Tag: Middle East
Christian-Muslim Joint Conference in Lebanon to Discuss Christians in the Middle East
23/1/2012 (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - The conference will be attended by delegates from all over the world, including 50 leading Muslim and Christian religious ... Read More
Mahmoud Abbas receives Orthodox Award
Milena Faustova 21/1/2012 Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was awarded the prize of the International Fund for the Unity of the Orthodox Peoples ... Read More
“TURKEY SHOULD LOOK AT ITS OWN RECORD ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND DENIAL,” Said Aram I in his TV Interview
December 2011 On Friday 23 December 2011, during an interview with OTV, the Lebanese station, and the Yerkir Media, His Holiness Aram I criticized the ... Read More
Identity Among Middle East Christians
AYMENN JAWAD AL-TAMIMI 5/1/2012 Aymenn Jawad Al-Tamimi is a student at Brasenose College, Oxford University, and a Fellow at the Middle East Forum. His website ... Read More
Arab spring could threaten Christians, warns archbishop of Canterbury
Riazat Butt, religious affairs correspondent 13/12/2011 Rowan Williams says non-Muslim communities in Middle East want to know what uprisings will mean for them The archbishop ... Read More
Arab Spring inflicts chill on Mideast Christians
By: John Longhurst 12/10/2011 Will the Arab Spring lead to a Christian winter? That's the question being asked by a number of observers following successful ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill fears all Christians could leave Arab world
Moscow, December 2, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed concern over an upsurge of violence against Christian minorities in the ... Read More
Cyprus to host Middle East Council of Churches Meeting
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 28/11/2011 The Church of Cyprus will be hosting the 10th General Assembly of the Middle East Council of Churches, on November 29 and ... Read More
What’s to become of Mideast Christians?
By Henry Srebrnik 22/11/2011 The Arab awaking has been, at best, a mixed blessing for the Middle East’s Christian Arab minorities. The uprisings in Libya ... Read More
Middle East and Arab join Egypt’s Christians in prayer for peace
22/11/2011 Christians across the Middle East and Arab world united in prayer for Egypt earlier in the month. The 12-hour long night of prayer was ... Read More
Obama’s Muslim Advisers Block Middle Eastern Christians’ Access to the White House: Report
25/10/2011 Beirut Arab news agency al Nashra reported on Saturday November 22, that Dalia Mogahed has succeeded in canceling a meeting between the Maronite Patriarch ... Read More
In Egypt, Rockville man witnesses attack on Coptic Christians
Susan Singer-Bart, Staff Writer 26/10/2011 Post-revolution events worry county’s Middle Eastern activists. Harry Malek attended a church service in Cairo, Egypt, the morning of Oct. ... Read More
Magical thinking on a trek to the Middle East
By Tyrone Beason 25/10/2011 "I haven't come here as a pilgrim seeking salvation, but as an observer struggling to make sense of a country and ... Read More
‘THE MIDDLE EAST IS OSCILLATING BETWEEN FEAR AND HOPE, UNCERTAINTY AND PROMISE’ Stated Aram I
15/10/2011 At the University of California, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, ANTELIAS – On Saturday 15 October His Holiness Aram I spoke at the University of ... Read More
A miracle in Egypt
13 /10/2011 My Dear Friends, In the tradition of the Coptic Orthodox Church there was a story of a Muslim Caliph who challenged the Coptic ... Read More
Guide: Christians in the Middle East
11/10/2011 BBC The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and home to some of the world's most ancient Christian denominations. But Christian communities across ... Read More
Armenian community of U.S. awaiting Aram I Armenian community of U.S. awaiting Aram I Armenian community of U.S. awaiting Aram I Armenian community of U.S. awaiting Aram I Visit
4/10/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian community of the United States is awaiting the arrival of His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of ... Read More
Christians as ‘minorities’ in the Middle East?
By Michael Marten 27/9/2011 Many attempts to think about the population groupings in the contemporary Middle East, however that is defined, tend away from terms ... Read More
Heads of churches in Jerusalem want negotiated Palestinian State
By staff writers 16/9/2011 Church leaders in Jerusalem have said that they support a negotiated solution to the question of a Palestinian state in the ... Read More
Orthodox leaders smooth path to proposed Summit Meeting
12/9/2011 The patriarchs of three ancient Orthodox Christian churches met from 1-2 September in Istanbul to discuss the situation of Christian minorities in the Middle ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem
25/8/2011 On August 25, 2011, His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, received Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow ... Read More