A prominent judge in Egypt has called on the government to ensure the equitable treatment of Copts in the country. Judge Amir Ramzi has insisted Egyptian government needs to criminalize discrimination, as…
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Copts in the village of Tarshoub, Beni Suef, Upper Egypt, are experiencing intimidation after extremists attacked them on Monday. Aggressors threw stones at Coptic homes, burned a tuk-tuk truck owned by a…
The USA is a secular state constitutionally separate from the Churches. It speaks out on principle. The United Kingdom is constitutionally and confessionally a Christian State, yet remains doggedly silent, while our…
Baghdad (AINA) — A car bomb exploded outside of St. John Catholic Church in Dora, a Christian neighborhood in south Baghdad, as worshippers were leaving the church after attending Christmas Mass. The…
Exerpt from the Al Monitor article: Most of the displaced Christians fled to safe areas in Damascus, Aleppo and Wadi al-Nasara in the countryside of Homs, as well as to regions on…
(AFP) — After fleeing a rebel assault on the historic Syrian town of Maalula, hundreds of Christian families sheltering in Damascus are preparing for a bleak Christmas away from home. The picturesque…
Middle Eastern Christians wonder, “If they kill us all, would Western Christians do something then?” By Nina Shea During this holy season, Christians turn their thoughts to that first Christmas and…
By Dina al-Shibeeb | Al Arabiya News Wednesday, 25 December 2013 The survival of Aramaic, once the Middle East’s lingua franca, is in jeopardy amid regional turmoil. The United Nations Educational, Scientific…
The Most Revd Dr George Carey has spent the twelve years of his retirement making constant interventions in the press and public debate by turns undermining or stealing the thunder of his…
In spite of the danger, Christian families have sent their children to Church where the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch said a prayer and offered gifts to the children. There follows His Beatitude’s…