Syria

Given the fact that the situation in Syria is getting worse, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released information for Greek citizens who are in Syria at the moment. The ministry calls Greek citizens to call the following telephone...

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 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...

A senior police official said a Syrian man was arrested on Greece's northeastern border with Turkey with a large batch of telescopic sights for rifles and shoulder-fired rocket launchers. The official, who spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity...

Syrian President Bashar Assad, trying to crush rebels and accused of ordering operations that led to the mass murder of thousands of civilians, including children, had a cordial meeting with new Greek Orthodox Patriarch John X. Yazigi, who replaced...

Syria’s Greek Orthodox Church enthroned a new patriarch during a ceremonial mass in Damascus on Sunday amid civil war. John Yazigi, 57, replaces Ignatius Hazim as the Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch and All the East. Hazim died in December. The...

Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim died on Wednesday, December 5, 2012, at a hospital in Lebanon’s capital city of Beirut, NOW Lebanon reported. On Tuesday, local news editions announced that Hazim was received at the Saint George Hospital in...

The body of the Greek Orthodox priest Fr. Fadi Jamil Haddad, was found today in the Jaramana neighborhood (north of Damascus ) near the place where he was kidnapped on October 19th, by an unidentified armed group. Father...

Local authorities on the Greek islands of the northeastern Aegean Sea are girding themselves for what is expected to be a growing wave of refugees from war-torn Syria, as measures to reduce the inflow of illegal immigrants via the...