and milkfish snared ... Read More
CHRISTIAN COUNCIL OF SWEDEN VISITS JERUSALEM PATRIARCHATE
April 2014 In the morning of Saturday the 16th/29th of March 2014, a delegation of thirty representatives of Sweden’s Christian Churches visited the Patriarchate. The ... Read More
IOCC Assists Displaced Syrians Fleeing Embattled Kessab
8/4/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Intense fighting this past week in Kessab, a predominantly Armenian Christian town in northwestern Syria, forced hundreds of families to ... Read More
IOCC Transforming Lives with Clean and Safe Water
April 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Access to clean and safe water can make the difference between sickness and health, poverty and self-sufficiency. Yet more ... Read More