Tag: Rights Reserved

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

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

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

Syria’s Christians Fear Iraq Scenario

OCP- March 8, 2013

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

Egypt’s New Constitution Gives Coptic Christians a Bleak and Unstable Future

OCP- December 24, 2012

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

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

Christians in Israel: Thriving, Beleaguered at the Same Time

OCP- December 23, 2011

David Rosenberg 22/12/2011 They succeed at school and at work, but their numbers are barely growing Economically, the Holy Land’s tiny Christian minority is thriving ... Read More