by Paul Dakiki The release took place around midnight, hours after the news first broke. The Lebanese and Qatari security chiefs Abbas Ibrahim and Ghanim al- Kubaisi were key mediators. The nuns…
“Christians and Muslims have always lived together. Christians are in their house, they are not strange to us. They were always partisans, like us.” BARCELONA, Spain By Alexandra Di Stefano Pironti Rezan…
Sunday Telegraph. 8 March 2014 Today, the first Sunday of Lent, will see churches crowded across the globe. But here in Syria, where St Paul found his faith, many churches stand empty,…
February 25, 2014 By Theodore Shoebat A nine year old Christian girl in Jordan was captured by Muslims who brutally raped her for 19 days. She was from Iraq and lived in…
March 09, 2014 03:45 PM (Last updated: March 09, 2014 05:45 PM) The Daily Star BEIRUT: Thirteen nuns who were kidnapped last year from the historic town of Maaloula in Syria were…
A wonderworking Athonite icon of the Theotokos, with the epithet “Joy and Consolation”, which was considered lost, was found in a monastery in the region of Ryazan and will be returned to…
At first sight it looks strange that, just as we begin to keep Lent, we mark its first Sunday with a celebration. The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy marks the decision…
The delegation of the Antiochian Patriarchate has participated in the Synaxis of the Primates of the Orthodox Churches and its preparatory meetings held at the Headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople…
Bishop Borys Gudziak says the ouster of President Yanukovych was a step towards a freer country and could lead to a new spiritual reality, but Ukraine’s journey from ‘fear to dignity’ is…
(AFP) — A Turkish court has freed five men accused of torturing and murdering three Christian missionaries in 2007, after the suspects’ time in detention while on trial exceeded new legal limits,…