2014-04-09 (Reuters) — The head of Lebanon’s Maronite Christian Church suggested on Wednesday that Syrian refugees should be housed in camps inside Syria, reflecting growing frustration among Lebanese over the burden imposed…
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Stayed With Christians Unable to Evacuate Homs Rome, April 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) A priest helping Christians find shelter in Syria’s Old City of Homs has been murdered. Dutch Jesuit Father Frans van…
by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako The wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have made things worse for their peoples, especially minorities. As Western policies have been a failure, fundamentalism has grown…
Published: April 01, 2014 by Nuri Kino, World Watch Monitor Return to homeland will give Christians ‘hope to remain’ The Syriac Orthodox Church, one of the oldest churches in the world and…
Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, newly elected patriarch of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All the East, has received congratulations and an affirmation of support from the Rev. Dr Olav Fykse…
AP reports, 31 March 2014 (AP) — The Syriac Orthodox Church has elected a new patriarch to lead one of the world’s oldest Christian sects, Lebanon’s national news agency said Monday. The…
30 March 2014 BEIRUT: The case of the bishops kidnapped in Syria for almost a year is complicated, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of Lebanon’s General Security, said in comments published Sunday,…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Armenian Catholic Church of the Holy Trinity in Aleppo was hit by a missle while the faithful were attending mass. The attack damaged the dome and broke…
Michel Constantin – CNEWA’s regional director for Lebanon, Syria and Egypt On Friday 21 March 2014, fighters from the Islamic Front and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front launched a surprise attack from…
By Augin Kurt Haninke, 2014-03-27 Stockholm (AINA) — On the same day I received the news that Patriarch Zakka had passed away in a hospital in Germany (AINA 2014-03-21), I was invited…