Tag: Sudan
The Orthodox Church Granted Permission to Build a Place of Worship in Sudan
An Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Khartoum, Sudan. Pic - Wiki OCP News Service - 1/8/21 Sudan: The Orthodox Church in the country has been granted ... Read More
Occidental World Magazine Publish Article on Persecuted Christians of Eritrea
Occidental World Magazine - 10/3/18 High Concerns on the Situation of Patriarch Abune Antonios of Eritrea Global: The Occidental World Magazine of the Occidental Studies ... Read More
“This is a desert place”
Orthodox Mission Fraternity - South Sudan • Diocese of Nubia - November 2015 The word of God on the eighth Sunday of Matthew is very remarkable. There ... Read More
Ethiopian life in Beit Shean
Hava preparing to host in her garden; Photo courtesy: Travelujah Elisa and Hava inside her home. Photo courtesy Travelujah August 2015- http://www.travelujah.com/ When people are thinking ... Read More
ANOTHER CHRISTIAN PASTOR TO BE GRANTED AN EARLY PRISON RELEASE IN IRAN
July 2015 Protestant pastor Farshid Fathi, 36, was arrested in December 2010 in Teheran. Subsequently he was sentenced to 7 years in prison on charges ... Read More
2014: a missionary year in review
Orthodox Missionary Fraternity - Januray 2015 2014 has been a very important year for the Orthodox Missions worldwide. The global financial crisis significantly reduced -for ... Read More
Children of South Sudan
Orthodox Mission in South Sudan - November 2014 South Sudan is the newest independent state in the world, formed in July 2011. The majority of ... Read More
Former Sudanese Detainee to Launch Campaign Against Religious Persecution
RIA Novosti - October 2014 MOSCOW, September 28 (RIA Novosti) - A former Sudanese detainee, Mariam Ibrahim, who was charged with apostasy and managed to escape ... Read More
Sudan bans construction of new churches
16/7/14 Sudan has prohibited the construction of any new church in the country which has been under an Islamic regime since 1989. The Sudanese Minister ... Read More
After release, Sudan’s Meriam Ibrahim speaks out
7/5/14 Mariam Yehya Ibrahim, the Sudanese woman previously sentenced to death for apostasy, spoke up for the first time, sharing her fears for the health ... Read More
Meriam Ibrahim apostasy death sentence leaves Sudan’s Christians feeling unsafe
Brownie Marie - 10/6/14 Christians in Sudan are not attending church services like they used to in the wake of the Meriam Ibrahim apostasy case, activists ... Read More
Ecumenical Patriarch’s Statement condemning religious violence in Northern Africa
May 2014 The Ecumenical Patriarchate has witnessed with great pain and distress the recent manifestations of religious violence against women in Northern Africa, which have ... Read More
Jizya-Vigilantes Target Christian Minorities
Raymond Ibrahim - 14/3/14 In the al-Nafura region of Asyut, Egypt, an increasingly common scene took place earlier this month. Isaac Eli—a Coptic Christian—was abducted under ... Read More
Divine diplomacy: build Russian church, let temple stay
CHARU SUDAN KASTURI - 17/10/13 Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s StMatthew 22:21 New ... Read More
Two Sudan Coptic priests arrested after ‘baptism’
Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir (left) and Bishop Srabamon (right) during Ramadan iftar in 2012 organized by Sudan’s Copts. Sudan’s Copts have not experienced the ... Read More
Muslim Persecution of Christians: June 2012
Raymond Ibrahim 30/7/2012 U.S.-backed rebels are committing Christian genocide in Syria, where they are sacking churches and issuing threats that all Christians will be cleansed ... Read More
Faith Digest: Report names Turkey as offender
30/3/2012 Turkey cited for religious freedom woes. Turkey stands as a new and controversial addition to an annual list of the worst offenders of religious ... Read More
The future looks bleak for Middle East Christians
By Ben Cohen 22/3/2012 Not every Christian community in the Middle East lives with the scale of terror currently in Sudan, itbut is legitimate to ... Read More
One Christian in the world dies for faith every five minutes – Statistics
Moscow, June 24, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church urged well-developed countries to set up an effective system of protecting Christians, in particular using financial ... Read More
Orthodox Patriarch Ordains New Deacons
Dan Wandera 15 /3/2011 Patriarchate of Alexandria The Eastern Orthodox Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodoros II, has ordained two deacons to ... Read More
Pope Shenouda will not lead Feast of the Epiphany in Alexandria
17/1/2011 Pope Shenouda, who returned to Egypt from a medical trip to the US today, will not lead Divine Liturgy for the Feast of the ... Read More