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Since April 2013, the Syrian authorities say that they still have no clear information regarding the whereabouts of the two abducted bishops. The Lebanese Bishop, Boulos Sayyah reported on al-Mada station that "there has been no clear information about the...

Patriarch John X (Yazigi) of Antioch and All The East, the primate of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All The East, installed on February 10, 2013, made a plea to the international community for the release of...

The two Orthodox Bishops, Yohanna Ibrahim and Boulos Yaziji, who were kidnapped at the end of April, reportedly near the town of Kafr Dael, near Aleppo in northern Syria, are good in health as an official of the Syrian...

Two Orthodox Archbishops, Paul Yazigi, and Yohanna Ibrahim, Head of the Syrian Orthodox Church in Aleppo, who were kidnapped by rebels on April 22, are still being held in a village northwest of the city, it's been reported. Since their...

According to recent information, two Greek Orthodox Archbishops kidnapped in Syria, are both in good health and still in the custody of rebels. Aleppo’s Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim were kidnapped on April...

U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon Maura Connelly renewed Tuesday her government’s call for the release of the two bishops recently kidnapped by gunmen in Syria, following a meeting with Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East John X. “Connelly...

The two kidnapped Orthodox bishops are still being held, according to sources that spoke to Al Jazeera, denying earlier reports that they had been released, and prompting calls by the international Christian community for their freedom. " All we know is...

The Greek Orthodox Church denied Tuesday circulating reports that the two archbishops abducted in Aleppo, Syria, had been released. The fate of Greek Orthodox Archbishop Paul Yazigi and Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim remained mired in mystery after the two...

A church official said two bishops who were abducted by gunmen while traveling in northern Syria have been released. Greek Orthodox Bishop Tony Yazigi says the kidnapped priests, Bishop Boulos Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox Church and Bishop John Ibrahim...

Indians have a special connection with the ancient city of Antioch. The city, now part of Turkey, was renamed Antakya but their connection with it is fleeting at best when compared to the Greeks and Syrians, taking a chronological...

Pope Francis has decried laws that criminalize homosexuality as being "unjust" and has called upon Catholic clergy to welcome people who identify as LGBTQ into the Church. The Pope said that a "distinction" must be drawn between sin and crime....

The Synod of the Greek-Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa, held at the Patriarchal Center of Alexandria of Egypt from 15 to 17 November under the chairmanship of Patriarch Theodoros II, has decided to restore the institute of...

  JERUSALEM – His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and His Holiness Pope Francis crossed a fifty-year milestone today, continuing the legacy of their predecessors Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras. In 1964, those leaders broke a silence of centuries...

The nuns who were abducted last month from St. Thecla Orthodox Convent in the ancient Syrian city of Maaloula are fine, as stated on Saturday 25 by the Greek Orthodox Patriarch John Yazigi. According to The Daily Star there...

According to the website operationantioch.blogspot.gr, Islamists stabbed the chief of the Greek Levant Party, Rodrigue “Dimitris” Khoury. The site “Libanon Files” reported that it was very likely he was attacked by some masked Salafists while he was in the...