Tag: Middle East

Bartholomew I: Peace in Syria and throughout the world

OCP- August 18, 2012

NAT da Polis 17/8/2012 The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople is concerned about the situation in the country and the fate of the Syrian Christian community. ... Read More

Fatal lot of Christianity’s homelands

OCP- August 9, 2012

WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The Australian 9/8/2012 WHEREVER you go in the Middle East today, you see the Arab Spring rapidly turning into the Christian winter. The ... Read More

Clinton scolds Egypt over violence against Copts

OCP- August 2, 2012

By Jo Biddle - WASHINGTON Middle East Online 2/8/2012 US report warns against growing xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim sentiment, intolerance in Europe. The United States warned ... Read More

Flight of Christians from Mid-East Reaches Syria

OCP- July 26, 2012

Aidan Clay 24/7/2012 "Christians are being ethnically cleansed throughout the Middle East." — Ken Blackwell, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. A mass exodus of Christians, ... Read More

The illusion of American support for Copts in Egypt

OCP- July 23, 2012

Said Shehata 23/7/2012 In international affairs, interests not ethics are paramount. So Egypt's Copts should know they can only attain equal citizenship in their country ... Read More

A New Identity for Middle East Christians

OCP- July 19, 2012

By Phillip Smyth American Spectator Assyrian International News Agency 18/7/2012 The 20th century was a time in the Middle East when nominally secular dictators espousing ... Read More

HIS HOLINESS ARAM I HONORS BENEFACTOR PUZANT KEVORKIAN

OCP- June 4, 2012

1/6/2012 On Friday 1 June 2012, the Board of Azounieh Hospital inaugurated the new Hall and the annexes to the Main Building. On this occasion ... Read More

Attempts To Revive Language Spoken in Jesus’ Time

OCP- May 30, 2012

By Diaa Hadid 29/5/2012 Centuries after it disappeared from the Middle East, efforts are being made to revive the ancient Aramaic language many believe Jesus ... Read More

Why we all should defend Christianity in the Middle East?

OCP- April 3, 2012

By Dr Amer Al Sabaileh 3/4/2012 Although not a Christian myself, I feel that no one can doubt the important role of the “Christians of ... Read More

Galata school returns to Patriarchate, Bartholomew I demands legal recognition

OCP- April 3, 2012

NAT da Polis 1/4/2012 The school is located in Istanbul's historic neighbourhood of Pera, once inhabited by the city's Christians. The ecumenical patriarch wants the ... Read More

Orthodox Primates Stress Need for Peace and Stability in Middle East

OCP- March 30, 2012

30/3/2012 On the invitation of His Beatitude Archbishop of Cyprus Chrysostomos II, and in the framework of the pastoral care of the Senior Patriarchates of ... Read More

The Plight Of Egypt’s Coptic Christians

OCP- March 30, 2012

29/3/2012 A Question Of Faith – Religion In The Modern World is a weekly column by Wolff Bachner about the quest for religious identity and ... Read More

America and the plight of Christians in the Middle East: mistake or evil intention?

OCP- March 28, 2012

Babich Dmitry 28/3/2012 What has happened to the religious freedoms in the Middle East 10 years after US president George W. Bush embarked on his ... Read More

The future looks bleak for Middle East Christians

OCP- March 23, 2012

By Ben Cohen 22/3/2012 Not every Christian community in the Middle East lives with the scale of terror currently in Sudan, itbut is legitimate to ... Read More

World pays tribute to Pope Shenouda

OCP- March 23, 2012

Gerald Butt Middle East Correspondent 22/3/2012 MEMBERS of the ruling military council and cabinet ministers from Egypt, as well as Christian and Muslim representatives from ... Read More

Patriarch Kirill receives delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem

OCP- March 16, 2012

14.03.2012 On March 14, 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with a delegation of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem at the ... Read More

Reflections on Christians in the Middle East

OCP- March 14, 2012

14/3/2012 On 8th March 2012, as one of their Lenten speakers, the chaplaincy of Morden College, Blackheath, invited Abba Seraphim to reflect on the current ... Read More

Historian: Israel safest place in Mideast for Christians

OCP- March 13, 2012

Ryan Jones 13/3/2012 The steep drop in the number of Christians living in the Palestinian Authority-controlled territories is often blamed on Israel. But Middle East ... Read More

Israel and the Plight of Mideast Christians

OCP- March 10, 2012

9/3/2012 The church in Bethlehem had survived more than 1,000 years, through wars and conquests, but its future now seemed in jeopardy. Spray-painted all over ... Read More

Turkish FM visits Ecumenical Patriarch

OCP- March 4, 2012

4/3/2012 Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu paid a visit to the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Istanbul and met Patriarch Vartholomaios on Saturday. This was ... Read More

State of Fear: Syria’s Christians Face the Specter of Civil War and Sectarian Violence

OCP- February 4, 2012

By Kurt J. Werthmuller 3/2/2012 Will the endangered Christian communities of the Middle East survive? Editor's Note: This is a part of a multi-part series ... Read More