Tag: Syrian Christians

Syrian-Christian Women’s Defensive Group Will Fight Against The Turkish Invasion in Northern Syria

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 10, 2019

Pic- HSNB aut Twitter Faruk Firat – (Editor Christian Affairs – the Levant and the Middle East) - OCP News Service - 10/11/2019 Istanbul-Tukey: Syrian-Christian ... Read More

Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights Issues Report on Christian Persecution in Syria

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- June 23, 2018

The St. Odisho Assyrian Church in Tel Tal, Syria, was bombed by ISIS. AINA - 23/6/18 (AINA) -- The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights has released a ... Read More

Top Russian Cleric Spotlights Ordeal of Christian Minority in Middle East

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 14, 2017

© Sputnik/ Valery Melnikov Sputniknews - 14/5/17 In a meeting with US Vice President on Thursday, Russian Metropolitan Hilarion discussed the hardships of Christians in ... Read More

RUSSIAN CHURCH TO GIFT KAZAN ICON TO SYRIAN CHURCH IN HONOR OF FALLEN RUSSIAN SOLDIERS

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- February 17, 2017

Photo: Foma.ru Pravoslavie.ru - 17/2/17 On Sunday Metropolitan Isidore of Ekaterinodar and Kuban will bless a copy of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, ... Read More

Syrian Christians Invite Russian Patriarch to Visit Country

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- January 10, 2017

Sputnknews - 10/1/17 Syrian Christians and scientists invited Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to visit the Middle Eastern country, Chief Mufti of Moscow ... Read More

CHURCH-STATE DELEGATION VISITS SYRIA

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- April 17, 2016

DECR Communication Service - April 2016 A delegation of Russian parliamentarians, members of the inter-factional group for defending Christian values, was on a visit to Syria ... Read More

OCP Secretary “Making Fun of Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II & Syriac Orthodox Christians Unacceptable”

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 8, 2015

OCP Delegation holds the historic meeting with Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II at Puthenkurish in February 2015.Prakash Varghese ( OCP Delegate of UAE, Gulf & Levant) ... Read More

Jeb Bush Lies, Says Bashar Assad ‘Executes’ Christians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 22, 2015

Bashar Assad — Jeb Bush’s “executor” of Christians — inspects one of countless Christian churches intentionally desecrated or destroyed by U.S. sponsored “freedom fighters.” Raymond ... Read More

Syrian Christian Leader: Russia “Really Targeting ISIS,” U.S. Airstrikes Are Just “Window Dressing”

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- October 16, 2015

Msgr. Jacques Behnan Hindo Raymondibrahim- October 2015 Whatever  Russia’s motives in Syria, one thing is clear: persecuted Syrian Christians favor Russian intervention against the jihadis ... Read More

“I only ask the West one thing: Stop arming our assassins” – Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- July 5, 2015

July 2015- http://en.abouna.org/ Interview with the Syrian Orthodox Patriarch, Aphrem II: martyrdom is not a human sacrifice offered to God in order to obtain his favour. ... Read More

IOCC Assists Syrian Christians Traumatized in Deadly Attack

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- March 16, 2015

ww.nytimes.com February- March 2015 Baltimore, MD (IOCC) — Fleeing for their lives, more than 2,400 exhausted and traumatized Christians from northeastern Syria sought refuge in ... Read More

The Use and Abuse of Syrian Christians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- February 28, 2015

Ana Maria Luca https://now.mmedia.me - 28/2/15 On 12 February, after a Jabhat al-Nusra suicide attack on a bus carrying Shiite pilgrims in Damascus that killed six ... Read More

St. Vladimir’s Seminary appeal to aid suffering Syrian Christians

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 1, 2014

YONKERS, NY - November 2014 When His Beatitude, Patriarch John X (Yazigi), Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, visits the United States ... Read More

Syria’s Christians Under Threat

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- August 9, 2014

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg - 9/8/14 The wildfire victories of the Islamic State (IS, formerly the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) in northern Iraq and Syria have left ... Read More

World Turns Away as Rebel Massacres of Syrian Christians Intensify

OCP- December 23, 2013

Alex Newman - 23/12/13 The world media is increasingly losing interest in the foreign-fueled war still raging in Syria between the Assad regime and an assortment ... Read More

Greek Orthodox bishop denies urging Syrian Christians to take up arms

OCP- December 19, 2013

CWN -19/12/13 A Greek Orthodox bishop has denied urging Syrian Christians to take up arms, according to a new Fides news agency report. Bishop Lukas El ... Read More

Syrian Christians fear extremist rebels

OCP- December 14, 2013

The deaths of four children in a mortar attack has shaken Christians in Damascus Bishop Armash Nalbandian said his community felt safe under Assad's rule ... Read More

Christians fall victim to the Syrian carnage

OCP- December 14, 2013

14/12/13 Most of the armed conflicts in the Middle East go down to religious confrontation. Syria is a glaring example of this. Christians make up ... Read More

Bishop: Syrian Christians called to “take up arms”

OCP- December 10, 2013

10/12/13 A senior Orthodox Church official has urged Christians to take up arms to defend themselves and their holy places in the wake of the ... Read More

Bassil seeks unified effort to protect Syrian Christians

OCP- December 10, 2013

The Daily Star - 10/12/13 BEIRUT: Caretaker Energy  Minister Gebran Bassil  called for forming a Lebanese  delegation to tour countries with influence on the “terrorist ... Read More

Syrian Christians flee persecution as Patriarch urges them to stay in war-torn country

OCP- November 22, 2013

22/11/13 As some 450,000 Christians have fled Syria since a civil war erupted two years ago, the Syrian Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic church ... Read More