2014-05-01 (AFP) The trial will take place in Minya where a judge triggered a global outcry for sentencing to death 683 alleged Islamists after a session that lasted just 10 minutes on…
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April/29/2014 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is planning to perform prayers at Istanbul’s historic Hagia Sophia, along with the leaders of other Islamic countries, according to daily Radikal. The ruling Justice…
Jihadist Group Accuses Them of Fighting Against Muslims Damascus, April 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) A jihadist group fighting both the Syrian government and other Islamist organisations has crucified two prisoners in the country…
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…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The attacks of terrorism that bloodied the weeks leading up to the elections in Iraq, currently being held today Wednesday, April 30, did not stop even in open…
Najwan Al Ashol, Translated from Al Araby Al Jadid 29 April, 2014 The January 25th Revolution in 2011 represented a real challenge to the structure of tyranny in Egypt at all levels,…
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, ACN Local Catholic leaders have expressed their hopes and concerns for the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary elections scheduled for Wednesday, April 30th, including the hope that Iraq might become…
Fr Paolo dall’Oglio SJ lived as a Christian and worshipped among Muslims within the indigenous Syriac monastic tradition 26 April 2014, BBC Magazine A Dutch Catholic priest was shot dead in the…
2014-04-26 Kirkuk (AFP) — Iraq’s dwindling Christian community faces “disaster,” and if no action is taken they will number just a few thousand in a decade, the country’s most senior church leader…
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…