Tag: Saudi Arabia
First Ever Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy Celebrated in Saudi Arabia
John Anton (Correspondent - Coptic Affairs) - OCP News Service - 3/12/18 Riyadh- Saudi Arabia: A report by Cairoscese states that the first ever Coptic Orthodox Divine Liturgy ... Read More
‘Don’t open doors to evil’: Top Saudi cleric calls concerts & cinemas a ‘depravity’
FILE PHOTO © Ahmed Jadallah / Reuters RT.Com - 16/1/17 Cinemas and singing concerts are merely a depravity, Saudi Arabia’s top religious cleric said, adding ... Read More
“Francis and Kirill… The People of Syria Know Best” – Fr Georges Massouh on Francis and Kirill’s Joint Statement
www.zimbio.com February 2016 - Notes on Arab Orthodoxy Francis and Kirill... The People of Syria Know Best There is no doubt that the meeting between ... Read More
The Letter of Prophet Muhammad to the Orthodox Monks of St. Catherine Monastery in Mount Sinai
Prophet Muhammad 's Letter to the Monks of St. Catherine in Mt. Sinai offering protection religious freedom and peace. Pic Source: Wikipedia The Higher Learning.com - ... Read More
Famous Saudi Arabian Personality Dr Khalid Al Shamry Discovers Jesus Christ
August 2015 Visit FB PAGE: A Saudi Muslim discovers Jesus. Dr Khalid Al Shamry, a microbiologist, is now reaching out to Muslims with the gospel. ... Read More
METROPOLITAN HILARION OF VOLOKOLAMSK MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR OF SAUDI ARABIA TO RUSSIA
On 23 June 2015, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with H. T. Abdulrahman Ibrahim ... Read More
Archbishop Atallah Hanna Responds to Leaked Saudi Document
22/6/15 The Arabic original can be found here. Clarification issued by His Eminence Atallah Hanna - Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Sebate in Jerusalem We were ... Read More
5th-6th century Christian monuments discovered in Saudi Arabia
6/2/15 Ancient monuments of Christian culture have been discovered in the sands of the southern desert of Saudi Arabia, reports the Linga portal with the ... Read More
27 Christians in Saudi Arabia Arrested for Using House As a Church
http://www.ecumenicalnews.com - September 2015 Saudi authorities have swooped on a house in the eastern province city of Khafji, on the border with Kuwait, and arrested 27 ... Read More
Syrian Archbishop: Assad is staying
Sakher Naser and Ali Harb - 2/8/13 Archbishop Louka El-Khouri, patriarchal auxiliary of the Syrian Orthodox church, believes that the Syrian regime will not fall ... Read More
Syrian rebels destroy Shi’ite site, loot churches: HRW
Alexander Dziadosz | Reuters - 25/1/13 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels in Syria have burned and looted the religious sites of minorities, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday, ... Read More
Intolerance is rife in Islamic lands
STEVE HUNTLEY shuntley.cst@gmail.com 9/8/2012 As the horrific attack on the Sikh temple in Wisconsin showed, no society is secure from the occasional outrage by a ... Read More
Saudis release Christians
6/8/2012 Almost three dozen imprisoned Christian Ethiopians in Saudi Arabia have been freed after months of being held by the authorities there. The 35 Ethiopians ... Read More
Syrian Christians in the war between fundamentalists and secularists, Sunnis and Shiites
Samir Khalil Samir 12/6/2012 Al Qabas, Kuwait's daily newspaper, reports the arrival in Syria of jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Pakistan. Among them many ... Read More
Europe bishops slam Saudi fatwa against Gulf churches
By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor 24/3/2012 PARIS (Reuters) - Christian bishops in Germany, Austria and Russia have sharply criticised Saudi Arabia's top religious official after ... Read More
The World’s Worst Religious Persecutors – OpEd
By Nina Shea 20/3/2012 Today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (Uscirf) released its 14th annual report, which it is mandated to do under ... Read More
Christians angry as Saudi Grand Mufti calls for churches to be destroyed
Joseph Mayton 16/3/2012 Christians across the Middle East are expressing anger and frustration after the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia said it is “necessary to ... Read More
Saudi Grand Mufti Calls for “Destruction of All Churches in Region”
Raymond Ibrahim 16/3/2012 According to several Arabic news sources, last Monday, Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, declared that it ... Read More
Ethiopian Christians to be deported from Saudi Arabia
1/2/2012 Some 35 Ethiopian Christians face deportation from Saudi Arabia for "illicit mingling", the global rights body Human Rights Watch (HRW) says. Police arrested the ... Read More
Growing Islamic fundamentalism in Bosnia-Herzegovina
John Newton and Eva-Marie Kolman 20/1/2012 Christians and moderate Muslims are trying to stem the tide of Islamo-fascism in the heart of the former Yugoslavia. ... Read More
Saudi Arabia: 42 Ethiopian Christians arrested for Prayer Meeting
18/12/2011 If Muslim migrants were subjected anywhere in the world to the injustices Christians and other expat workers face in Saudi Arabia, it would be ... Read More