"Your brother created ISIS": Jeb Bush blasted by student, 19, over George's Iraq war legacy

  

Orthodox Church Leader Laments Global Silence Over 2013 Abduction of 2 Bishops in Syria

    

Economic Jihad against Russia: Putin says oil market price conspiracy between Saudi Arabia and US

Report: CIA Was Running Arms in Benghazi when its ambassador was killed

     

 

Cairo to Constantinople from 1862: No mosques, no Palestinians – only ghost towns of massacred Christian areas

Christians in Jerusalem want Jews to stop spitting on them

 

A few weeks ago, a senior Greek Orthodox clergyman in Israel attended a meeting at a government office in Jerusalem's Givat Shaul quarter. When he returned to his car, an elderly man wearing a skullcap came and knocked on the window. 

Syrian refugee girl to marry to pay the rent VIDEO

14-year-old promised to landlord in Lebanon after her family could no longer afford to pay the rent.

  

Over one million Syrian refugees have fled to Lebanon, but not all are eligible for aid.
Refugees who are not registered with the United Nations have been forced to take desperate measures to survive.

Al Bishara Aleppo TV Live Streaming from Syria

Al Bishara Aleppo TV Channel is transmitted by Al-Bishara Holy Convent of nuns, Aleppo, Syria. It works 24 hours a day, using Arabic language. 

Patriarch Yazigi: Resolving crisis requires political solution, dialogue and accepting others

On occasion of New Year, Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X Yazigi presided upon mass at the Marimaite Cathedral of Damascus on Wednesday.

Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy

Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for “insulting Islam”, may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges of apostasy.

Patriarch Kirill expressed concerns about exodus by Christians from Iraq

Moscow,  - Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed concerns about the exodus of Christians from Iraq.

Egypt 'worst for women' out of 22 countries in Arab world

 

Egypt is now the worst country for women's rights in the Arab world, according to a poll of gender experts.

The study found sexual harassment, high rates of female genital mutilation and a growth in conservative Islamist groups contributed to the low ranking.

BREAKING NEWS>> 31 killed in attack on anti-militia protesters in Libya capital

LIBYAN MILITIAMEN OPENED fire yesterday on white-flag-waving protesters demanding their disbandment, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 200 in a barrage of heavy machine gun and rocket-propelled grenade fire.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zidan blamed the protesters and the militia alike for the violence, though witnesses said they saw no protesters carrying weapons ahead of the shooting yesterday afternoon.

Egyptian Christians to be allowed to build Churches without permit of president

 

Copts will be able to build their churches in Egypt freely and will not have to wait a long time for the president's permit. The rule was passed last week in Cairo by the Committee of 50, the assembly which edits alterations of the constitution adopted by Islamists in 2012.

Arab Christians get satellite network TV coverage in North America

 

There are some four million people calling themselves Arab Americans, and almost two thirds of them in the United States are Christians. That is a lot more than the number of Americans living in, say China or Japan, and both those countries have channels such as CNN International, BBC and CNBC broadcasting.

Christians in Israel

 

Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” wondered Nathaneal, a disciple of Jesus, in the Gospel of John. Asked today, that question would have many of the city’s residents hard-pressed for an answer.

Do Christians Have a Future In the Middle East?

 

On Sept. 27, approximately 50 academics, politicians and parliamentarians met in the Jordanian capital Amman for a three-day research conference. They were united by one thing: they are all Eastern Christians. They hail from the original Christian groups that remain in the region, from Egypt, Palestine, Iraq and Syria all the way to Lebanon.

Al-Qaida-linked Syria Rebels Hit Christian Village

Maaloula before the war

BEIRUT — Al-Qaida-linked rebels launched an assault Wednesday on a regime-held Christian village in the densely populated west of Syria and new clashes erupted near the capital, Damascus — part of a brutal battle of attrition each side believes it can win despite more than two years of deadlock.

As the world focused on possible U.S. military action against Syria, rebels commandeered a mountaintop hotel in the village of Maaloula and shelled the community below, said a nun, speaking by phone from a convent in the village. She spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals.

The attack came hours before a Senate panel voted to give President Barack Obama authority to use military force against Syria — the first time lawmakers have voted to allow military action since the October 2002 votes authorizing the invasion of Iraq.

Christians caught in middle of Syrian conflict

Orthodox faithful pray during a mass held at the Syrian Orthodox Church on Sunday in Damascus, Syria to celebrate Easter according to the Orthodox calendar. Orthodox Christians celebrate Easter several weeks after observances by other Christian denominations. Christians pose around 12 percent of Syria's 20 million Sunni-majority inhabitants.

The uprising in Syria began as a peaceful protest for diversity and democracy during the Arab Spring of 2011. But it has turned into a holy war between Shiite and Sunni sects of Islam — with Christians and other minorities caught in the middle.

The highest profile Christian victims of the civil war are two Orthodox bishops kidnapped in late April, and there is still no official word as to the whereabouts or fate of the two clerics, who were abducted as they returned from a humanitarian mission in Turkey.

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The Stones Cry Out – The Story of the Palestinian Christians

The Stones Cry Out Trailer from Yasmine Perni on Vimeo.

• TRAILER: THE STONES CRY OUT - THE STORY OF THE PALESTINIAN CHRISTIANS

"The Stones Cry Out The Story of The Palestinian Christians" A film by: Yasmine Perni (English with Arabic subtitles)

I stared out my kitchen window one more time and simply saw too many lights across the mountainside. They belong to the new illegal Israeli settlement that has been going up during the past few years regardless of the results of any negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. I was reminded of the film I saw the other night. The Stones Cry Out: The Story of the Palestinian Christians was screened at Notre Dame of Jerusalem Center to a full house packed with an....

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