Church body calls for release of Syrian bishops abducted five years ago
World Watch Monitor The World Council of Churches has called for the release of two Syrian archbishops kidnapped five years ago. “The Central Committee recalls with heavy hearts the abduction five years ago of the archbishops of Aleppo, Yohanna Ibrahim and Paul Yazigi,” the WCC said in a statement following a six-day meeting last week. “We […]
Report highlights “brutality against Christian clerics” in Syria, with five still missing
World Watch Monitor A report about violence against Syrian church leaders during the ongoing civil war shows that clerics have been beaten, abducted – five are still missing – and killed, and that 2013 was the worst year. In The Good Shepherd: A Report on Brutality against Christian Clerics in Syria March 25, 2011 – present’, […]
Five years on, hope remains for missing Syrian bishops
World Watch Monitor Five years since the disappearance of two Syrian bishops, the Syriac Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut says “all available evidence and indications encourage continued optimism” that they may yet be alive and one day released. However, its statement added that “all the efforts that have been made to obtain even a single thread in this […]
SYRIA: ALEPPO BEGINS LONG ROAD TO RECOVERY
Writing for the World Watch Monitor, an unnamed worker with Christian charity Open Doors reports that the rebuilding of shattered, impoverished lives has been a slow process in Syria’s second city, but that it has presented the churches there with opportunities…