Tag: News Agency

A Plea To Free Kidnapped Syrian Bishops

OCP- April 22, 2014

By Wolfgang Danspeckgruber http://www.huffingtonpost.com - 22/4/14 It is now precisely a year, 365 days, since the kidnapping of the two Metropolitans of Aleppo, the Syriac-Orthodox Archbishop ... Read More

Homes of Christians Fleeing Iraq Seized By Gangs

OCP- April 22, 2014

http://www.worthynews.com - 22/4/14 Baghdad -- Gangs in Baghdad are seizing homes left vacant by Christian families who have been forced to flee from sectarian violence, according ... Read More

Coptic Christians and the Egyptian Presidency

OCP- April 21, 2014

Dina Ezzat http://english.ahram.org.eg - April 2014 Holding hands with her beautifully dressed 10-year-old granddaughter, Bahigua exited the Abbasiya Coptic Cathedral on Saturday evening around midnight, after ... Read More

Egyptian Copts Test Pilgrim Ban to Jerusalem

OCP- April 21, 2014

A Coptic Christian priest holds candles next to a picture of Egyptian Coptic Christian Pope Shenouda III in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in ... Read More

Turkey ‘Aided Islamist Fighters’ in Attack on Syrian Christian Town

OCP- April 15, 2014

A severely damaged house in the Armenian Christian town of Kasab (Photo: REUTERS). By Ruth Sherlock The Telegraph - 15/4/14 Turkey facilitated an attack carried out ... Read More

Syria Troops Retake Christian Town of Maalula

OCP- April 15, 2014

15/4/14 Beirut (AFP) -- Syrian regime troops retook the ancient Christian town of Maalula on Monday, a day after President Bashar al-Assad said the conflict ... Read More

Roman Catholic Convent, Maronite Village Latest Targets of Vandals in Israel

OCP- April 10, 2014

By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service - April 2014 JERSULALEM -- A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in ... Read More

Cardinal Emmanuel-Karim Delly, Retired Chaldean Patriarch, Dies At 86

OCP- April 10, 2014

http://www.catholicsentinel.org/ - 10/4/14 Memory Eternal VATICAN CITY  -- Pope Francis praised the dedication of the retired patriarch of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Cardinal Emmanuel-Karim Delly, 86, ... Read More

An Egyptian Jew’s Message to Threatened Middle East Christians

OCP- April 4, 2014

Bishop Aclimandos leads Coptic Christmas Eve Liturgy at the Virgin Mary church in Cairo, Egypt. Egypt's Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of ... Read More

Violence Against Christian Copts in Egypt Continues Despite Fall of Muslim Brotherhood

OCP- March 27, 2014

By Stoyan Zaimov Christian Post - 27/3/14 Violence in Egypt against Coptic Christians has continued despite the fall of former president Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim ... Read More

Five Assyrians Fleeing Syria Drown Off the Coast of Greece

OCP- March 24, 2014

By Nuri Kino - 24/3/14 (AINA) -- On Thursday, March 21 a newsflash arrived: Seven migrants, including two children, lost their lives on Tuesday when ... Read More

ISIL Crucifies a Young Man in Raqqa, Syria

OCP- March 24, 2014

24/3/14 - http://www.mesop.de Raqqa, Syria -- Members of the al-Qaeda splinter group of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) executed on Saturday a ... Read More

In Southern Iraq, Archeological Riches Rivaling Ur Await Discovery

OCP- March 7, 2014

By Adel Fakhir Rudaw - 7/3/14 BAGHDAD -- Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province is "a global museum of antiquities," dotted with hundreds of unexcavated ancient cities ... Read More

Assyrian MP Blasts US for Not Promoting Christianity At Schools, Praises Iran’s Freedom of Religion

OCP- March 4, 2014

3/4/14 - http://english.farsnews.com TEHRAN -- A senior Assyrian lawmaker blasted the US human rights report on Iran, saying the US whose officials claim to be ... Read More

Turkey’s EU Ministry Welcomes Decision on Assyrian Monastery

OCP- March 3, 2014

3/3/14 http://www.worldbulletin.net Turkey's Ministry of EU Affairs has welcomed the return of a piece of land to the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation, in Turkey's ... Read More

Syrian Girls Forced to Marry Muslim Militants

OCP- February 25, 2014

english.farsnews.com - 25/2/15 TEHRAN -- Radical militants in Syria's Raqqa and Aleppo have been forcing Syrian girls to marry them, by pressuring the families, a new ... Read More

European Christians Fighting With Syria Kurdish Factions

OCP- February 23, 2014

Kurdish female fighters of the Kurdish People's Protection Units are seen in training at a military camp in Hassakeh, Dec. 9, 2013 (photo by REUTERS/Rodi ... Read More

Christians Fight for Middle East Religious Freedom Watchdog

OCP- February 20, 2014

By Ryan Mauro Frontpage Magazine - 20/2/14 Global persecution of Christians, especially in the Muslim world, is one of the most overlooked human rights disasters of ... Read More

Iraq Move to Preserve Christian Heritage, Syriac Language

OCP- February 20, 2014

By Amal Sakr AL Monitor -  20/2/14 Over the past 11 years, the Christian population in Iraq has decreased by more than 75%. It started to ... Read More

The Future Of Egypt’s Copts

OCP- February 19, 2014

By Samuel Tadros - 19/2/14 http://www.eurasiareview.com The fall of the Mubarak regime in February 2011 unleashed a monumental and contagious wave of optimism. Images of ... Read More

Christian City in Syria Attacked By “Freedom Fighters”

OCP- February 13, 2014

By Brad Hoff http://www.globalresearch.ca 13/2/14 This past Thursday, February 6, monasteries and churches in the ancient Christian city of Saidnaya held special celebrations for the ... Read More