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…
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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…
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…
June 12, 2014. BELGRADE – The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Holy Synod of Bishops presented on Thursday Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko with the medal of St Sava, while Patriarch Irinej said Serbia…
Arab American News, News Report, Natasha Dado, Posted: Jun 13, 2014 DETROIT — There is not much local Iraqis can do to help the victims of violence in their homeland except pray…
13 June 2014 – Meeting in Armenia, 11-12 June 2014 Church leaders and representatives from Syria, the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), the World Council of Churches (WCC), the Mother See…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “Now in Mosul jihadist militants control the city and the situation is calm. But we do not know who they are and what they want to do now”.…
St. Etchmiadzin Armenian church following attacks by ISIS. AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, also known as Da’esh and ISIL) yesterday took control of Mosul, Iraq’s second largest…