Tag: World Watch Monitor

Thousands of churches closed in Rwanda, as Cameroon considers following suit

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- April 12, 2018

Pentecostal churches, like this one in Ethopia’s capital Addis Baba, are mushrooming in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) World Watch Monitor - 12/4/18 Rwanda has ... Read More

Eritrean church leaders still in jail 12 years later

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- May 9, 2016

His Holiness Abune Antonios - Patriarch of Eritrea Haile Naigzhi. World Watch Monitor www.worldwatchmonitor.org - April- May 2016 Although the tiny East African nation of Eritrea ... Read More

Turkey’s Orthodox and Protestants Mend Centuries of Mistrust

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- April 2, 2015

Interior stonework of Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015 (photo: World Watch Monitor). Courtyard of long abandoned Mardin Protestant Church, March 2015 (photo: World Watch Monitor). ... Read More

Promised legal reforms disappoint Turkey’s religious minorities

OCP- October 4, 2013

World Watch Monitor - 4/10/13 The Turkish government's long-awaited "democratisation package" of reform laws announced this week has met with considerable disappointment among Turkey's minority ... Read More

Egypt Finally Permits Another Church Building (But 149 More Still Pending)

OCP- June 13, 2013

World Watch Monitor - 13/6/13 Why did President Mohamed Morsi choose to approve his first church permit now? (WWM) Seventeen years have elapsed since the ... Read More

Syrian opposition leader does not know whereabouts of missing bishops

OCP- May 24, 2013

Nuri Kino, World Watch Monitor 24/5/13 Syrian opposition leader Sabra now says he doesn't know of bishops' whereabouts, after giving more certain account two weeks ... Read More