Tag: CHRISTIAN

Community Kitchen Addresses Malnutrition

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Swirls of fragrant steam billow above large steel cauldrons as five middle-aged women stir thick, bubbling yellow lentil soup ... Read More

Building Resilient Communities in the Balkans

OCP- March 18, 2014

March 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Fifteen years after NATO bombings and many ensuing conflicts in Kosovo, poverty and isolation continue to be a challenge ... Read More

Syria’s Healthcare System Latest War Casualty

OCP- February 27, 2014

27/2/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Heavy fighting in Syria's embattled Idlib province forced Khaled, 5, and his family to flee their home and settle in ... Read More

IOCC Assists in Evacuation of Syrians Fleeing Homs

OCP- February 27, 2014

February 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Syrian civilians evacuated from the embattled city of Homs under a UN-negotiated cease-fire are being aided by International Orthodox ... Read More

Healing The Hidden Wounds Of War In Syria

OCP- January 23, 2014

January - 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Joumana will never forget the day she, her husband and two children abandoned their home in the war-torn ... Read More

IOCC Delivers Winter Relief To Greece’s Most Vulnerable

OCP- January 14, 2014

January 2014 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — As snow and nighttime temperatures fall in portions of Greece, the country's most vulnerable – the elderly, people with ... Read More

IOCC Responds To Victims

OCP- November 13, 2013

13/11/13 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Just four days after the most powerful tropical storm ever to make landfall blasted across the Philippines with wind speeds ... Read More

ERDOGAN CALLS CHRISTIAN BYZANTIUM “A DARK CHAPTER” IN HISTORY

OCP- June 1, 2013

31/5/13 The prime minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the time of Christian emperors in Byzantium "a dark chapter" in history. In Erdogan's ... Read More

ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION BOOK DONATION TO CHICAGO AREA SCHOOL CHILDREN

OCP- March 20, 2013

Maria A. Karamitsos - 20/3/13 Baltimore, Md. (IOCC) – International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) announced today its support for after school enrichment opportunities, mentoring and summer ... Read More

PRAYER FOR UNITY AND PRACTICAL COOPERATION AMONG THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

OCP- January 20, 2013

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Every year, on the third week of January (18 – 25 January), the Christian Churches from ... Read More

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I RECEIVES HEADS OF CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE GULF COUNTRIES

OCP- November 23, 2012

On Friday 16 November 2012, the Heads of 22 Christian communities, established in the countries of the Gulf region, visited His Holiness Aram I. Bishop ... Read More

COPTIC POPE WARNS OF CHRISTIAN PULLOUT FROM GOVERNMENT

OCP- November 15, 2012

MICHAEL CARL 15/11/2012 Newly selected Egyptian Coptic Pope Tawadros II is warning that he will pull the Christian delegates from the Egyptian Constituent Assembly if a religious ... Read More

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I APPEALS FOR HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE AND CALLS FOR CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM CO-EXISTENCE

OCP- August 8, 2012

7/8/2012 His Holiness Aram I the Spiritual Head of the Armenian Orthodox Church, Catholicosate of Cilicia and a President of the Middle East Council of ... Read More

“CHRISTIAN UNITY IS AN IMPERATIVE FOR THE CHURCHES IN THE MIDDLE EAST” His Holiness Aram I

OCP- June 15, 2012

15/6/2012 Opening Session -Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches In his opening speech, His Holiness Aram I stressed the importance of visible ... Read More

SYRIA OPPOSITION TARGETS CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY: Christians Expelled from Homs by “Opposition” Al Qaeda Gunmen

OCP- March 19, 2012

Global Research 19/3/2012 Al-Haqiqa (translated fromm Arabic) Armed men from the Faruq Brigade have succeeded in expelling most of the Christians of Homs and have ... Read More

“THE CHRISTIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE ARAB WORLD MUST ENGAGE IN DIALOGUE WITH ALL TRENDS OF ISLAM WHICH ADVOCATE DEMOCRACY, COEXISTENCE AND NON-VIOLENCE” H. H. ARAM I

OCP- January 25, 2012

25/1/2012 In his opening remarks to the international conference on "The Christian Presence and Witness in the Arab World", taking place at the headquarters of ... Read More

PRAYER FOR UNITY AND PRACTICAL CO-OPERATION AMONG THE CHRISTIAN CHURCHES

OCP- January 17, 2012

17/1/2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Every year, on the third week of January (18 – 25 January), the Christian Churches ... Read More

‘COMMON VALUES SHOULD BE THE CORE OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM CONVIVIALITY’ SAID ARAM I TO MUSLIM CLERICS

OCP- January 11, 2012

01/09/2012 On Monday 9 January 2012, a delegation composed of Sunni and Shi’a clerics visited His Holiness Aram I. The visit lasted for more than ... Read More

EXISTENTIAL DIALOGUE BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS IN THE MIDDLE EAST IS AN IMPORTANT ASPECT OF CHRISTIAN WITNESS

OCP- April 5, 2011

03/31/2011 On 31 March 2011, a group of German theologians met with His Holiness Aram I. During their conversation, the Catholicos said that Islam and ... Read More