Tag: News Agency

Egyptian Church Threatens to Withdraw From Constituent Assembly Over Sharia Article

OCP- July 6, 2012

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

OCP- June 20, 2012

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

OCP- June 17, 2012

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

OCP- June 7, 2012

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

OCP- May 31, 2012

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

OCP- May 23, 2012

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

OCP- April 29, 2012

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

OCP- April 27, 2012

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

OCP- April 5, 2012

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

OCP- April 3, 2012

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

OCP- March 26, 2012

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

OCP- March 23, 2012

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

OCP- March 16, 2012

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

OCP- March 16, 2012

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

OCP- March 10, 2012

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

OCP- March 4, 2012

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

OCP- February 29, 2012

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

OCP- February 15, 2012

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

OCP- February 13, 2012

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

OCP- January 28, 2012

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

OCP- January 3, 2012

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