June 16-21 2014 “Strengthened by the Holy Spirit that sustains our weaknesses, we support each other … In order to be forever salt and leaven in this land of ours,” says Gregorios III.…
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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…
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…
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…