Tag: Syria
Destruction of the Christian Town of Sadad in Syria – Exclusive Images
OCP News Service - Exclusive 3/11/13 Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary) Forwarded by Mor Eusthathtios Matta ... Read More
Amid Syria’s civil war, a 40-foot statue of Jesus rises on mountain top between front lines
By Associated Press - 3/11/13 BEIRUT — In the midst of a conflict rife with sectarianism, a giant bronze statue of Jesus has gone up ... Read More
Devastating Images & Report from the Christian Town of Sadad in Syria – Exclusive
OCP News Service Exclusive - 31/10/13 Special Report by Mor Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh (Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama) Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri ... Read More
Ibrahim says case of abducted bishops more complicated
31/10/13 BEIRUT: General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim said Tuesday he knew the whereabouts of the two bishops kidnapped in Syria last April, describing ... Read More
Syrian Islamic leader says kidnapped Orthodox bishops are alive and in Turkey
CWN - -31/10/13 Two Orthodox bishops who were kidnapped in April by rebel forces in Syria are alive, and are now being held in Turkey, ... Read More
Islamists set fire to Armenian church in Syrian town
31/10/13 PanARMENIAN.Net - Islamists set fire to Surp Khach Armenian church in Tel Abyad town in northeast Syria. According to Beirut-based Aztag daily, the arson ... Read More
Al-Qa’ida Desecrates Church in Syria
30/10/13 Tel Abyaḍ, Syria (AINA) -- Recently in the town of Tel Abyaḍ, where there is a small Christian community, the Islamic State of Iraq ... Read More
Syrian troops retake Christian town north of Damascus after pushing out al-Qaida-linked rebels
Associated Press - 28/10/2013 DAMASCUS, SYRIA – Syria's state media say government forces have retaken a Christian town north of Damascus after a week of ... Read More
Appeal from Archbishop Selwanos Boutros for the safety of Christians in Saddad & Homs in Syria
27/10/13 To all international, humanitarian and religions organizations and institutions and to who have a humanitarian role in the world, To all people with good ... Read More
Anti-Christian terror is everyone’s concern
Steven B. Nasatir - 27/10/13 The persecution of any religious minority anywhere by anyone is an evil injustice. It requires all persons of conscience to ... Read More
Record-breaking Jesus Statue Built in Syria
Grace Cuddihy - 22/10/13 A bronze statue of Jesus Christ, taller than the famous Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, has appeared in war-torn Syria. The statue, entitled "I Have Come ... Read More
Al-Qaida-linked rebels battle army for control of Syrian Christian town
Associated Press - 22/10/13 BEIRUT — Syrian government forces battled Tuesday with al-Qaida-linked rebels trying to capture an ancient Christian town north of ... Read More
Syria: Christians erect statue of Jesus Christ as symbol of hope and peace
17/10/13 Envoys of the Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox churches have erected a monumental statue of Christ on top of the Cherubim Mountain in the Syrian ... Read More
Syrian Christians turning to Russia for protection
17/10/13 About 50,000 Syrian Christians want to apply for Russian citizenship. In a letter to the Russian Foreign Ministry, they said that they were not ... Read More
Bombs planted in confessional box of Syrian church
Colin Freeman - 17/10/13 Patriarch Gregorios III, Syria's most senior Christian leader, says bombs were found at ancient Cathedral of Constantine and Helen in rebel-held ... Read More
Terry Mattingly: Persecution stories on the rise worldwide
By Terry Mattingly From Scripps Howard News Service 17/10/13 JOPLIN, Mo. — Churches were burning in Pakistan, while African Christians died and radical forms of ... Read More
Security Chief Meets Patriarch John X over kidnapped bishops
15/10/13 BEIRUT: Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim met Saturday with Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X Yazigi and discussed the ongoing efforts to secure the release of ... Read More
Syrian Christians, in fear of Jihadists, begin to take up arms with Assad
15/10/13 As the Syrian civil war drags on, the rebels no longer simply want to topple a tyrannical regime. Now they want to replace the ... Read More
Patriarch John X Calls for All-embracing Cabinet, Urges Responsibility in Case of Kidnapped Bishops
Naharnet Newsdesk - 15/10/13 Greek Orthodox Patriarch Youhanna X Yazigi stressed on Tuesday the importance of forming an all-embracing government to avoid a constitutional vacuum and consolidate civil ... Read More
Deal could see release of two bishops in Syria: Afram
14/10/13 BEIRUT: A deal running in parallel with efforts to free the nine kidnapped Lebanese in Syria could see the release of two Greek Orthodox bishops who ... Read More
‘They aren’t real Muslims’: Radical mercenaries kidnap, kill both Syria Christians and Muslims
Syrian Orthodox Christians light candles before a mass marking the Palm Sunday in the Syrian capital in Damascus (AFP Photo / Louai Beshara) 11/10/13 Nadezhda ... Read More