Tag: Syria

Syrian Christians in valley besieged by Islamic militia

OCP- December 14, 2012

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

OCP- December 14, 2012

  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

OCP- December 13, 2012

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

OCP- December 11, 2012

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

OCP- December 6, 2012

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

OCP- December 5, 2012

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

OCP- December 4, 2012

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- November 23, 2012

  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

OCP- November 20, 2012

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

OCP- November 16, 2012

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

OCP- November 13, 2012

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)

OCP- November 13, 2012

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

OCP- November 11, 2012

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

OCP- November 11, 2012

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’

OCP- November 2, 2012

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

OCP- November 2, 2012

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

OCP- October 29, 2012

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

OCP- October 25, 2012

    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

OCP- October 25, 2012

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

OCP- October 24, 2012

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

OCP- October 23, 2012

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