Zenit News Agency - Rome,Italy
22, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The Chaldean Church, whose patriarch resides in Baghdad, Iraq, takes pride in its ancient liturgy which uses the same language Jesus used ...

ChristianToday - London,UK
The All Indian Christian Council has met with the Indian Home Minister to address the ongoing persecution of Christians in the country....

Indian Catholic - New Delhi,India
Thiruvananthapuram (ICNS) -- A unique photo exhibition featuring Russian Orthodox Church is now underway in Kerala state. It depicts the resurgence of Christian faith among the citizens of the former communist country...

(London 20-1-06) Release Eritrea is concerned about news
coming out of Eritrea, confirming that Abune Antonios, the Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Church has been removed from his duty at the Patriarchate. Further the news also stated that the Patriarch has been placed under house arrest....

The Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church leaders are planning
to petition Congress president Sonia Gandhi, in person, against the `partisan and biased' stand adopted by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy in the ongoing church feud....

American Daily - Stow,OH,USA
Copts are native Egyptians, the largest group of Christians in the Arab world, the most undiluted descendants of the pharaonic people.... The Copts are the Christians of Egypt. Theirs is among the most ancient forms of Christianity, born in the time of Jesus. The name derives from the Arabic Qibt, an abbreviation of the Greek name Aigyptios (Egyptian); this in turn is a derivation of Hikuptah, House of the Energy of Ptah, the religious name for Memphis, the capital city of ancient Egypt. Coptic Christianity mingles remnants of pharaonic practices, elements of Hellenistic and Byzantine Egyptian culture, and the dynamism of Arab civilization....

Ekklesia - UK
An opposition rally coinciding with a Christian festival in Ethiopia has spilled into violence, leaving at least one person dead and 22 wounded....

To mark the Timkat (Epiphany) festival, tens of thousands of Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Christians march through the streets carrying replicas of the Ark of the Covenant, which they believe is kept safe in northern Ethiopia...

AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... For the first time, the Greek Orthodox Church held its first service in Gaborone in borrowed space. The main attraction is the newly appointed Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, His Beatitude Theodoros II of the Greek Orthodox Church who stopped over Botswana after a papal visit to South Africa to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ and show fellowship with the Greek community here....

Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
ABUNA Yesehaq, the late Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church (EOC) in the Western Hemisphere and South Africa, got his final wish and more. FINAL JOURNEY: Scores of mourners turned up at the National Arena on Thursday to say farewell to the late Archbishop of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Abuna Yesehaq....

SYRIAN CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH. Jose George ... Syrian Christian Church
in Kerala. The study of the Syrian Orthodox Church is basically a documentation on the Jacobite Syrian churches. The Syrian Orthodox Church is believed to have originated as a result of the missionary activities of St. Peter, the Apostle of Antioch, capital of Syria in 37 A.D., who established the Antiochion tradition also known as the Syrian orthodox tradition....

Syrian Christian to display here. Submit People Photo: ... Send Joshua
Project a map of the Syrian Christian of Sri Lanka to display here. ...

By the grace and will of God, HE Thomas Mar Makarios consecrated St. Gregorios
Orthodox ... September 17-19, 2004. Metropolitan Mar Makarios at Consecration ...