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…
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Vatican City, April 29, 2014 (Zenit.org) The family members of Jesuit Father Paolo dall’Oglio, abducted in Syria, on July 29, 2013, have made an appeal to the global community. “We call on…
Turkey’s Armenian Christians living near Syrian border are deeply fearful Stephen Starr, Sat, Apr 26, 2014, 01:00 In the hills overlooking the Mediterranean sea’s most easterly shoreline, a group of elderly men sit…
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…
Pascha 20 April 2014, Damascus (issued 25 April 2014) The relics of St Thekla have disappeared After the liberation of Ma’alula from occupation by terrorist groups on Monday, 14 April 2014, Melkite Greek Catholic…
By Catholic News Service on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Melkite Catholic Patriarch Gregoire III Laham and Orthodox Patriarch John X visit the ancient Christian town of Maaloula, Syria, on Easter Sunday (CNS)…
First, there follows an editorial from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), entitled “99 Years of Turkish Genocide”. In the title of this post, we changed this to make it clear that…
Monday, April 21, 2014, By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News BAGHDAD, IRAQ (Worthy News) – Gangs in Baghdad are seizing homes left vacant by Christian families who have been forced to flee from sectarian…
Father Frans van der Lugt was a Jesuit priest who displayed courage, humanity and faith under siege in the Syrian city of Homs. Executed by a single masked gunman, he remained with the people…
By Perry Chiaramonte, Fox News Posted 2014-04-18 Young Christian women are facing a greater risk of being kidnapped by extremists, tortured, and even forced to convert to Islam since the Arab Spring…