Please read here the document issued by Patriarch Gregorios III of which the text is given below. Call for Solidarity and Prayer (On the Kidnapping of Metropolitan Paul and Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna) …
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Holy Week Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Patriarch John X “We are being surrounded by much pain and suffering. Throughout our Antiochian lands, dangers threaten our homes, and political conflicts storm our…
Statement by COOC President on kidnapped Bishops – The British Orthodox Church
Joint Communique on the Abduction of Bishop Paul and Bishop John | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Please continue to pray for Archbishops Gregorios and Paul of Aleppo. Release Reports False | Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese
Anti-Coptic sectarianism: Hope turned into despair | Egypt Independent
The Diary of a Parish Priest of Aleppo | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome
We abandon Christians in the East at our Peril – Robin Harris in Standpoint Magazine (UK) April 2013
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/april-13-we-abandon-christians-in-the-east-at-our-peril-robin-harris-egypt-copts-iraq When Margaret Thatcher negotiated with Communists about human rights, she had a self-imposed rule. It was to deliver the same message in private as in public. That was, and is, unusual.…
Two kidnapped Syrian bishops freed: church official Thanks for all your prayers. Please remember the priest who was killed in the abduction, Mor Gregorious’ driver – may his memory be eternal. NB…
Archbishop Boulos Yazigi and Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim Please pray for Archbishop Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim and Archbishop Boulos (Paul), who are reported kidnapped by armed insurgents in northern Syria. According to MalankaraSyriacVoice relaying…