News From Syria

Dec 16, 2013, Agenzia Fides The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by Islamist militants that terrorize the population, threaten a massacre and have imposed the Islamic law. This is what was reported to Fides Agency by Mgr. Giuseppe Nazzaro, vicar emeritus …

Dec 5, 2013, RT Islamist fighters in Syria are believed to be holding a group of nuns hostage. Abducted from an Orthodox Monastery near Damascus they have reportedly been moved to the rebel-controlled town of Yabroud. The Pope has called for prayers for the kidnapped women, amid demands from clerics …

Dec 3, 2013, the Independent The spectre is looming of a second Syrian civil war with the head of the opposition’s official forces declaring that he is prepared to join regime troops in the future to drive out al-Qa’ida-linked extremists who have taken over swathes of rebel-held territories. General Salim …

Dec 2, 2013, Christian Post Syrian rebels have reportedly re-entered the historic Christian town of Maaloula, north of the country’s capital of Damascus, this week while battling forces loyal to the country’s President Bashar al-Assad. The rebel forces have been occupying the small, predominately Christian town intermittently for the past …

      Aug 28, 2013, Corbett Report Mother Agnes Mariam is a Carmelite nun who has been living and working in Syria for the past 19 years. Throughout the Syrian conflict, she has been working with a network of peace activists across the country and around the world to …

Nov 4, 2013, VoltaireNet While in Damascus, the Special Envoy of the Secretaries General of the Arab League and the UN, Lakhdar Brahimi, presented “his” draft peace conference project, Geneva 2. A conference whose objective would be to end the “civil war”. This terminology rehashes the analysis of one side …

Nov 6, 2013, AINA Inhabitants of Sadad, near Homs, who fled the largely Syrian Orthodox town when rebels attacked last month, are now returning home to discover the scale of atrocities in what is being seen as the worst act of anti-Christian persecution since the war in Syria began. The …

  ACN News: Tuesday, 5th November 2013 – SYRIA Suffering in Sadad: Bodies of family discovered in a well By John Pontifex HORRIFIC details are emerging of atrocities carried out in a Christian town in Syria, where 1,500 families were held hostage and 45 were killed, including two teenage boys, …

Nov 4, OCP News Special Report by Mor Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh (Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs and Hama) Photographs from Mor Timotheos Matta Alkhouri (Metropolitan & Patriarchal Secretary) My brothers and sisters The peace of the Lord be with you: I present to you a glimpse of the events which have …

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