Tag: Aleppo

‘We’re tired, so tired …there’s so much to do and we’re only human’

October 29, 2014 Syria Aleppo, Bibles, Lebanon

‘We are tired, so tired…It is going on so long and there is so much to do. We are only human.’ Sylvia works in her home town of Aleppo with internally displaced people (IDPs) who’ve fled other parts of Syria. She’s one of a group of young Syrians speaking about . . . Read More

Killing in Kessab

April 17, 2014 Syria Aleppo, Armenians, Islamic extremism, Syria

Further details have emerged of what’s been happening since the invasion of Kessab by Islamist rebels, which sent thousands of Syrians fleeing the predominantly Armenian Christian town. According to a World Watch Monitor source 23-year-old Kevork Jourian was killed by members of Syrian rebel groups as they were searching for guns . . . Read More

New US-based Syriac Patriarch says he’ll return to Syria

April 1, 2014 Syria Aleppo, Damascus, Syria, Syriacs, Yohanna Ibrahim

The Syriac Orthodox Church, one of the oldest churches in the world and seated in the heart of war-ravaged Syria, has selected a US-based archbishop as its next patriarch. Mor Ignatius Aphrem II Karim, a native of Syria, has been Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar to the Archdiocese of the Syriac . . . Read More

Italian priest still unaccounted for in Syria

August 22, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Bashar al-Assad, Boulos Yazigi, Islamic State, Kidnapping, Paolo Dall’Oglio, Raqqa, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

Conflicting reports are emerging about the whereabouts and welfare of an Italian Jesuit priest who went missing almost one month ago. Reuters reported on July 29 that Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio had been abducted by Islamists with links to Al-Qaeda in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, but the Vatican would . . . Read More

Archbishop of Canterbury and UK Foreign Office Minister alerted to need of Syrian Christians

July 10, 2013 Aleppo, Armenians, Bashar al-Assad, Damascus, Homs, Islamic extremism, Justin Welby, London, Middle East, Minorities, North Africa, Refugees, Religious freedom, Shia, Sunni, Syria, Syriacs, UK

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and the UK Foreign Office Minister responsible for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), have both acknowledged the findings of a report which says that Christians in Syria are increasingly targeted and vulnerable to persecution, amidst the on-going conflict there. Syria: Church on . . . Read More

Kidnapped archbishops ‘in good health’

May 30, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, the Syrian archbishops kidnapped last month, are being held in a village near Aleppo and are in good health, according to Ibrahim’s nephew Jamil Diarbakerli. The archbishops’ driver Fathallah Kaboud was later killed, while Diarbakerli identified Fuad Eliya as the final victim of the hijacking. . . . Read More

‘Groping in the dark’

May 9, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, George Sabra, Greek Orthodox, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

That’s how Mgr. Jeanclement Jeanbart, the Greek-Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo, describes to Asia News the absence of any information about the current fate of Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yazigi, respective heads of the Syriac and Greek Orthodox Churches in Aleppo. They were kidnapped on April, and little information has emerged . . . Read More

Archbishop’s life ‘under threat’

April 29, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, Greek Orthodox, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

Kidnapped archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim is reported to be without access to prescribed medication vital for his health. The Syrian Orthodox archbishop for Aleppo, who was kidnapped alongside his Greek Orthodox counterpart Boulos Yazigi, takes regular medication for high blood pressure and diabetes. A spokesperson from the Greek Orthodox Church in . . . Read More

Kidnapped archbishop urges Christians to stay in Syria

April 26, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, Greek Orthodox, Kidnapping, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

The nephew of Yohanna Ibrahim, one of the two archbishops kidnapped in Syria on Monday, said he hopes Syrian Christians will not use the incident as an incentive to flee the country. Jamil Diarbakerli, who represents the Assyrian Democratic Organisation (which petitions for the rights of the Assyrian minority) said . . . Read More

Kidnapped archbishops ‘not’ released

April 23, 2013 Syria Aleppo, Boulos Yazigi, Greek Orthodox, Kidnapping, Orthodox, Syria, Yohanna Ibrahim

Confusion surrounds the whereabouts of two Orthodox archbishops kidnapped on Monday and reportedly released on Tuesday. The latest reports claim the archbishops have not been released, while it remains unclear who abducted them. The archbishops’ driver, identified as a deacon, was killed, while a fourth passenger escaped. Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos . . . Read More

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