Today there exists in Egypt the Coptic rite which is Orthodox and the Coptic ... to South India and founded a church. This rite was in union with the Assyrian (Chaldean) church which had fallen ...

Scores of Christians – priests, mothers, children – were caught up in the violence triggered by a revolt that broke out in ...

Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced a pregnant Christian woman to 16 years in prison on Saturday (March 8) and also handed ...

Members of the Orthodox churches, the Assyrian Church of the East and the Polish National Catholic Church are urged to respect the discipline of their own churches. According to Roman Catholic ...

Gangs of Oromo nationalists specifically targeted ethnic Amhara Ethiopian Orthodox Christians living in ... Will aid groups such as the Assyrian Aid Society, Open Doors, or Aid to the Church in Need, ...

Archbishop Elpidophoros, who leads the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America visited New Orleans Friday, bringing a message ...

- The Christians are split into a number of denominations - some of them tiny communities with ancient roots in pre-Islamic Syria. Groups include the Greek Orthodox, Maronites, Syriac Orthodox and ...

In 1995, six Orthodox monks left Mount Athos in Greece and came to the US to start Saint Anthony Orthodox Monastery in the Arizona desert.

Hundreds of civilians, including Christians, were "indiscriminately" massacred last Friday (7th March) in north-west Syria, aggravating the existing fear and uncertainty in the country, according to ...

At the same time, they reaffirm the unity of Syrian territory and reject any attempts to divide it. The Churches call on all ...