Tag: UN
450,000 CHRISTIANS FLEE ATTACKS IN THE CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
December 2013 The United Nations is demanding immediate support for the Central African Republic (CAR) during a very difficult period. Apparently over 450,000 people have ... Read More
Eritreas Human Right Abuses Condemned
By Press Release Opendoors, Open Doors - November 2013 Last week we reported the death of Wehazit Berhane Debesai who succumbed to pneumonia in an ... Read More
Priests Are Responsible for Ending Violence Against Women, Says Ethiopian Church
UN Women - November 2013 “As a priest, people listen to me and that gives me a position to speak out against gender-based violence,” says ... Read More
Syrian Islamists raid Aramaic-speaking Christian town of Sednaya: report
Jessica Chasmar -The Washington Times September 2013 Weeks after al-Qaeda-linked rebels seized the Christian town of Maaloula in northwest Syria, they now have captured Sednaya, an ... Read More
Patriarch Irinej addresses UN at the invitation of Jeremic
8/9/13 At the initiative of the President of General Assembly of United Nations Vuk Jeremic "High Level Forum on the Culture of Peace" to be ... Read More
Serbian Orthodox patriarch to address UN on Friday
Tanjug - 5/9/13 BELGRADE -- Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej will speak at the UN in New York on September 6 at the invitation of UN ... Read More
Lonegan: Solve Syrian conflict with peace, not missiles
Archbishop Cyril Aphrem Karim, left, of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch for the Eastern United States of America, and U.S. Senate candidate Steve Lonegan ... Read More
Church body condemns chemical weapons use in Syria
Mark Caplin - 28/8/13 The United Nations must fulfil its responsibility to protect the people of Syria from gross human rights violations, the World Council ... Read More
UN officials visit the Metropolis of Moldova
14/5/13 His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir had a meeting this afternoon with Ms. Nicola Harrington Buhay, UN Resident Coordinator and Permanent Representatives of the UNDP in ... Read More
Prelate says Syrian Christians face terrible choice: ‘die or leave’
15/4/13 Archbishop Samir Nassar, the Maronite Catholic archbishop of Damascus, has told the Fides news agency that Syria’s Christians “must choose between two bitter chalices: ... Read More
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In Syria, some 300,000 Christian refugees also fleeing from UN camps
04/04/2013 In Syria, Christians are neutral and do not want to be used for photo ops. The United Nations, however, automatically registers them as members ... Read More
Serbia marks 14th anniversary of NATO bombing
A heating plant in New Belgrade is seen after being hit by NATO missiles (Tanjug, file) A destroyed bridge in Novi Sad (Tanjug, file) The ... Read More
Libya: Security of Christian Communities ‘Precarious’ in Libya – Archbishop
15/3/13 Tripoli — Various Christian communities in Libya, as well as some Muslim groups, have been feeling increasingly under pressure from hardline Islamist groups since ... Read More
Religious divides deepen in Syria
Andreas Gorzewski - 24/2/13 The fronts in the Syrian conflict are increasingly hardening along religious lines. But the prospects for the Christian, Druze and Alawite ... Read More
Holy Land: Christian leaders support Palestine’s membership of UN
20/1/2012 A hundred Christian community leaders in the Holy Land haved signed the following letter to European countries, calling for support for Palestine’s membership in ... Read More
Is there hope at last for Apostolos Andreas?
Poly Pantelides - 12/11/2012 SUCCESSIVE plans to renovate Apostolos Andreas Monastery in occupied Karpasia date back years but have all stumbled over who is to ... Read More
CYPRUS: Saint Andreas monastery held hostage to time
5/11/2012 The road leading to the monastery of Saint Andreas has been abandoned to the elements since the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. In the ... Read More
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon visits Decani Monastery and Cathedral church of St. George in Prizren
28/7/2012 Serbian Orthodox Church Serbian Province of Kosovo and Metohia Decani - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon with his spouse and associates visited on Tuesday, ... Read More
President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly visits St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity and Moscow Theological Academy
On May 1, 2012, St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Holy Trinity and the Moscow Theological Academy had the honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz ... Read More
UN expert wants access to Cyprus’ religious sites
5/4/2012 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) -- A U.N. expert says more needs to be done to allow worshippers free and unfettered access to religious sites on ... Read More
Syria Unrest claims a Christian priest in Hama & more Casualties
Omar al-Shaar|Dp-news 26/1/2012 HAMA- International and local press also reported Wednesday too that Christian priest from the Greek Orthodox Church, the Rev. Basilious Nasser, was ... Read More