Tag: CHRISTIAN

1500-YEAR-OLD CHRISTIAN MANUSCRIPT DISCOVERED AT MANCHESTER LIBRARY

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 24, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 18, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 13, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- September 10, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 30, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 3, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 3, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 3, 2014

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

OCP- July 16, 2014

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

OCP- July 13, 2014

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

OCP- June 30, 2014

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

OCP- June 16, 2014

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

OCP- June 16, 2014

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

OCP- June 9, 2014

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

OCP- May 10, 2014

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

OCP- May 4, 2014

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

OCP- April 27, 2014

  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

OCP- April 14, 2014

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

OCP- April 9, 2014

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

OCP- April 8, 2014

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

OCP- April 2, 2014

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