Baghdad, Iraq, Jun 17, 2014 / 05:02 pm (CNA/EWTN News) In the midst of advances by Sunni insurgents, Iraq’s remaining Christian community and the country’s majority- Shia population face threats to their…
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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…
By Nuri Kino, Medium.com, June 14, 2014 Today it was difficult to get through to Bagdad by telephone. When finally I got through late in the evening, I spoke with a woman…
14 June 2014 It will be a weekend of remembrance for hundreds of Orthodox Christians in Gloucestershire with special prayer services for Ukraine and Russia. St. John Chrysostom, Greek Orthodox Church, Bentham,…