by Leila Fadel, June 18, 2014 About 20 miles outside the embattled northern Iraqi city of Mosul lies the Christian village of Al-Qoush. It’s taken in about 2,000 residents from Mosul who…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Aleppo has been without water again for two days. The repeated suspension of water supplies in recent weeks has become an instrument of pressure in…
Patriarch Kirill warms to his usual theme that Ukraine is not Ukraine but “the southern regions of historic Rus”, meaning a Russian area. You might just as well say that Muscovy is merely…
17 June 2014 12:39 by Abigail Frymann The international community should not intervene in efforts to halt the insurgency by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) militia who have…
BBC – 16 June 2014 Divided between government and rebel halves for nearly two years, the historical Syrian city of Aleppo has suffered devastation on a massive scale. As the first Western…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The Patriarchate of Babylon of the Chaldeans, with a widespread appeal on Sunday 15 June, called on all Chaldean communities in Iraq and the world to “dedicate next…
Posted 2014-06-16 (AFP) — A court in Egypt Sunday jailed three people for life and two to seven years for creating a “terrorist” group and killing four Copts in 2010, a judicial…
Ahram Online, Sunday 15 Jun 2014 A Coptic Christian school teacher has been sentenced to six months in prison on charges of insulting Islam. Demiana Emad, a 23-year-old social studies teacher, was…
16 June, 2014. CAIRO — Masked armed men, suspected to be Islamic militants, kidnapped two Coptic Christians in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in two separate incidents, and clashes between Egyptian security forces and…
Moscow, June 16, Interfax – The country’s first park of plants mentioned in the Bible will be set up near the Holy Trinity Park in the Lefortovo Moscow District. The project will…