Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – The militiamen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni jiahdist formation acting on the scenario of the Syrian conflict, confiscated houses and land…
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NB The Armenian Catholic Church sui iuris is headed not by a prelate in Armenia itself but by patriarch corresponding to the Armenian Apostolic Catholicos based in Lebanon, of the Holy House…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – “In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – “In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their…
▶ Pope Francis prays with Head of the Armenian Church, Karekin II – YouTube Pope Francis prayed with the Patriarch of the Armenian Church, Karekin II, at the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel.…
The references to martyrdom are in part diplomatic. They are to the mass persecution of ethnic and racial minorities in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire, of whom by far the…
Vatican City, May 06, 2014 (Zenit.org) His Holiness Karekin II, head of the of the Catholicate of Etchmiadzin of the Armenian Apostolic Church, will visit Rome from 7 to 9 May to…
But Agreement Between Jihadists and Kurdish Militia May Bring Hope Vatican City, April 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) Attacks have intensified in recent days in the Syrian city of Aleppo due to military retaliation…
Turkey’s Armenian Christians living near Syrian border are deeply fearful Stephen Starr, Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 01:00 In the hills overlooking the Mediterranean sea’s most easterly shoreline, a group of elderly men sit…
Subsequent to an earlier post on these issues, the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia has issued this briefing on the forthcoming Centenary of the Armenian Genocide under the Ottoman Turks: Antelias – 24 April…