How can we live our faith in a time of great difficulty? What can we do for those who are persecuted because of their faith? To ask this question means above all…
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Letter from the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs, Hama and dependencies about the situation in Sadad, Syria 29/10/2013Top of Form Brothers May the peace of the Lord be with you! I should like…
More on the massacre of innocent, non-combatant Christians in Sadad: Syria – Death and destruction in a Christian town – Aid to the Church in Need
Bodies of Christian Family Discovered in a Syrian Well
The bodies of 30 Christian civilians, including women and children, killed by Islamist militias, have been found in two separate mass graves, in the city of Sadad. The number of Christian civilians…
Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – Archimandrite Naaman Rawik, Greek Catholic priest of Raqqa and Tabqa – city in northern Syria for months in the hands of anti -Assad militias – has found refuge…
LONDON — Two Christian leaders appealed for unity within and across the different faiths and ethnicities of Iraq at an event celebrating the Christians of Kurdistan in London last week. “We don’t…
Islamists tear down banners and spray insults against the patriarch, Copts and the Army on its walls. An attempt to storm the building is stopped. The church is a place of pilgrimage…
ACN UK writes: Ayman Labib was just 17 when he was martyred for his faith. He had refused to cover a cross tattooed on his arm – which Coptic Christians in Egypt…
(AFP) — Dozens of Muslims gathered Thursday outside a Baghdad church where an Islamist assault killed 44 worshippers and two priests three years ago, appealing for Christians to stay in Iraq. Full…