Mosul, Iraq’s second city, is now free of Christians for the first time in 1,800 years By Ed West on Thursday, 12 June 2014 War in Iraq has returned with dramatic speed,…
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7 June 2014 – Naharnet Two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria in April 2013 are currently in the northern city of Raqqa and held captive by the Islamic State of Iraq and…
Sunday, June 1, 2014 Arabic original here. French translation here. Press Conference by His Beatitude Patriarch John X : On the Forthcoming Conference “Antiochian Unity: Its Dimensions and Exigencies”, June 26-28, 2014…
His Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II, 123rd Prince Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, enthroned, 29 May 2014 Moran Mor Ignatius Aphrem II (Syriac: ܡܪܢ ܡܪܝ ܐܝܓܢܛܝܘܣ ܐܦܪܝܡ ܬܪܝܢܐ Moran Mor[y]…
Tuesday May 20, 2014 New York On May 13, Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), hosted an ecumenical gathering at the Diocesan Center in…
On 8 May 2014, an historic conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland, where seven senior religious and secular leaders from Syria’s largest Christian churches spoke in a unified voice on the situation in their…
Please note that we post this only for information about a significant statesman’s perspective on Eastern Christianity. Please see the item on line (below) to read various responses. From the report, setting to one side his…
Fr Paolo dall’Oglio SJ lived as a Christian and worshipped among Muslims within the indigenous Syriac monastic tradition 26 April 2014, BBC Magazine A Dutch Catholic priest was shot dead in the…
Pascha 20 April 2014, Damascus (issued 25 April 2014) The relics of St Thekla have disappeared After the liberation of Ma’alula from occupation by terrorist groups on Monday, 14 April 2014, Melkite Greek Catholic…
First, there follows an editorial from the Assyrian International News Agency (AINA), entitled “99 Years of Turkish Genocide”. In the title of this post, we changed this to make it clear that…