Tag: News Agency
Three suspects who allegedly killed Syrian bishops captured in Turkey
Christian clerics hold candles during a candle-lit vigil at the Balamand Monastery in Koura, near the north Lebanese city of Tripoli, to call for the ... Read More
Crete’s Archdiocese Offers Land For Jobless
23/7/13- Christina Flora Archbishop of Crete Eirinaios said the Church is proposing to give farmland to people without jobs to help them during a crushing economic ... Read More
No evidence of physical violence on bishop of Bulgaria’s Varn
FOCUS News Agency - 10/7/13 Varna. So far there is no information about the death of Varna metropolitan bishop Kiril that could lead to a ... Read More
Coptic Pope Awards Assyrian Chorepiscopos
30/6/13 Vienna (AINA) -- In his second overseas trip since his inauguration in November 2012, Egypt's Coptic Patriarch Pope Tawadros II visited Vienna on May ... Read More
Islamists Warn Christians From Demonstrating to Topple Egyptian President
15/6/13 Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- The youth-led Tamarod (rebel) Initiative has collected more than their targeted 15,000,000 signatures calling for a ... Read More
Basilica – News Agency – 5 Years of Activity
Sunday, 16 June 2013, Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates five years of activity. The agency is part of the Basilica Press Centre ... Read More
Rebels kidnap two Aleppo bishops
22/4/13 BEIRUT: Two Aleppian bishops were kidnapped by Syrian rebels in the outskirts of the city Monday evening, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported. The driver of Boulos ... Read More
Serbia buries 13 victims of shooting spree
FOCUS News Agency - 13/4/13 Velika Ivanca. Church bells rang out in the tiny Serbian village of Velika Ivanca on Friday, as hundreds of tearful mourners ... Read More
Bulgarians place highest trust in Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church: poll
4/4/13 Sofia. Bulgarians place highest trust in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church and this is the only institution with a positive rating, show the results of ... Read More
Armenian church in Turkey rings bell for first time in nearly 100 years
DİYARBAKIR / ANKARA - Doğan News Agency - 2/4/13 The Armenian community has rung the bells of Diyarbakır’s Surp Giragos Armenian Church for the first ... Read More
Syria’s Christians Fear Iraq Scenario
8/3/13 Beirut -- Former President Hafez Al-Assad did not rule in the name of minorities, but in the name of the secular Ba'ath party. Contrary ... Read More
President Gül meets Syriac Church leader
20/2/13 ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency President Abdullah Gül welcomed Patriarchal Vicar of the Syriac Orthodox Church Mor Filiksinos Yusuf Çetin on Feb. 18 along ... Read More
Fayoum: Islamic extremists attack Coptic church, wounding pastor
17/2/13 A crowd, incited by a Salafi leader, attacked the church of Saint Georgas. The Cross on the dome destroyed, part of the interior and ... Read More
Plovdiv metropolitan bishop says he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria
14/1/13 - FOCUS News Agency Plovdiv. Metropolitan bishop Nikolay of Plovdiv has announced that he does not want to be elected Patriarch of Bulgaria. “You ... Read More
Egypt’s New Constitution Gives Coptic Christians a Bleak and Unstable Future
24/12/12 Egyptians have approved a controversial new constitution. According to reports, Egyptians have endorsed the new charter in the two-stage referendum; the approved charter gives ... Read More
Holy Synod: Election of the head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church is not subject to judicial control
15/11/2012 - Focus News Agency Sofia. The election of head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (BOC) is not subject to state judicial control. This is the canonical question ... Read More
Illegal diggings reveal ancient church, mosaics
ISPARTA - Anatolia News Agency 5/10/2012 The ruins of a church and mosaics discovered in illegal excavations in Isparta will be prepared for visitors. The ... Read More
Istanbul Patriarchate purchases world’s third oldest church
BURSA - Anatolia News Agency 13/9/2012 The world's reputedly third oldest church, the Byzantine Başmelekler Church, or Taksiyarhon Church, was purchased by the Istanbul patriarchate ... Read More
Forest fire near Greek Orthodox monastery spreads
FOCUS News Agency 9/8/2012 Thessaloniki. Authorities ordered the evacuation Thursday of young families and the elderly as a wildfire near Greece's monastic community of Mount ... Read More
Sunni Rebels Occupying Churches, Homes of Syrian Christians
30/7/2012 www.worldnewstribune.com Assyrian International News Agency LONDON -- The Vatican has determined that Sunni rebels were targeting the Christian community in Syria. The Vatican has ... Read More
Patriarch visits church in Alanya
ALANYA - Anatolia News Agency 19/7/2012 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew has visited Hıdırellez Church at the Alanya Tower July 17, and also met with Alanya ... Read More