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Protesters mark Armenian Genocide, demand compensation

April 25, 2013 Featured News

Stephen Dockery The Daily Star 24/4/13 BEIRUT: Thousands marched through Beirut Wednesday to call on Turkey to recognize the genocide that involved the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians nearly a century ago. Draped in the colors of the Armenian flag – red, blue and orange – over 10,000 people marched across east Beirut to Martyrs’ Square in Downtown. [...]

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Syria’s Christian refugees seeking European future

April 19, 2013 Featured News

18/4/13 Christian refugees from Syria have not been in Lebanon for very long. Or at least, you don’t hear much from them, as many are averse to reporters. Off the record, one refugee explained that Syrian Christians are often accused of bias in favor of President Bashar al-Assad. Walid Hasbani, one such refugee, said that [...]

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In Syria, some 300,000 Christian refugees also fleeing from UN camps

April 6, 2013 Featured News

04/04/2013 In Syria, Christians are neutral and do not want to be used for photo ops. The United Nations, however, automatically registers them as members of the opposition. The head of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA) appeals on behalf of 1,200 families currently helped only by the Church and generous families. Beirut (AsiaNews) [...]

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Fear of Islamic Extremism Brings Eastern Churches Closer

March 8, 2013 Featured News

By: Nasser Chararah for Al-Monitor Lebanon Pulse 8/3/13 Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Bechara Boutros al-Rahi last month ended a four-day visit to Moscow on the invitation of Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill I. The meeting is significant and constitutes an advanced step taken by Rahi to bring closer Eastern churches of various doctrines. This approach is supported by the Kremlin [...]

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Religious divides deepen in Syria

February 24, 2013 Featured News

Andreas Gorzewski  – 24/2/13 The fronts in the Syrian conflict are increasingly hardening along religious lines. But the prospects for the Christian, Druze and Alawite minorities are all very different. The various religious communities in Syria lived together peacefully for decades. But the ongoing conflict in the country is tearing ever deeper divides between the [...]

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Patriarch John X of Antioch’s enthronement celebrations in Beirut

February 22, 2013 News

February 17, 2013 – the Russian Orthodox Church’s delegation led by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, took part in the celebrations on the occasion of the enthronement of His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of the Great Antioch of All the East. The celebrations began with the [...]

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Patrairch Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas decorated with Gold Medal of University of Islamic

January 23, 2013 Featured News

23/1/13 - Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East BEIRUT/LEBANON: Holy Father was decorated with Gold medal of University of Islamic Civilization on 20th January 2013 by Prof. Sheikh Ahmad Mukhlis founding president of the Islamic Civilization Open University and Prof. Suhail Qasha President of the Supreme Council for Research and Studies. This is the recognition of [...]

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Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon, Catholicos Aram I, Confer on Syria

January 18, 2013 News

15/1/13 This morning, Iran’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ghandafar Abadi paid a visit to Antelias and briefed Catholicos Aram I about Iran’s conceptualization of how to end the conflict in Syria. After listening to Ambassador Apat, Catholicos Aram I stressed that a political resolution must be found, that Syria must remain free of foreign intervention, and [...]

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Orthodox plan heats up electoral law debate

January 10, 2013 News
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By Hussein Dakroub The Daily Star 10/1/13 BEIRUT: Lawmakers from the Hezbollah-led March 8 alliance and the rival March 14 coalition will resume their discussions on a new electoral law Wednesday after a day of deliberations held in a positive atmosphere. However, the rival MPs, part of a parliamentary subcommittee exploring a new election law [...]

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Syrian conflict could worsen Christian exodus

January 5, 2013 Featured News
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5/1/13 Damascus, Syria, Jan 4, 2013 / 02:03 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Fighting in Syria continues to put pressure on the minority Christian population, leading to fears that more Syrians will join the many Christians who have already left the Middle East. Journalist Nasir Habish told Vatican Radio that Syria’s Christians are among those most affected [...]

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Audeh Calls on State to Treat People Equally

January 4, 2013 News

Naharnet Newsdesk January 2013 Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Beirut Elias Audeh stressed on Tuesday that Lebanon will not regain its reputation except with the efforts undertaken by its honorable citizens. “The people are equal before God even if their culture or social levels are different,” Audeh said during New Year’s mass. He called on the [...]

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In Lebanon, Moscow Supports Political Christian Orthodoxy

December 25, 2012 Featured News

Nasser Chararah 25/12/12 The origins of the Russian embassy building in Beirut stretch back to the beginning of the last century. It became a Russian property when it was taken over by a group of ecumenical missionaries. However, it was closed at the beginning of the First World War because the Ottoman Empire, which was [...]

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A new spokesman

December 18, 2012 News

18/12/12 AT A time when things are looking dire for Christians in the Middle East, they have acquired an articulate new spokesman who is also relatively young by the standards of clerical greybeards. At a gathering in Lebanon on Monday, the Orthodox Christians bishops with jurisdiction over Syria, Lebanon and much of the Arab Christian [...]

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Challenge of Syria awaits next Greek Orthodox patriarch

December 14, 2012 News

  Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star – 14/12/12 BEIRUT: Confronting the challenges facing Syrian and Lebanese Christians will top the agenda of the new Greek Orthodox patriarch, who will be elected this month to succeed Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim. At least 18 bishops from Greek Orthodox archbishoprics around the world will meet at the Balamand [...]

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The plight of Middle East Christians took me back to Lebanon

December 11, 2012 Featured News

Terry Waite – 11/12/12 Last week I returned to Lebanon, a quarter of a century after being kidnapped and held captive for almost five years, most of the time chained to a wall and denied many basic comforts. You might think such a trip foolhardy, but the crisis developing there desperately needs attention. I had been [...]

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Patriarch Ignatius Hazim laid to rest in Damascus

December 10, 2012 Featured News

  The Daily Star -10/12/2012 BEIRUT: Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Levant and Antioch Ignatius IV Hazim’s body was taken to Damascus Sunday, after divine liturgy  at Beirut’s St. Nicolas Cathedral. In the Syrian capital, hundreds of faithful flocked to the Mariamite Cathedral to bid farewell to the man who served as patriarch for 33 years. Hazim, who was born in the Hama [...]

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Lebanon Bids Farewell to Patriarch Hazim

December 9, 2012 Featured News

9/12/2012 Lebanon bid farewell Sunday in a popular Mass at St. Nicolas Church the late Greek Orthodox Patriarch of the Levant and Antioch Ignatius IV Hazim, who died at a Beirut hospital Wednesday morning a day after suffering a stroke. Hundreds attended the funeral service at the Ashrafieh church in honor of the 92-years old [...]

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Metropolitan Esper named Locum Tenens

December 8, 2012 Featured News

The Daily Star 8/12/12 BEIRUT: Metropolitan Saba Esper was elected Friday as temporary successor to the late Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim. The appointment came during a meeting at Balamand monastery in Koura, North Lebanon. Esper currently serves as the metropolitan of three southern provinces of Syria: Hawran, Jabal al-Arab and the Golan. Hazim, [...]

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Lebanese leaders offer condolences over patriarch’s death

December 7, 2012 Featured News

6/12/2012 Lebanese President Michel Suleiman extended his condolences for the death of Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim, the National News Agency reported. “His death is not only a loss for his community, but also for Lebanon and the Arabs. He reflected wisdom and courage and was an advocate of dialogue,” Suleiman was quoted as [...]

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Patriarch Ignatius Hazim to be buried at Mariameh Cathedral and Patriarchate Cemetery in Damascus

December 6, 2012 Featured News

6/12/2012 Patriarch Ignatius Hazim’s funeral will be held Sunday at 12 p.m at Mariameh Cathedral and Patriarchate Cemetery, Damascus.  Services will also be held at St Nicholas Church in Beirut. The new acting Patriarch will be nominated on Thursday. Below are listed scheduled events in Lebanon and Syria as per the information generated by the  Antiochian Orthodox [...]

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His Beatitude Ignatius IV (1920-2012) – Biography

December 5, 2012 Featured News

5/12/2012 Memory Eternal!!! His Beatitude Ignatius IV (1920-2012), Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, fell asleep in the Lord today, December 5th, 2012, at St. George Orthodox Hospital in Beirut Lebanon, after having suffered a stroke earlier this week.  Biography His Beatitude Patriarch Ignatius IV (Hazim) of Antioch and All the East was born in 1920 in [...]

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Suffering of Syrian Christians at the hands of rebel groups in Syria

November 11, 2012 Featured News

BEATRIZ SCHIAVA 12/11/2012 Thursday, November 8. Agenzia Fidesinformed today that the Catholic Church is trying to rescue ten Christians who were abducted by an armed group as they were traveling from Aleppo to Beirut. Jesuit Father Murad Abi Seif, explained that “among the rebels there are many factions and groups, which complicates things.” Rebels and terrorist groups are [...]

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The plight of Syria’s Christians: ‘We left Homs because they were trying to kill us’

November 2, 2012 News

KIM SENGUPTA AL-QAA, LEBANON 2/11/2012 In the civil war, they have tried to stay neutral. But despite this, many are now facing persecution and death. The red Mitsubishi Lancer GT with “go faster” stripes was a source of great pride to Hamlig Bedrosian. It was the only one of its kind in the city, pointed [...]

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Al-Akhbar: Hezbollah supports Orthodox electoral proposal

October 22, 2012 News

October 2012 A “well-informed” source told a Lebanese daily that the Shiite party Hezbollah informed its Christian ally, the Free Patriotic Movement, that its members in parliament will vote for the Orthodox gathering’s electoral proposal if it is put up for a vote. The source told Al-Akhbar newspaper in remarks published on Monday that both [...]

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Statement of the Holy Synod of the Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch

September 30, 2012 Featured News

September 10 – 14, 2012 St. Jacob Baradeus Convent, Atchaneh, Lebanon The Holy Synod, presided by His Holiness Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of the Holy See of Antioch and all the East, Supreme Head of the Universal Syrian Orthodox Church in the World, convened at St. Jacob Baradeus’ Convent in Atchaneh-Bikfaya, Lebanon, from [...]

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