(Milan) – In early December the United States and Britain announced that they are suspending all non-lethal aid to opposition forces in northern Syria due to the infiltration of Islamist combat forces…
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Damascus, December 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan Earlier this month, British parliamentarians spoke passionately about the lack of concern exhibited by the Foreign Office on behalf of persecuted Christians.…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by Islamist militants that terrorize the population, threaten a massacre and have imposed…
Over 80 civilians in a town northwest of the Syrian capital of Damascus have been executed by Islamist rebels, sources within the Syrian military told RT. Many others were kidnapped to be…
UNESCO’s Director-General warned Friday of illegal archeological excavations across war-torn Syria, saying the United Nations’ cultural, education and science entity has called on auction houses and museums to beware. Amid the widespread…
Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem and Jordan condemned the kidnapping 12 nuns from the monastery of St. Takla in Maaloula, Syria, adding that the goal of this crime is to harass Christians…
Cardinal Mar Bechara el-Rahi, the Maronite Patriarch of Lebanon, expressed concern about involving Christians in Syrian events, especially in the wake of the kidnapping of nuns from the St. Takla nunnery in…
ARCHBISHOP BOULOS YAZIGI – Greek Orthodox ARCHBISHOP YOHANNA IBRAHIM – Syrian Orthodox FR MICHEL KAYGAL – Armenian Catholic FR MAHER MAHFOUZ – Greek Orthodox FR PAOLO DALL’OGLIO – Italian Jesuit THE TWELVE…
Syria, at this Christmas time, resembles very much, the crib: an opened crib, with no doors, cold, deprived and extremely poor.. The Child Jesus doesn’t lack companions in Syria… Thousands of children…
“I demand the immediate release of the nuns, who have done no harm to anyone.” These were the words of a local Catholic leader in Syria following the abduction of nuns from…