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Turkey’s EU Ministry Welcomes Decision on Assyrian Monastery

March 3, 2014 Featured News

3/3/14 http://www.worldbulletin.net Turkey’s Ministry of EU Affairs has welcomed the return of a piece of land to the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery Foundation, in Turkey’s southeast region. The Ministry called it an “important achievement towards strengthening the fabric of fraternity and realizing the goal of advanced democracy in our country”. The issue over the ownership […]

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Eastern Orthodox Hierarchs to meet in Istanbul

February 27, 2014 Featured News

OCP News Service – 27/2/14 Prakash Varghese(OCP Delegate -UAE,Gulf and Levant Region) The Primates, high ranking Metropolitan, Archbishops and other prelates of all Eastern Orthodox Churches will meet in Istanbul on the invitation of His All Holiness Bartholomew the Ecumenical Patriarch. The Meeting will take place from 6th to 9th of March 2014. The hierarchs […]

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First Enthronement Anniversary of Patriarch Neophyte of Bulgaria

February 26, 2014 Featured News

OCP News Service – 26/2/14 Read Letter of Congratulations from Metropolitan Hilaron of Moscow: Sofia: The Bulgrians celebrated the first Enthronement Anniversary of Patriarch Neophyte on 24th February 2014. He was elected as the Patyriarch st the church council convened on 24 February 2013. Born Simeon Dimitrov, the 67-year-old bishop enjoyed a close relationship with […]

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Syrian Girls Forced to Marry Muslim Militants

February 25, 2014 Featured News

english.farsnews.com - 25/2/15 TEHRAN — Radical militants in Syria’s Raqqa and Aleppo have been forcing Syrian girls to marry them, by pressuring the families, a new report said. According to Arabic language al-Sharq al-Owsat, people in militants-held areas of Syria are facing with a wave of forced marriages pushed by members of the former Al-Qaeda representative […]

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European Christians Fighting With Syria Kurdish Factions

February 23, 2014 Featured News
Kurdish female fighters of the Kurdish People

By Muhieddeen Hamish AL Monitor - 23/2/14 A BBC Arabic report revealed that Christian European fighters are flocking to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish factions in the face of al-Qaeda groups. The report pointed out that the conflict is no longer confined to jihadist groups fighting alongside the Syrian opposition under the banner of Jabhat […]

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Speech of Mor Eustathius Matt Roham at the Funeral of Mor Dionysios Behnam Jejawi

February 20, 2014 Featured News

 Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East OCP News Service – 20/2/14 Syria: The speech of His Eminence Metropolitan Mor Eustathius Matta Roham – Archbishop of Jazirah and Euphrates, on the occasion of the passing of Metropolitan Mor Dionysius Bahnam Jajawi, of three-fold mercies, into the heavenly dwelling places. The speech was delivered at […]

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Christians Fight for Middle East Religious Freedom Watchdog

February 20, 2014 Featured News

By Ryan Mauro Frontpage Magazine - 20/2/14 Global persecution of Christians, especially in the Muslim world, is one of the most overlooked human rights disasters of the 21st century. Christian activists are demanding that the State Department add a new envoy for religious minorities in the Middle East, but their campaign is stymied by those concerned […]

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Iraq Move to Preserve Christian Heritage, Syriac Language

February 20, 2014 Featured News

By Amal Sakr AL Monitor -  20/2/14 Over the past 11 years, the Christian population in Iraq has decreased by more than 75%. It started to decline gradually after 2003, following the overall rise in violence and attacks targeting Christians. Before 2003, there were around 1.5 million Christians in Iraq, and according to recent church figures, […]

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Two Swedish-Assyrians Run for EU Parliament Seats

February 15, 2014 News

15/2/14 Stockholm (AINA) — Two Swedish-Assyrians have been chosen by their parties to run for seats in the European parliament. Isak Betsimon from the Swedish green party Miljopartiet and RobertHanna from the liberal party Folkpartiet have both announced their candidacy. Standing seventh on his party’s list of candidates, Robert Hanna will need to win five percent of the total votes for Folkpartiet and more […]

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Turkish Envoy Says His Biggest Success Was Overturning ‘Genocide Bill’

February 14, 2014 Featured News

By Arzu Cakir Morin http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com - 14/2/14 Turkey’s outgoing ambassador to France, Tahsin Burcuo?lu, has said his greatest success in his career was the decision of the French Constitutional Court to overturn a bill criminalizing the denial of genocide. In his “farewell interview” to daily Hürriyet in Paris, Burcuo?lu, a 41-year-old diplomat, spoke candidly about the bill that […]

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Christian City in Syria Attacked By “Freedom Fighters”

February 13, 2014 Featured News

By Brad Hoff http://www.globalresearch.ca 13/2/14 This past Thursday, February 6, monasteries and churches in the ancient Christian city of Saidnaya held special celebrations for the feast of St. Elian — a Syrian saint martyred in Homs in the third century. These celebrations took place despite the village being under constant rebel mortar attack — attacks […]

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OCP Icon of St Gregorious of Parumala Certified Authentic

February 11, 2014 Featured News
The OCP Icon of St Gregorious of Parumala

OCP News Service Kisha D Dorado ( Director- Dept. of Church Research & Studies) – 11/2/14 Global: The OCP icon of St Gregorious of Parumala has been certified as authentic by the expert panel of Iconographers. It is one of the first ever icon written on the first canonized Indian Saint. It was prepared by […]

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Dialogue and peace – the speech by Patriarch Bartholomew at the 17th Eurasian Economic Summit

February 9, 2014 Featured News

Patriarch Bartholomew ISTANBUL – Hürriyet Daily News 9/2/14 It is once again an honor to address the Eurasian Economic Summit, which is organized each year by the esteemed Marmara Group and is today considering the topic of “Culture and Ecological Dialogue.” Centuries ago, a Christian mystic declared: “Acquire inward peace, and thousands around you will […]

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OCP Secretariat Express high concerns over Indian Orthodox – Roman Catholic Agreement on Sharing Sacraments

February 4, 2014 Featured News

OCP News Service – February 2014 Read News item about agreement in Malayalam Language: DIALOGUE & EFFORTS FOR UNITY BETWEEN THE TWO FAMILIES OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH: The Leaning Cross Church – The Historic Monument of Orthodox Revolt against Roman Catholic and Western Imperial Domination: “ By the Father, Son and Holy Ghost that henceforth […]

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Directive From History Drives Discrimination Against Christians in the Middle East

February 4, 2014 Featured News

Heritage Daily - 2/4/14 Christian’s worshipers in parts of the Middle East, especially Syria are experiencing discrimination driven by a directive issued over 1300 years ago. The minority Christian population are been told by extremist groups to convert to Islam, pay a tribute to the Muslim rulers, or leave the land that they have occupied for […]

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OCP Delegation receives Oriental Orthodox Prelates

February 2, 2014 Featured News

1/2/14 OCP News Service Report by Soney Cherian  Also read: Archbishop Petros of Axum welcomes proposal for the second Addis Ababa Conference:  Fr Dr Jossi Jacob received historic document from Greek Orthodox Archbishop on behalf of Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE: OCP Secretary Meets Patriarch Abune Mathias of Ethiopia:  India/Kerala: On the 1st of February 2014, Orthodoxy […]

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The War on Christians in the Middle East

January 31, 2014 Featured News

Michael Coren catholicworldreport- 31/1/14 In the summer of 2012, I interviewed an Evangelical minister and activist on my television show in Canada. I’ve hosted this nightly current affairs program for almost three years now, and I try to discuss the international persecution of Christians, especially within Islamic countries, whenever I can. Tragically, there is never a […]

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Fordham University Confers an Honorary Doctorate to Archbishop Anastasios of Albania

January 31, 2014 Featured News

  31/1/14 NEW YORK – Fordham University conferred yesterday, January 28, 2014, an honorary doctorate degree of Humane Letters, the highest honor of the University, to His Beatitude Archbishop Anastasios of Tirana, Durrës and All Albania, in an official ceremony at Fordham’s University Church. Following the conferral, His Beatitude delivered the “Orthodoxy in America Lecture” on the topic Sharing the Good News in […]

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Syria’s Assyrian Christians Find Refuge With Turkish Neighbours

January 28, 2014 Featured News

By Jane Burgess http://themedialine.org - 28/1/14 MIDYAT, Turkey — Miydat’s Assyrian Orthodox community is still encumbered with festive cookies and candied nuts from their Christmas festivities. In every home, tables groan with remnants from the recent celebrations, which for many of Midyat’s residents found themselves in situations far safer than the previous holiday spent in Syria. Often […]

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Miracle of Holy Theotokos in the Christian town of Saidnaya – Exclusive

January 26, 2014 Featured News

Prakash Varghese (OCP Delegate – UAE, Gulf & Levant Region) OCP News Service – Exclusive January 26/01/2014 More about  Saidnaya: Syria/Saidnaya: A miracle by the Holy Theotokos was reported at one of the  monasteries of Saidnaya.  This town is one of  the most famous Christian inhabited and pilgrimage places in the war torn Syria. The incident […]

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Christians and Kurds Form Coalition in Syria

January 25, 2014 News

Ann Buwalda Jubilee Campaign - January 2014 Jubilee Campaign USA and Jubilee Campaign Netherlands are jointly announcing with Law & Liberty Trust the alliance of the Syriacs and Kurds of Syria for the strategic purpose of representing both minorities at the negotiation table in Geneva. We are also revealing the new initiative for the Christian Coalition for Syria which will […]

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