World churches’ body renews calls for release of two archbishops kidnapped in Syria
The World Council of Churches has renewed calls for the release of two archbishops who were abducted from a car near Syria’s border with Turkey in April, 2013. PICTURE: Courtesy WCC In a communique released this week, the WCC’s permanent committee on consensus and collaboration expressed its solidarity with the Orthodox churches in Syria and […]
Negotiations underway for release of kidnapped Orthodox Syrian archbishop, German priest tells Lebanese newspaper
Negotiations for the release of the Orthodox Syrian Metropolitan of Aleppo, Mar Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim – reportedly being held by members of the so-called Islamic State in their last stronghold around the village Baghouz in eastern Syria – are underway, according to a Syrian Orthodox priest in Germany. The priest, Samuel Gümüs, made the comments to […]