Tag: News Agency
A Plea To Free Kidnapped Syrian Bishops
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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”
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