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H.B. THEOPHILOS III PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM VISITED AL-ZAITARI REFUGEE CAMP IN JORDAN

August 12, 2012 Featured News

On Monday, August 6, 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all of Palestine and Jordan, and President of the Middle East Council of Churches for the Orthodox Family, expressed his concern for and acted out of what he called a ”moral duty” by making a [...]

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Coptic Christians celebrate Easter without Pope Shenouda

April 17, 2012 Featured News
Pope Shenouda’s III died on March 17, leaving the Coptic community without its well-loved and active leader. (Reuters)

By CLAIRE READ AL ARABIYA CAIRO 17/4/2012 Coptic Christians celebrate gathered to celebrate Easter but this year’s celebrations have been more subdued out of respect for Pope Shenouda’s III passing. Easter Sunday festivities were canceled and the Saturday night vigil from the Coptic cathedral was not projected in the streets outside the other churches of [...]

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Christians participated in all revolution activities: Syrian opposition figure

February 4, 2012 Featured News
George Sabra is a member of the general secretariat and spokesman for the National Syrian Council (NSC). (Al Arabiya)

By AL ARABIYA 3/2/2012 There is an impression that Syrian Christians are taking the side of the ruling regime in Syria, George Sabra, member of the general secretariat and spokesman for the National Syrian Council (NSC), said during a recent appearance on “Noqtat Nizam” (Point of Order), aired by Al Arabiya on Friday. But Sabra [...]

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Patriarch Hazim: AL Sanctions against Syria Unprecedented, Syrians Independent for Their Livelihood

December 1, 2011 Featured News

1/12/2011 Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim of Antioch and All the East for Greek Orthodox stressed Wednesday that the Arab League (AL) sanctions on Syria will not affect the Syrian people who are not dependent on others in the provision of their basic needs and for their means of livelihood. “I haven’t heard that the Arab [...]

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Archbishop Hanna: Arab League Should Correct Its Mistake against Syria

November 18, 2011 Featured News

17/11/2011 OCCUPIED JERUSALM, (SANA)- Archbishop of the Sebaste Roman Orthodox Church, Atallah Hanna, stressed the sinister conspiracy hatched against Syria targets its principled and supportive stances towards the Palestinian Cause. “When Syria is targeted, Palestine is targeted and when Damascus is targeted it is as if Jerusalem is targeted, ” said Archbishop Hanna in an [...]

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Why don’t you extend hands to each other?

October 24, 2011 News

MEHMET ALİ BİRAND 21/10/2011 mab@hurriyet.com.tr I listened to the prime minister while I was in Ankara on Thursday. He complained about the opposition. Also about the media. “Why can they not be constructive? Why are they always destructive?” he said. He spoke as if he had erased the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Whereas he [...]

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Egyptian priest says Coptic church was not attacked, admits to building violations

October 13, 2011 News

12/10/2011 By AL ARABIYA DUBA While Egyptians, Muslims and Christians alike, are trying to fathom the tragedy that took place Sunday, when 25 people were killed in bloody clashes following protests by Copts against the demolition of a church in the south of the country, a statement made by a prominent monk has left people [...]

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE EMIR OF THE STATE OF QATAR HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI

February 26, 2011 News

02/23/2011 On 23 February 2011, His Holiness Aram I met with the Emir. Also attending the meeting were: Vice-Prime Minister Abdullah Attieh of Qatar, the members of the delegation of the Catholicos – Bishop Shahe Panossian, MP. Hagop Pakradouni and Rev. Mesrob Sarkissian – and the Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar, Hassan Saad. The Catholicos …

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Arab press angered by Coptic Church Blast

January 4, 2011 Featured News

3/1/2011 The Egyptian press has reacted angrily to the suicide bombing that targeted a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s Day, with several papers saying it was an attack on all Egyptians, not just Christians. The state and opposition press called on their compatriots to unite in the face of terrorism but two papers [...]

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