According to a local bishop, numerous conversions of Muslims to Christianity occur every year in Lebanon, but the true number is unknown because of the risk of social stigma and persecution. “Most…
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by Joseph Mahmoud Majid Al- Nasrawi met the Chaldean Patriarch and the new Bishop Habib Hormuz Al-Nofal. Governor promises land and work for those who return to the city. Mar Sako confirms…
AINA News The U.S. House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations held a hearing today on “The Worldwide Persecution of Christians.” The hearing was chaired by…
Saturday, February 08, 2014 By Hasan Ay The Turkish government has returned 42 acres of land in Istanbul’s Zeytinburnu district to the Armenian community, some 40 years after it was seized. The…
DOHA, 9 February: A group of nuns from the historic Christian-majority town of Maalula in Syria appeared in a new video broadcast by the Qatar-based satellite news channel Al-Jazeera on Sunday. The…
Just before Christmas, thanks to His Beatitude the Melkite Greek-Catholic Patriarch, Gregorios III Laham, in Damascus, we were able to post a List of the Churches and Church Institutions so far destroyed in Syria.…
By Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom This essay is an excerpt from the Hoover Press book Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity. The…
Mar Louis Raphael Sako meets Sheikh Rafi Taha Al-Rifai in Sulayamaniyya, Iraqi Kurdistan. A “courtesy” visit to strengthen friendly relations between religious leaders and communities. His Beatitude speaks of the plight of…
It is once again an honor to address the Eurasian Economic Summit, which is organized each year by the esteemed Marmara Group and is today considering the topic of “Culture and Ecological…
By Sonja Corbitt, http://www.catholic.org, Posted 2014-02-07 02:53 GMT NASHVILLE, TN — “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream” (Amos 5:24). Although it has fallen largely on deaf…