Tag: Middle East
Christianity in Peril in Turkish Cyprus
Michael Curtis -July 2013 Violence against Christians has become all too frequent in recent years, with attacks on them in a wide variety of countries in ... Read More
Christians Set Aside Differences as ‘Arab Spring’ Presents Uncertain Future
John Burger - 4/7/13 Threats of radical Islam to Christians the Arab world put old Christian disputes in perspective. While full communion between the Catholic and ... Read More
Christopher Dekki: A (very) rough guide to the Christians of the Levant
Christopher Dekki 10/6/13 "I challenge you to let this be the first step to understanding the depth of the Middle East’s diversity" Growing up in ... Read More
Pope to Syrian Christians: you have ‘great task’ of remaining
Noujad (far right) lost her husband to the violence in Syria, and her son is still missing. Credit: Bill Lyons for CRS. Used with permission. ... Read More
We cannot abandon Syrian Christians
Jim Wallace - 31/5/13 Allies of al-Qaeda are purging the areas they control of "infidels". Why is the West ignoring this tragedy? The hardest test ... Read More
West must act decisively to protect Syria’s persecuted Christians
27/5/13 JIM WALLACE From: The Australian THE hardest test of foreign policy is not its intersections at the lofty geopolitical level but where it inevitably ... Read More
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Aleppo prays for Orthodox bishops kidnapped a month ago
22/5/13 Bishop Audo, Chaldean Archbishop of Aleppo, speaks of the pain of the Syrian Christian community. For a month the population has been waiting for ... Read More
Christian Persecution is Motivating Muslims ‘To Know Christ’
By Janet Parshall , Special to CP 17/5/13 With all of the unrest being reported in countries like Egypt, Syria and Libya, perhaps the real ... Read More
Jerusalem’s dwindling Christians celebrate the Holy Fire on Orthodox Easter
5/5/13 The annual rite at the 1500-year-old Church of the Holy Sepulcher attracted fewer local faithful as Christians across the region are caught up in ... Read More
Death to Churches Under Islam: A Study of the Coptic Church
1/5/13 Raymond Ibrahim Christians throughout the Islamic world are under attack. Unlike Muslim attacks on Christians, which are regularly confused with a myriad of social ... Read More
For Arab Orthodox church, Middle East turbulence hits home
29/4/13 MONTREAL- News that two bishops were kidnapped in Syria has shaken Montreal’s Arab Orthodox Christians. “Today I asked for the people when they made ... Read More
Syria: Old Franciscan church destroyed
20/4/13 A violent explosion destroyed the church and convent of the Capuchin Franciscan Friars in Deir Ezzor, in Mesopotamia on 15 April, Fides reports. Fr ... Read More
Egyptian Christians losing sense of home
Charles M. Sennott 1/4/13 This is the third in a series of posts about dwindling Christian communities in the Middle East. CAIRO — Down the ... Read More
Palestinian Christians Face
Lena Odgaard for Al-Monitor Palestine Pulse- 30/3/13 Thousands of Christians from across the globe are flocking to Jerusalem to follow the footsteps of Jesus during ... Read More
Religious summit to unite Middle East’s Christians
The Daily Star 8/3/13 BEIRUT: A religious summit between Catholic and Orthodox patriarchs of the Middle East will take place in the next few months, Maronite Patriarch Beshara ... Read More
Expectations of the new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem
13/2/13 In the second of two broadcasts, international lawyer and ecumenical consultant Dr Harry Hagopian, who is also an Ekklesia associate, talks about the newly ... Read More
Armenian church supports two-state solution in Palestine
Archbishop Aykazian is a member of Pres. Obama's inter-religious affairs advisory task force. Arthur Hagopian - 2/2/13 Jerusalem - Leading figures among the Armenian and Greek ... Read More
US religious leaders seek two-state solution for Palestine and Israel
Arthur Hagopian - 27/1/13 Leading figures among the Armenian and Greek Orthodox churches in the US have joined other leaders of Christian, Muslim and Jewish ... Read More
Benedict XVI meets with Oriental Orthodox Church leaders
27/1/13 January 25, 2012. (Romereports.com) Benedict XVI received the leaders from several Oriental Orthodox Churches on the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian ... Read More
A new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem: what does it mean?
25/1/13 As many church leaders, organisations and individuals have learnt already, Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian was elected earlier today (24 January 2013) as the 97th patriarch ... Read More
Iraqi Kurdistan: A Safe Haven for Christians?
21/1/13 Alan Wisdom www.theird.com Iraq's Christian population has been the target of violence for several years. The Christian community in Iraq has suffered great ... Read More