This list has been assembled by the Patriarchate after exhaustive research and accompanies Patriarch Gregorios’ plea (see the following post): “Why attack places of worship?” To this list, His Beatitude adds this…
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The Syrian crisis is severely affecting various sectors of civilian life and the number of victims of this “world” war is growing day by day. In this war against Syria the nature…
(Milan) – In early December the United States and Britain announced that they are suspending all non-lethal aid to opposition forces in northern Syria due to the infiltration of Islamist combat forces…
Rome, December 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) Ann Schneible The increase in sectarian violence against Egypt’s Christian communities endangers not only the country’s ancient Christian heritage, but also the cultural, social and political dimensions…
Damascus, December 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan Earlier this month, British parliamentarians spoke passionately about the lack of concern exhibited by the Foreign Office on behalf of persecuted Christians.…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by Islamist militants that terrorize the population, threaten a massacre and have imposed…
Warning that a Middle East empty of Christians would be “just like the Taliban,” Iraq’s most senior Catholic leader pointedly called on the West to show greater concern for suffering Christians in…
Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Christians have dwindled from more than a million to as little as 200,000. Colin Freeman reports on attempts to stem the exodus from Iraq’s…
Interview on Vatican Insider Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected Patriarch of Alexandria’s Coptic Catholics last January. Since then there have been unexpected surprises of all kinds both in Egypt and throughout the…
Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be…