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…
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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…
Sadad (Agenzia Fides) – “What happened in Sadad is the most serious and biggest massacre of Christians in Syria in the past two years and a half”: this was stressed by Archbishop…
Turkey Returned Some Church Effects After 1920s Genocide
In eastern Turkey, a rare renaissance for Middle East Assyrian Christians – CSMonitor.com
A valuable Eastern Orthodox take on Hallowe’en, for keeping at a Christianised former pagan Celtic feast of All Saints and All Souls, rather than let it slide back into paganism, the occult…