Tag: Human Rights Watch

OCP Executive Council Petitions Patriarch Kirill on the Persecution of Christians in Ethiopia

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 18, 2019

OCP News Service - 18/11/2019 Global: Apart from petitioning the United Nations, and several Human Rights organizations and political leaders like Vladimir Putin, the Executive ... Read More

Patriarch Abune Mathias Thanks Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE, Orthodox Churches, and the Roman Catholic Church

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 7, 2019

Pic- EOTC TV Menetasnot Desta – (Chief Administrator – OCP Amharic Service) - OCP News Service - 7/11/2019 Addis Ababa- Ethiopia: Patriarch Abune Mathias (Co-Patriarch ... Read More

OCP Secretariat Petitions President of Russia On The Ongoing Persecution of Christians in Ethiopia (Updated)

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 1, 2019

OCP News Service - 1/11/2019 Global: Apart from petitioning the United Nations, and several Human Rights organizations, the Secretariat of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE (Pan-Orthodox ... Read More

OCP Secretariat Sent Reports on the Persecution of Christians in Ethiopia to OHCHR and Human Rights Organizations (Updated)

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 28, 2019

OCP News Service - 28/10/2019 Global: The Secretariat of the Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE (Pan-Orthodox Christian  Society) sent reports on the ongoing persecution of Christians in ... Read More

Churches in Southern Egypt to Curtail Easter Celebrations After Deadly Bombings

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- April 13, 2017

© REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany Sputniknews - 13/4/17 Several Egyptian churches in the southern city of Minya said on Tuesday that they will cut ... Read More

World Conference in Erbil on Future of Iraqi Yezidis and Christians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- February 9, 2015

An elderly Christian woman, made homeless by ISIS attacks on the minority in Iraq, sits with her belongings in the Kurdistan Region. By Pishtiwan Jamal ... Read More

Syrian rebels destroy Shi’ite site, loot churches: HRW

OCP- January 25, 2013

Alexander Dziadosz | Reuters - 25/1/13 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels in Syria have burned and looted the religious sites of minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, ... Read More

New media cracks Eritrea’s iron curtain

OCP- December 17, 2012

Martin Plaut - 17/12/12 Isolated in exile, young Eritreans have developed new forms of resistance. Young Eritreans, who have fled abroad to escape their government’s stifling ... Read More

Syria: Church protests over ‘ethnic cleansing’ of Christians from Homs

OCP- March 23, 2012

21/3/2012 While the Syrian opposition forces have been guilty of violence, abuse and torture - as stated in a report released yesterday by the NGO ... Read More

Ethiopian Christians to be deported from Saudi Arabia

OCP- February 2, 2012

1/2/2012 Some 35 Ethiopian Christians face deportation from Saudi Arabia for "illicit mingling", the global rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Police arrested the ... Read More