Tag: North Africa
Lavrov Urge World Community For the Protection of Christians in Middle East and North Africa
Pic - YouTube OCP News Service - 27/7/21 Moscow - Russia: Sergei Lavrov, the Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation has urged the world community ... Read More
“Ed Day” Celebrates Grace of Martyrdom
SVOTS - 15/10/17 Hundreds of friends and alumni attended our annual open house, Orthodox Education Day, which this year had the timely theme, “Modern Martyrs: ... Read More
St. Vladimir’s Seminary to Host “Modern Martyrs: Christians of Middle East & North Africa” at Orthodox Education Day
SVOTS - 4/10/17 St. Vladimir’s Seminary to Host “Modern Martyrs: Christians of Middle East & North Africa” at Orthodox Education Day, October 7th. St. Vladimir’s ... Read More
Churches in Southern Egypt to Curtail Easter Celebrations After Deadly Bombings
© REUTERS/ Mohamed Abd El Ghany Sputniknews - 13/4/17 Several Egyptian churches in the southern city of Minya said on Tuesday that they will cut ... Read More
Beyond Anno Domini… To the Gracious Year of the Lord by Fr. Dr. K. M. George
Fr Dr K M George - January 2016 In the closing months of the year 2015 the world celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Einstein’s General Theory ... Read More
Blessing of the Holy Muron – Live television broadcast via satellite – July 18th – 2015
On the occasion of the Blessing of the Holy Muron (Holy Chrism), the Noursat Broadcast will be broadcasting LIVE via satellite the Holy Divine Liturgy presided ... Read More
OSCE CONFERENCE ON DISCRIMINATION AND INTOLERANCE TOWARDS CHRISTIANS
May 18, 2015 – A conference took place in Vienna on ‘Enhancing Efforts to Prevent and Combat Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians, Focusing on Hate ... Read More
Kremlin official slams violence against members of Moscow-ruled Orthodox Church in Ukraine
Moscow, December 11, Interfax - President Vladimir Putin's chief of staff, Sergey Ivanov, has slammed violence in Ukraine against the Orthodox Christian community governed by ... Read More
Metropolitan Hilarion:“The voice of many millions of Orthodox believers should be heard and taken into account”
Address by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk to the 1st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy. On June 26, the opening of the 21st Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Orthodoxy ... Read More
Why Are Christians the World’s Most Persecuted Group?
Raymond Ibrahim - February/ March 2014 Why are Christians, as a new Pew report documents, the most persecuted religious group in the world? And why ... Read More
A round table held in Moscow on the situation of Christians in the Middle East and North Africa
On November 5, 2013, a round table on “The situation of Christians: new threats and the humanitarian missions of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society” was ... Read More
Egypt: Coptic church cancels Sunday Liturgy for 1st time in 1,600 years
Michal Shmulovich -20/8/13 Amid escalating violence against Egypt’s Copts, churches in Minya, located in upper Egypt, cancelled Sunday Liturgy for the first time in 1,600 years. Other ... Read More
Hague called to protect Christian minorities in Egypt and Syria
29/6/2012 Release International is calling on Foreign Secretary William Hague to keep human and religious rights at the forefront of any talks with Egyptian and ... Read More
Patriarch Kirill fears all Christians could leave Arab world
Moscow, December 2, Interfax - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed concern over an upsurge of violence against Christian minorities in the ... Read More
A miracle in Egypt
13 /10/2011 My Dear Friends, In the tradition of the Coptic Orthodox Church there was a story of a Muslim Caliph who challenged the Coptic ... Read More
Historic Church of St. George in Tripoli Ransacked
Anastasia Chaini 25/8/2011 The historic church of St. George located in Libya, in Tripoli, dating back to 1647 was ransacked. The church is the oldest ... Read More