https://mospat.ru/en/2016/02/12/news128124/ On 11 February 2016, His Beatitude Patriarch Béchara Al-Raï of the Maronite Church received Hegumen Arseniy (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. The meeting took place at the residence of the Maronite patriarchs in Bkerke, Lebanon. The participants in the meeting…
Glenn Beck was furious on Friday when Johnnie Moore, author of “Defying ISIS: Preserving Christianity in its Place of Birth and in Your Own Backyard,” said that victims of Middle East persecution are being denied entry to the United States. Most of the victims being denied are Christian, Moore said, even though Christianity is at…
IDC Remembers Victims of the Simele Massacre On August 6, 2015 in Washington DC, In Defense of Christians (IDC) President Toufic Baaklini made the following statement: “IDC remembers the Simele Massacre of August 7, 1933, in which as many as 3,000 Christians were murdered in northern Iraq. This event haunts us to this day. The…
Letter from CAMECT Secretary, Bishop Gregory Mansour: Dear CAMECT Members, The crisis in Syria and Iraq continues, and our thoughts are ever with our brothers and sisters enduring unimaginable hardships. Thousands have been forced to abandon their native homes, entire communities have been abducted, women and girls sold into sex slavery, boys forced to fight…
Catholic churches in six French dioceses will ring their bells at noon on August 15, the feast of the Assumption, in a gesture of solidarity with persecuted Christians in the Middle East. At least three Swiss dioceses have also joined in the effort, which was launched by Archbishop Dominique Rey of Fréjus-Toulon. The campaign also…
Il y a près d’un mois, l’équipe “Les Jeunes Apôtres” a reçu le prêtre André Saba et le journaliste américain Peter Boyles, au Liban, afin de voir le travail et les activités de l’équipe dans le domaine de l’aide des chrétiens irakiens déplacés par force au Liban. Ce Peuple qui a vécu la persécution, la…
