Tag: News Agency
Egyptian Church Threatens to Withdraw From Constituent Assembly Over Sharia Article
Assyrian International News Agency 6/7/2012 The Coptic Orthodox Church threatened to withdraw its Constituent Assembly representatives Wednesday over concerns the new constitution will not represent ... Read More
German Parliament Resolution Supports Embattled Assyrian Monastery in Turkey
18/6/2012 Assyrian International News Agency Berlin -- The German parliament decides today, on Thursday evening, on an application introduced by the parliamentary groups of the ... Read More
Basilica News Agency Four Years Since Setting Up
Romanian Orthodox Church On 16 June 2012, Basilica News Agency of the Romanian Patriarchate celebrates four years of existence. The role of Basilica News Agency ... Read More
The Difference Between Christians and Christians in Syria
Augin Kurt Haninke Assyrian International News Agency 6/6/2012 (AINA) -- It is well known that most Christians in Syria support Assad's regime because they fear ... Read More
Bulgarians from Bosilegrad raise funds for the restoration of the burnt church in Bolgrad
FOCUS News Agency 31/5/2012 Bosilegrad. The fund-raising campaign in Bosilegrad for the restoration of the burnt Transfiguration Orthodox Church in Bolgrad has ended, the Cultural ... Read More
Egypt Sentences 12 Coptic Christians to Life in Prison
Assyrian International News Agency 22/5/2012 On 21 May, Egypt's State Security Council sentenced 12 Christians to life in prison and acquitted eight Muslims. The Christians ... Read More
What is most important to Macedonian Orthodox Church is to return to canonical field, says Russian bishop
FOCUS News Agency 29/4/2012 Sofia. What is most important to the Macedonian Orthodox Church is for it to return to the canonical field, bishop Hilarion, ... Read More
Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches can play role of a bridge between the two nations: Russian Patriarch
Focus News Agency 26/4/2012 Our two churches are brotherly churches, with very close historical, cultural and spiritual bonds, which date back into the past, Patriarch ... Read More
Orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture
4/4/2012 FOCUS News Agency Sofia. The first lecture on orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture was delivered yesterday at the Festa Sofia Hotel by ... Read More
Catholicos Karekin II wishes PM Borisov luck in all his deeds
FOCUS News Agency 3/4/2012 Sofia. “Our Church was established in 301, when the Christianity was declared official religion. From here, we conduct the spiritual guidance ... Read More
90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria
26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role ... Read More
Christians’ Future in the Iraqi Kurdistan
23/3/2012 Abdulla Hawez Abdulla Assyrian International News Agency As it becomes clear that one major outcome of the region's revolutions will be the empowerment of ... Read More
300 Muslim Lawyers Storm Egyptian Court, Prevent Lawyers for Christian From Entering
By Mary Abdelmassih Assyrian International News Agency 16/3/2012 (AINA) -- More than 300 Muslim lawyers inside and outside a courthouse in the southern Egyptian province ... Read More
Bulgarians in Chisinau want at least one church with services in Bulgarian
6/3/2012 FOCUS News Agency Chisinau. The newly established NGO Bulgarian Community in Moldova – Bessarabian Bulgarians has required for at least one of the two ... Read More
Egyptian Female Presidential Candidate Aims to Give Voice to Minorities
9/3/2012 Potential presidential candidate, Bothaina Kamel, considers her participation in the presidential race “a victory for all marginalized minorities” in Egypt. “Women are considered second ... Read More
Turkish government ‘firm’ on solving woes of minorities
ANKARA - Anatolia News Agency 4/3/2012 Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities after decades of official ... Read More
Approval of Bulgarian Orthodox Church declines by 17% in past 3 months: poll
27/2/2012 Sofia. The approval of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church has declined by 17% (from 53% to 36%) in the past three months, reveals an opinion ... Read More
20,000 Muslims Attempt to Kill Pastor and Torch Church in Egypt
By Mary Abdelmassih 15/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- A mob of nearly 20,000 radical Muslims, mainly Salafis, attempted this evening to break into ... Read More
Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles
13/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency The rapidly changing Middle East is witnessing convulsions which are indeed revolutionary when it comes to alliances. After all, in ... Read More
Nevrokop Bishop Nathaniel: We have not been informers and will not become now
25/1/2012 FOCUS News Agency Dissenting opinion of Bishop of Nevrokop Nathaniel stated at a meeting of the Holy Synod of the full composition, report № ... Read More
Egyptian Bishop Warns of Another Massacre in Nag Hammadi
By Mary Abdelmassih 31/12/2011 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) -- Bishop Kyrillos, the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Nag Hammadi, received last week several threats of ... Read More