Posted 2014-04-04 (AFP) As Iraq suffers its worst violence in years, gangs claiming ties to powerful militias have been commandeering empty homes in Baghdad with little official sanction, victims and rights groups…
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Vatican City, April 04, 2014 (Zenit.org) The Holy Father sent a message this morning to the new Syrian-Orthodox Patriarch, Ingnatius Aphrem II, congratulating him on his election as the supreme head of…
by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako The wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have made things worse for their peoples, especially minorities. As Western policies have been a failure, fundamentalism has grown…
Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) – The way and instrumental and misleading tones with which certain Western circles launch warnings concerning the persecution suffered by Christians in the Middle East responds to political calculations…
Scroll down for the NCR interview. It always bears repeating that Metropolitan Hilarion is not speaking objectively, or in a spirit of dialogue. His job consists in: skillfully advancing the interests of the Patriarchal…
Published: April 01, 2014 by Nuri Kino, World Watch Monitor Return to homeland will give Christians ‘hope to remain’ The Syriac Orthodox Church, one of the oldest churches in the world and…
Author Bahar KilicgedikPosted April 1, 2014 Translator(s)Sibel Utku Bila Chaldeans who fled from Turkey to France amid oppression in the wake of the military coup on Sept. 12, 1980, have launched a legal process…
By Cheryl K. Chumley The Washington Times, Wednesday, April 2, 2014 A Coptic Christian woman, 25, was pulled from her car and brutally beaten and stabbed to death by a mob of…
Posted 2014-04-01 An ornate mosaic floor from a Byzantine monastery has been found in Israel’s northern Negev desert. Colourful birds, leaves and floral motifs adorn the Byzantine mosaic and inscriptions in both…
Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, newly elected patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, has received congratulations and an affirmation of support from the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse…