Tag: News Agency
Directive From History Drives Discrimination Against Christians in the Middle East
Heritage Daily - 2/4/14 Christian's worshipers in parts of the Middle East, especially Syria are experiencing discrimination driven by a directive issued over 1300 years ago. ... Read More
The War on Christians in the Middle East
Michael Coren catholicworldreport- 31/1/14 In the summer of 2012, I interviewed an Evangelical minister and activist on my television show in Canada. I've hosted this nightly ... Read More
Will a Province for Assyrians Stop Their Exodus From Iraq?
Sargon Slewa By Peter BetBasoo and Nuri Kino - 28/1/14(AINA) -- On January 21 the Iraq Council of Ministers approved a plan to establish three ... Read More
Syria’s Assyrian Christians Find Refuge With Turkish Neighbours
By Jane Burgess http://themedialine.org - 28/1/14 MIDYAT, Turkey -- Miydat's Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. ... Read More
Christians and Kurds Form Coalition in Syria
Ann Buwalda Jubilee Campaign - January 2014 Jubilee Campaign USA and Jubilee Campaign Netherlands are jointly announcing with Law & Liberty Trust the alliance of the Syriacs ... Read More
Nineveh Province for Christians in Iraq? Let’s Wait and See
The Christian Mar Mattai monastry overlooking the Nineveh plain (Photo by Judit Neurink). By Judit Neurink http://rudaw.net - January 2014 ERBIL, Kurdistan Region -- "It is ... Read More
The World’s Most Ancient Christian Communities Are Being Destroyed — and No One Cares
August 26, 2013: Bishop-General Macarius (right), a Coptic Orthodox leader, walks around the damaged Evangelical Church in Minya, south of Cairo (REUTERS/Louafi Larbi). By Michael ... Read More
Swedish Assyrian Organization Opens Scholarship Program
18/1/14 Stockholm (AINA) -- Assyrians Without Borders (AWB), based in Stockholm, has announced the opening of their scholarships program for Assyrian students in Iraq, Syria, ... Read More
Picture: FOCUS News Agency Russians want to transform TZUM-Sofia into an Orthodox Church Museum (ROUNDUP)
12/12/13 Sofia. Russian investors want to purchase the building of TZUM-Sofia and transform it into an Orthodox Church Museum. The investment proposal for this move ... Read More
Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris compete for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav
18/11/13 Varna: Provat bishop Ignatiy and Agathonisi bishop Boris are the two candidates for Bulgarian Orthodox metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav. One of them ... Read More
Coptic Bishop Anba Makarios Escapes Assassination Attempt in Egypt
1/10/13 (AINA) -- Bishop Anba Makarios of Minya was the target of an unsuccessful assassination attempted this morning. The Bishop was driving into the ... Read More
Muslims Expel 6 Christian Brothers From Village in Egypt
30/9/13 (AINA) -- Violence against Egyptian Christians erupted yesterday in the village of Zakaria, located in the Upper Egyptian province of Minya. Zakaria has a ... Read More
Syrian Jihadist Rebels Murder Assyrian Man for Being Christian
28/9/13 Al-Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- A 26 year-old Assyrian man, Ninar Odisho, was murdered on Saturday, September 21, in the afternoon in the city of ... Read More
Serbian Orthodox Church Patriarch opposes Belgrade Pride Parade
Independent Balkan News Agency - 25/9/13 Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) Patriarch Irinej said that “nowadays nothing is so endangered as matrimony and family which are being ... Read More
Greek Orthodox Patriarch conducts religious ceremony at historic island church
BALIKESİR – Doğan News Agency - 23/9/13 The Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew yesterday conducted a religious ceremony on the Marmara Island of the northwestern ... Read More
Anti-Armenia group plans protest at Akdamar church
VAN - Doğan News Agency - 31/8/13 ASİMDER, an anti-Armenian diaspora association that “battles unfounded Armenian claims,” has announced that it will be placing flowers ... Read More
Syrian Bishop Warns Intervention Could Spark ‘World War’
(AFP) -- A Syrian Chaldean Catholic bishop on Monday warned that an armed intervention in Syria could unleash a "world war", while the Vatican's official ... Read More
Syrian Rebels Destroy Orthodox Church in Al-Thawrah
10/8/13 (AINA) -- The Antiochian Orthodox church of Sts. Sergius and Bacchus was a landmark of al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah). It was an impressive, modern structure with ... Read More
Assyrian Martyrs Day Commemorated Worldwide
August 7th is Assyrian Martyrs day. Today we remember one of the darkest moments in the history of humanity. On this day, hundreds of innocent ... Read More
Syrian Rebels to Assyrians: Convert to Islam to Keep Your Jobs
7/8/13 Al Thawrah, Syria (AINA) -- Accounts by Assyrian refugees from al-Thawrah (also known as al-Tabqah) reveal the real face of the Islamist undercurrent within the Syrian opposition. ... Read More
Assyrian Village in Syria Attacked By Muslims
31/7/13 Hassaka, Syria (AINA) -- The Assyrian village of Tel Hormizd was attacked on Saturday, July 27 at about midnight. Fifty Arab Muslims on motorcycles ... Read More