Apr-9-2014, By Judith Sudilovsky – Catholic News Service JERSULALEM (CNS) — A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in recent weeks as a two-year wave of…
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Stayed With Christians Unable to Evacuate Homs Rome, April 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) A priest helping Christians find shelter in Syria’s Old City of Homs has been murdered. Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van…
Sunday, 06 April 2014, Salahadin, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, (krp.org) President Masoud Barzani received Mr. Louis Raphael Sako, the Chaldean Catholic Patriarch of Babylon today at his office in Salahadin. The meeting…
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…
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…
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…
30 March 2014 BEIRUT: The case of the bishops kidnapped in Syria for almost a year is complicated, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of Lebanon’s General Security, said in comments published Sunday,…
An Islamist attack on a Coptic Church in Cairo on Friday left four people dead. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood held demonttrations across the country in reaction against the official candidate in…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Aleppo was hit by a missle while the faithful were attending mass. The attack damaged the dome and broke…