Tag: Syrian Christians
Christians fear violent backlash from Syria uprising
Katie Harmer, Deseret News 12/9/2012 Our take: Much focus on the civil war Syria has focused on the political and Islamic sectarian divisions between loyalists ... Read More
Syrian Christians in 2-week blockade by rebel fighters, residents desperate
REUTERS Khaled Al Hariri 28/8/2012 An estimated 12,000 people have spent two weeks blockaded in the Christian town of Rableh, Syria, near Homs in the ... Read More
The Peculiar Predicament of Syrian Christians
Salam Kawakbi 15/8/2012 When it comes to Syria, the plight of religious minorities is one of the primary issues that garner great attention among news ... Read More
The refugees with nowhere to turn: Syrian Christians share their stories
SyndiGate.info 5/8/2012 George is wounded but he has no scars. It’s pain of an emotional kind that ails him. He feels scorned and humiliated, like ... Read More
Sunni Rebels Occupying Churches, Homes of Syrian Christians
30/7/2012 www.worldnewstribune.com Assyrian International News Agency LONDON -- The Vatican has determined that Sunni rebels were targeting the Christian community in Syria. The Vatican has ... Read More
Syrian Christians Fear for Their Future if Extremists Take Control
23/7/2012 Jerry Dykstra, Open Doors USA, jerryd@odusa.org SANTA ANA, Calif., July 23, 2012 /Christian Newswire/ -- With Syrian President Bashar al-Assad possibly losing his grip ... Read More
Christians Are Evacuated From Syrian City
Associated Press 11/7/2012 DAMASCUS, Syria—A group of Christians trapped in the besieged, bombed-out Syrian city of Homs has been evacuated after a deal between the ... Read More
Opposition demanding Syrian Christians leave
28/6/2012 Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are ... Read More
Syrian Christians feel vulnerable as country descends into civil war
Syria Christians Sister Verona, the head of the Sednaya Covent, shows journalists a damaged room which was attacked by gunfire in Sednya, north of Damascus. ... Read More
Syrian Christians in the war between fundamentalists and secularists, Sunnis and Shiites
Samir Khalil Samir 12/6/2012 Al Qabas, Kuwait's daily newspaper, reports the arrival in Syria of jihadists from Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Pakistan. Among them many ... Read More
Syrian Christians fear Islamist rule if Assad goes
15/5/2012 Damascus: Christians living in conflict-torn Syria are afraid their community would fall victim of religious extremism if President Bashar al-Assad's regime collapses and Islamists ... Read More
Islamists force 50,000 Christians to flee from Syrian city of Homs
Damascus: April 16, 2012. (PCP) The Syrian Orthodox Church, which represents over half of Syrian Christians, issued a statement saying revolutionary fighters had expelled some ... Read More
Obama-backed Syrian Rebels “Ethnic Cleansing” Christians
ALEX NEWMAN 2/4/2012 Armed Islamist rebel groups in Syria supported by the Obama administration and Western governments seeking to oust “President” Bashir al-Assad are engaged ... Read More
Syrian Christians and Muslims Pray Together for Peace
22/3/2012 Damascus, Mar 22 (Prensa Latina) The Kyrillos Church in the Syrian neighborhood of al-Qasaa hosted a joint prayer for Christian and Muslim religious leaders ... Read More
Syrian Christians fleeing to Lebanon
7/3/2012 Amid reports that 1,000 Syrians are now fleeing the country daily for Lebanon, the national director of the Pontifical Mission Societies in Lebanon described ... Read More
Syrian Christians worry about life after Bashar Assad
By Alexandra Zavis, Los Angeles Times 6/3/2012 They fear civil war and revenge attacks if President Bashar Assad falls, an anxiety fed by the sectarian ... Read More
Syria: Christians Afraid To Go Out At Night, Ask For Prayer
Eurasia Review 25/2/2012 In the wake of a year of protests and violence, the volatile situation in Syria has brought great suffering to the entire ... Read More
Russia’s concern for besieged Syrian Christians
BENEDICT COLERIDGE 13/2/2012 The recent Russian and Chinese vetos of a UN Security Council resolution on Syria have been condemned in the strongest terms by ... Read More
Syrian Christians Fear Genocide if al-Assad Falls to Muslim Extremists
BRUCE WALKER 10/2/2012 Catholic bishops are warning that if the Bashar al-Assad (left) regime in Syria falls to Islamists, there may well be a mass ... Read More
Regime-change calls stir Syrian Christians’ unease
Gerald Butt 18/11/2011 THE minority Christian community in Syria is feeling increasingly uncomfortable and nervous as the country becomes squeezed more and more by Arab ... Read More
Syrian Christians concerned about instability at Home
By Brooke Anderson The Daily Star 7/7/2011 BEIRUT: As an increasing number of Syrians take to the streets to demand sweeping government reforms, many Syrian ... Read More