Tag: News Agency

Directive From History Drives Discrimination Against Christians in the Middle East

OCP- February 4, 2014

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

OCP- January 31, 2014

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?

OCP- January 28, 2014

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

OCP- January 28, 2014

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

OCP- January 25, 2014

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

OCP- January 25, 2014

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

OCP- January 25, 2014

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

OCP- January 18, 2014

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)

OCP- December 12, 2013

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

OCP- November 18, 2013

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

OCP- October 1, 2013

  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

OCP- September 30, 2013

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

OCP- September 28, 2013

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

OCP- September 25, 2013

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

OCP- September 23, 2013

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

OCP- August 31, 2013

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’

OCP- August 28, 2013

(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

OCP- August 10, 2013

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

OCP- August 7, 2013

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

OCP- August 7, 2013

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

OCP- July 31, 2013

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