EGYPTIAN CHURCH MARKS ANNIVERSARY OF KILLING OF 21 COPTS IN LIBYA
16th February, 2016 Egypt’s embattled Coptic community on Monday marked the one year since video surfaced of the murder of 21 Coptic Orthodox Christians on a beach in Libya. The men were marched in orange suits across the beach, forced to kneel and then were beheaded by Islamic State group militants. The Christians, who went […]
MARONITES BUILD NEW CHURCHES IN SYRIA DESPITE ONGOING CONFLICT
16th February, 2016 A "gesture of revolt against death and destruction" is how Archbishop Samir Nassar, leader of the Maronite archdiocese of Damascus, describes the three chapels that the local Maronite community has decided to build in the Syrian capital. The first of the three places of worship – all located in outlying neighbourhoods of […]
AL-QAEDA CLAIMS KIDNAPPING OF SWISS MISSIONARY TAKEN IN MALI FOR SECOND TIME
16th February, 2016 Al-Qaeda in Africa has claimed the kidnapping of the Swiss missionary Beatrice Stockly who was abducted in Mali in January. In an eight-minute video, in which Stockly appears dressed in a black hijab, a masked speaker with a British accent claims responsibility on behalf of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). “Beatrice […]
THIS LIFE: A GLIMPSE OF GOD’S LOVE
CAROL ROUND, in an article first published by ASSIST News Service, says we don’t have to look far to see God’s love in the world around us..