Tag: Syria
Syrian Christians in valley besieged by Islamic militia
13/12/12 About 150,000 Christians are living in fear in western Syria, in a valley that has been subjected to steady artillery fire by Islamic rebels, ... Read More
Challenge of Syria awaits next Greek Orthodox patriarch
Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star - 14/12/12 BEIRUT: Confronting the challenges facing Syrian and Lebanese Christians will top the agenda of the new Greek ... Read More
Armenians Fleeing Anew as Syria Erupts in Battle
Displaced young Syrian Armenians at the recently opened Cilician School in Yerevan, Armenia. ALIA MALEK - 11/12/12 YEREVAN, Armenia — At the newly opened Cilician ... Read More
The plight of Middle East Christians took me back to Lebanon
Terry Waite - 11/12/12 Last week I returned to Lebanon, a quarter of a century after being kidnapped and held captive for almost five years, most ... Read More
Patriarch Ignatius Hazim to be buried at Mariameh Cathedral and Patriarchate Cemetery in Damascus
6/12/2012 Patriarch Ignatius Hazim's funeral will be held Sunday at 12 p.m at Mariameh Cathedral and Patriarchate Cemetery, Damascus. Services will also be held at St Nicholas ... Read More
Patriarch Hazim Passes Away after Suffering Stroke
Lebanon, 05/12/12 Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch and all the East passed away on Wednesday after suffering from a stroke. He was admitted to ... Read More
DECR chairman discusses the situation of Christians in Syria with Syria’s ambassador
November 29, 2012 – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, met with Syria’s ambassador to Moscow Dr ... Read More
Archbishop Eustathius Matta Roham on the Situation in Syria (Exclusive)
OCP News Service (Exclusive) 23/11/2012 Archbishop Eustathius Matta Roham of Jazirah & Euphrates of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East spoke ... Read More
Iranian FM: Insecure Syria Benefits No One but Zionist Regime
20/11/2012 TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran's foreign minister blamed the terrorist groups and their foreign advocates for continued instability and bloodshed in Syria, saying that lack of ... Read More
Detroit Begins Fundraising for Syrian-Armenian Relief
By Georgi-Ann Oshagan - 16/11/2012 Greater Detroit’s Armenian community kicked off its ongoing fundraising program on Oct. 26 to support Syrian-Armenian relief efforts, as ongoing ... Read More
Catholicos Aram I: Der Zor Genocide Complex to be Restored
12/11/2012 It appears that damage to the Armenian Genocide Memorial Complex in Der Zor, Syria, was the result of artillery clashes in the area and ... Read More
Armenian Genocide memorial severely damaged in Syria (video)
12/11/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian Genocide Martyrs Memorial Church, also known as the Holy Martyrs Armenian Church, in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, has been severely damaged as ... Read More
Anti-Assad Syria National Council picks a Christian to be its new leader
BY ROY GUTMAN - McClatchy Newspapers 12/11/2012 DOHA, QATAR -- Syria’s biggest political opposition bloc Friday elected a Christian, George Sabra, as president, a move Sabra said ... Read More
Suffering of Syrian Christians at the hands of rebel groups in Syria
BEATRIZ SCHIAVA 12/11/2012 Thursday, November 8. Agenzia Fidesinformed today that the Catholic Church is trying to rescue ten Christians who were abducted by an armed group ... Read More
The plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us’
KIM SENGUPTA AL-QAA, LEBANON 2/11/2012 In the civil war, they have tried to stay neutral. But despite this, many are now facing persecution and death. ... Read More
Car bomb attacks in Syria are targeting Christian neighborhoods and Churches
2/11/2012 Monday, October 29. A car bomb exploded in Jaramana, a suburb of Damascus killing 11 people and injuring more than 60 people according to ... Read More
Car bomb blast damages church in eastern Syria
27/10/2012 Damascus, Oct. 27 (Xinhua-ANI): A booby-trapped car went off in front of al-Serian Church in Syria's eastern province of Deir al- Zour on Saturday, ... Read More
Orthodox Priest Murdered in Damascus
25/10/2012 MEMORY ETERNAL !!! Damascus: The body of the Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, pastor of the church of St. Elias ... Read More
Syrian bishop: ‘all the churches desecrated’ in Homs
CWN 22/10/2012 The Chaldean Catholic bishop of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, told an audience at Parliament in London that the city is in “chaos.” Christians ... Read More
Russian Church Highlights Persecution of Christians in Syria
UNITED NATIONS (RIA Novosti) 24/10/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church is worried about the persecution of Christians in Syria and other Arab countries where regimes changed ... Read More
Communiqué issued by the Syrian Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo
22/10/2012 On Friday 19th October 2012 The Syrian Orthodox’ School (Bani Taghleb I), which is adjacent to the Archbishopric complex in the Sulaimania District of ... Read More