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Nuncio to Syria: After 11 years of war "we have fallen into obscurity"
Author: Massimiliano Menichetti
Publication Date: 15/3/2022
Source: Vatican News
The war in Syria – a conflict that has led to half a million deaths – began eleven years ago today, on 15 March 2011. “Don’t let hope die,” says Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Apostolic Nuncio to Syria, as he continues to denounce violence, poverty and neglect.
3 Iranians summoned to jail for spreading ‘Zionist Christianity’ - report
Publication Date: 10/3/2022
Source: The Jerusalem Post
Three Christian converts from the northern city of Rasht in Iran have been summoned to begin prison sentences for “spreading Zionist Christianity,” according to a recent report by Article 18, a a London-based non-profit organization that describes itself as dedicated to the protection and promotion of religious freedom in Iran and advocating on behalf of its persecuted Christians.
Conference in Damascus brings together local Catholic Churches and aid agencies
Publication Date: 15/3/2022
Source: Agencia fides
A conference organized by the Assembly of Catholic Bishops in Syria in collaboration with the Congregation for the Oriental Churches and the Apostolic Nunciature in Syria, begins today in Damascus. The aim of the event is to coordinate the Church's charitable activities at the service of the many victims of a conflict that has been dragging on for more than 10 years and is causing a humanitarian crisis.
Palestinian Christians celebrate Palm Sunday in Jerusalem
Publication Date: 10/4/2022
Source: The New Arab
Hundreds of Christian worshipers attended Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre to mark the holiday of Palm Sunday for the first time after two years of coronavirus restrictions.
Jerusalem's Christian population dwindles further
Author: Rasha Abou Jalal
Publication Date: 8/4/2022
Source: Al-Monitor
Christians made up about 25% of Jerusalem's population back in 1922, but today they number only 2% of the population.
Greek Orthodox Church decries 'extremist' takeover of hostel in occupied East Jerusalem
Publication Date: 30/3/2022
Source: The New Arab
The Greek Orthodox Church has branded an attempted takeover of a hostel in Jerusalem by Israeli settlers as 'illegal' and condemned the actions of the extremist group.
Egyptian Coptic priest killed by stabbing in Alexandria
Publication Date: 8/4/2022
Source: New Arab
A knife-wielding man mortally wounded an Orthodox Coptic priest during an attack at the popular seaside promenade in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria on Thursday evening, Egypt's interior ministry said.
The ministry said the priest died while being treated for his wounds at a military hospital.
The suspected 60-year-old attacker was caught by pedestrians who turned him in to the authorities, according to a statement posted by the prosecutor general’s office on Facebook.
President Assad meets the participants at the Conference of Catholic Aid Organizations and Local Churches
Publication Date: 21/3/2022
Source: Agencia fides
The President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad met the representatives of Catholic humanitarian associations and institutions and the representatives of various ecclesial groups on Saturday March 19 who had previously taken part in the international conference that took place from March 15 to 17 in Damascus Congress Center of Damascus, on the initiative of the Council of Heads of the Catholic Churches present in Syria, the Congregation for the Eastern Churches and the Apostolic Nuncio to the Arab Republic of Syria, Cardinal Mario Zenari (see Fides, 11/3/2022 and 15/3/2022).
