Tag: Middle East
Bartholomew I: Peace in Syria and throughout the world
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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