Tripoli (AFP) — A Libyan security official says the bodies of seven Coptic Christian Egyptians were found in the eastern city of Benghazi, killed with shots to the head while handcuffed. Col.…
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A Christian Syrian family living in Alexandria, Egypt, was barbarically stabbed to death Monday in their home in the al-Ibrahimya neighborhood, Arabic media are reporting. The family consisted of a father, 44,…
For many months, the Society’s website has sought to be a point where news and comment about the crisis for the Church of the Christians of the Middle East is brought together.…
BEIRUT — Maronite Cardinal Beshara Rai said Tuesday efforts by his Church to win the release of a group of nuns kidnapped from the historic Syrian town of Maaloula have hit a…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road…
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…
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 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…
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – The Egyptian security forces in the first days of February carried out a huge operation in the city of Assiut to dismantle an organized crime network that for…