Category Archives: News From Middle East

Holy Synod’s welcome Speech at the Episcopal Golden Jubilee of the Holy Father Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas at Holy Spirit University, Kaslik, Lebanon on 17 November 2013. Your Holiness Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch and … Continue reading →

19 October 2010: (Milan/e.p.) – Hopes are rising of a possible imminent deal to release two orthodox bishops who have been missing since being kidnapped earlier this year near Aleppo. According to Lebanon’s Daily Star newspaper, the bishops – Aleppo’s … Continue reading →

11 October 2013; BEIRUT: A deal running in parallel with efforts to free the nine kidnapped Lebanese in Syria could see the release of two Orthodox bishops who were kidnapped in Lebanon’s neighbor earlier this year, the head of the … Continue reading →

(“The land of the Mor Gabriel Monastery will return to the monastery’s foundation,” Erdoğan has promised. Hürriyet Photo ) 30 September 2013, ISTANBUL – (Hürriyet Daily News): The land of the historic Mor Gabriel Monastery will be returned to the … Continue reading →

30 September 2013, Istanbul: Mor Filuksinos Yusuf Çetyn completed 27 years ( 28-Sep-1986) as Metropolitan of Constantinople (Patriarchal Vicariate of Istanbul & Ankara). May the Lord God bless His Eminence with long life and health to lead the flocks.

30 September 2013: Lebanon: On the Feast of the Holy Cross (September 14th, 2013), and the thirty third anniversary of the Apostolic Enthronement of His Holiness Moran Mar Ignatius Zakka I Iwas Patriarch of Antioch and all the East, Supreme … Continue reading →

(Bishop John Ibrahim of the Syriac Orthodox Church, left and Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church, right, who were kidnapped Monday 22 April’13) 27 September 2013, BEIRUT: Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X Yazigi discussed developments Thursday in the case … Continue reading →

23 September 2013 Damascus English Translation Recent News (Almayadeen, 14:41) Syria: the chairman of the people’s commission for national reconciliation, Sheikh Saleh al-dalli al-na’imi, announced that the abducted bishops are alive in Syria. Source: http://www.almayadeen.net/