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One ethnic Armenian kidnapped, another taken prisoner in Syria

January 25, 2013 Featured News

25/1/13 Reports from Syria say at least two ethnic Armenians have been kidnapped or taken prisoner amid a continuing civil war in this Middle Eastern country. According to the National Primacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, a 56-year-old Armenian man was kidnapped from the public transport on his way from Aleppo to Beirut yesterday. An [...]

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Christian clergymen in Syria released a statement

August 28, 2012 News

28/8/2012 The leaders of Syria’s Christian communities have delivered an announcement and criticized the calls for emigration and the warnings against their parishes. Armenian tert.am informs about this referring to the Akhbar-TS. According to the source the clergymen said that only the “language of a constructive dialogue” could be acceptable to the local Christians. They [...]

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Christians Flee from Radical Rebels in Syria

July 26, 2012 Featured News

By Ulrike Putz in Qa, Lebanon 25/7/2012 Thousands of Syrians are fleeing into neighboring Lebanon — not entirely due to fear of the Assad regime. The country’s minority Christian population is suffering under attacks waged by rebel troops. In the Beqaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, Christian families are finding temporary refuge, but they are still [...]

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Nothing safe, nothing sacred: Syrian rebels desecrate Christian churches?

June 30, 2012 Featured News

28/6/2012 Shocking images have surfaced, revealing the alleged desecration of Christian churches in Syria by Western-backed rebels. The pictures, taken by local Christians outraged at the violence, were published by PrisonPlanet.com. In one of the photos a man who is said to be a member of the Free Syrian Army poses in a stolen priest’s [...]

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Syria’s Christians stand by Assad

February 7, 2012 Featured News
A Syrian woman presents a national flag to Syria's Grand Mufti Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun during the divine liturgy held at a Greek Orthodox church in Damascus on January 9, 2012. (Credit: JOSEPH EID/AFP/Getty Images)

7/2/2012 This story originally appeared on Global Post. DAMASCUS, Syria — As the announcement was made Saturday evening that Russia and China had vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the actions of the Syrian regime, some Christians inside the country celebrated. One man from the western Syrian town of Qatana called his relatives [...]

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Syria: Massive Gathering Supports Government, Including Orthodox Leader

October 13, 2011 News

13/10/2011 More than one million Syrian citizens on Wednesday flocked to Saba Bahrat Square, Damascus downtown, in a mass rally under the title ” My Homeland is Syria” to express support to the comprehensive reform program, reported the state news agency SANA. According to SANA, the participants wanted to express gratitude to Russia and China [...]

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