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  • 22 Jun 2012
    Nun and pastor stay in Homs, Syria, to care for elderly

    Sister Valentine and the Rev Mofid Karajaili have chosen to stay with residents of a Centre for the Elderly in Bab Sbaa, Syria, despite escalating violence.

  • 29 May 2012
    WCC General Secretary condemns violence in Syria

    The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches has condemned the violence in Syria, expressed solidarity with the victims, and invoked prayers for peace in the country.

  • 17 May 2012
    Syrian Christians live in uneasy relationship with Bashar Assad

    Christians in Syria trace their roots to ancient communities and have survived under many rulers, while enclaves in other Arab nations have withered.

  • 27 Mar 2012
    Syria: the mirror walls of shame

    The region Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region - Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Bahrain, Morocco, Yemen and many others - is a tinderbox ready to be set ablaze, says Dr Harry Hagopian. So can the collective wisdom of the international community overcome its short-term stratagems and leap forward with political determination? Or will the haunting predictions of a well-placed Syrian activist from Homs who wryly suggested that we are in for a decade of sporadic and prolonged civil wars indeed come true? The stakes are high in Syria and beyond.

  • 25 Mar 2012
    Syria mission should report on human rights violations and abuses

    Any UN mission helping end to armed violence in Syria must include the monitoring and reporting of human rights violations and abuses, says Amnesty.

  • 15 Mar 2012
    British churches call for non-violent global action on Syria

    Three of Britain's largest Christian Churches have urged the UN to condemn the Syrian regime's brutality and to seek a solution without violence.

  • 3 Mar 2012
    Syria: solving the unsolvable?

    Developments in Syria continue to take alarming twists - not least with the latest eyewitness accounts coming out of Homs.

  • 31 Jan 2012
    UN debate about Syria analysed on television

    Regional analyst and Ekklesia associate Dr Harry Hagopian will be expert commentator assisting the presenter for the Al-Jazeera (English) from 7:30 till 10:30 PM tonight (31 January 2012).

  • 29 Jan 2012
    The evolving situation in Syria

    My latest 12-minute interview has been with BBC Wiltshire Radio on the evolving situation in Syria. Bishop Declan Lang is Bishop of the Clifton Catholic Diocese and I am his Middle East and North Africa advisor.

  • 28 Jan 2012
    New year, new direction in the Middle East?

    Can we expect 2012 to be as monumentally eventful in the Middle East as 2011? Perhaps even more so.