Tag: Lebanon
Lebanon Should Safeguard Its Specificity in the Middle East – Declared Aram I to the Lebanese Community in the UAE
9 December 2014. On Tuesday evening, His Holiness Aram I attended a special event organized by the Lebanese Embassy, where he met members of the ... Read More
Catholicos Aram I Visit Embassies of Armenia and Lebanon in Abu Dhabi
His Holiness Aram I Visits the Embassy of Armenia in Abu Dhabi 10 December 2014. On Wednesday, His Holiness Aram I and his delegation visited ... Read More
In Defense of Christians Meets Assyrian Church Leaders in Chicago
http://www.indefenseofchristians.org - November 2014 In Defense of Christians traveled last week to Chicago for meetings with religious leaders and activists from the city's Middle Eastern Christian ... Read More
Holiness Aram I Visits Iranian Officials
November 2014 25 – 26 October 2014. On Saturday and Sunday His Holiness Aram I, accompanied by the diocesan prelates and representatives of church councils, ... Read More
Patriarch John X : Athos is a prayer-rope for the entire world
Notes on Arab Orthodoxy - November 2014 "At night when human voices, movements and tumult are clothed in stillness, enlighten every movement of my soul with ... Read More
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Meets Suryoyo University Students in Lebanon
On October 25, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II met with the Suryoyo University Students in Lebanon. The meeting took place in the ... Read More
Eastern Churches Renew Calls to Prohibit Attacks on Christians
Daily Star, Lebanon - 9/9/14 Beirut -- Muslim religious authorities must issue religious edicts prohibiting attacks against Christians and other minorities regardless of circumstance, a ... Read More
ISIS Threatens Orthdox Church in Tripoli : Lebanese Army Responds
September 2014 From the Daily Star, here.See also their earlier article about anti-Christian graffiti in Tripoli here. Lebanese Army swiftly responds to Tripoli threats TRIPOLI, Lebanon: The ... Read More
His Holiness Aram I meets with the Heads of the Middle East Churches
August- September 2014 On Wednesday 27 August, the Heads of Middle East Churches met at the Maronite Patriarchate in Bkerke (Lebanon). His Holiness Aram I ... Read More
Middle East patriarchs meet diplomats : Call for wiping out terrorists
August 2014 BEIRUT (CNS) — Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs of the Middle East denounced attacks on Christians and called upon the international community to work ... Read More
Lebanese MPs & FM Meet With Assyrian Leaders
Lebanese MPs Meet With Assyrian Leaders in Beirut - August 2014 Beirut (AINA) -- In a show of solidarity with the Assyrian Christians of North ... Read More
The “Hodigitria Icon” of the Mother of God is Celebrated in Gethsemane Convent
August 2014 On Sunday, August 10, 2014, His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia officiated ... Read More
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II Receives the President of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in Lebanon
August 2014 On August 9, 2014, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem II received Mr. Assaad Hardan, President of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party in ... Read More
The Anglican Communion-Oriental Orthodox Dialogue International Commission Meets at the Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias (Lebanon)
On 6 August 2014, His Holiness Aram I met with the Officers of the Commission: Co-Presidents Archbishop Geoffrey Rowell and Metropolitan Bishoy, and Co-Secretaries Archbishop ... Read More
Iraqi Christians in Lebanon Tell of ISIL’s Brutal Rule
2-year-old Behnam Atallah sits on the floor of a small room in Jdeideh, where he lives with his parents and sisters after his family fled ... Read More
Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia announce new positions for Prelates
Armenian Orthodox Church in Lebanon-2/8/14 26 July 2014. On Friday, His Holiness Aram I announced the following new appointments: ... Read More
Iraqi Christians Find Little Help
By Rayane Abou Jaoude, Venetia Raineyl Daily Star, Lebanon - 28/7/14 BAABDA, Lebanon -- Joseph Toman leaned on the heavy wooden door of St. Raphael Chaldean ... Read More
Greek Orthodox Church Condemns Attacks on Christians in Mosul
Daily Star, Lebanon - 25/7/14 Beirut -- The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Wednesday condemned the attacks on Mosul's Christians, calling on states funding extremist organizations to ... Read More
In Lebanon a Mark of Solidarity With Mosul Christians
Daily Star, Lebanon - 22/7/14 BEIRUT -- The exodus of Christians from the jihadist-controlled city of Mosul has stirred controversy in Christian and Muslim communities alike ... Read More
Malnourished Syrian Refugee Children Bear the Toll of Conflict
Photo by Ryan Erickson 17/7/14 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — The parents of two-and-a-half year-old Mataab fled with the young boy and his six siblings from ... Read More
Fr Touma Bitar on the Situation in the Patriarchate of Jerusalem
Fr Touma Bitar 14/7/14 They cannot ask us to be their followers merely because they have inherited apostolic succession. We must follow the good and ... Read More