From our good friend, Ian Knowles, director of the Bethlehem Icon School, featured on the Palestine News Network.
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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…
ACN UK writes: Ayman Labib was just 17 when he was martyred for his faith. He had refused to cover a cross tattooed on his arm – which Coptic Christians in Egypt…
(AFP) — Dozens of Muslims gathered Thursday outside a Baghdad church where an Islamist assault killed 44 worshippers and two priests three years ago, appealing for Christians to stay in Iraq. Full…
North American Orthodox-Catholic Statement on Christian Suffering in Mideast | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome In 2011 we, the members of the North American Orthodox-Catholic Theological Consultation[1] deplored the devastating losses in…
The head of the Lebanese secret services says negotiations are under way for their release. Meanwhile, the number of parties involved is multiplying Giorgio Bernardelli Rome There has been a lot of…