Trabzon (Agenzia Fides) – The Administrative Court of Trabzon rejected the request concerning the transformation of the local museum of Ayasofya into a mosque. As reported by Turkish sources consulted by Fides…
04 November 2013 The 10th Assembly of the World Council of Churches elected eight new presidents today during a closed session at its proceedings in Busan, Republic of Korea. According to the…
LONDON — Two Christian leaders appealed for unity within and across the different faiths and ethnicities of Iraq at an event celebrating the Christians of Kurdistan in London last week. “We don’t…
This is not the Europe that Bangeen imagined. Crammed in a disused carpentry school on the outskirts of Sofia, the 32-year-old Syrian Kurd has fashioned a tent from a white sheet and…
From our good friend, Ian Knowles, director of the Bethlehem Icon School, featured on the Palestine News Network.
GREAT BRITIAN ISSUES NEW STAMPS FOR CHRISTMAS 2013 – ONE DESIGNED BY THE YOUNG COPTIC ARTIST FADI MIKHAIL | ON COPTIC NATIONALISM Fadi Michael, Neo-Coptic iconographer (UK Coptic Icons), at work: And…
Arab unrest sparks vocation crisis for Eastern Catholic Churches
Islamists tear down banners and spray insults against the patriarch, Copts and the Army on its walls. An attempt to storm the building is stopped. The church is a place of pilgrimage…
After coming closer together following meetings between their leaders, Greece and Turkey are at odds over a proposal by Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to re-open the Halki Seminary if Greece…
UNESCO has listed Assyrian as one of the “definitely endangered languages” of the world. It is one of the oldest languages in the Middle East and a dialect of ancient Aramaic. But…