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  • 12 Dec 2013
    Save Syria global petition presented to the UN

    Open Doors has presented a petition on the situation of Christians in Syria, signed by 309,195 people from 99 different countries, to the United Nations.

  • 10 Dec 2013
    Petitioning to support Christians in Syria

    The announcement of a 22 January 2014 date for the Geneva II talks on the future of Syria is a ray of hope in the darkness that came immediately after an Open Doors Pray for Syria event in Oxford – and gave added impetus to our Save Syria campaign.

  • 29 Aug 2013
    Christians in Syria concerned about military action, says agency

    Open Doors, a charity set up to support Christians facing persecution throughout the world, recently presented a report to Foreign Office Minister Alistair Burt at a Parliamentary meeting highlighting the particular vulnerability and targeting of the Christian minority communities within the wider Syria crisis.

  • 3 Feb 2013
    A political solution is the only way to end the Syria conflict

    Syrians can only overcome conflict with a political solution, strong democratic institutions and demilitarisation, says a prominent human rights defender.

  • 28 Jun 2012
    Conflict in Syria seen to be taking an increasingly sectarian turn

    A growing number of people caught up in the escalating violence in Syria appear to be targeted because of their religion, says a UN monitor.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 5 Oct 2011
    Syrian campaign to silence protesters overseas exposed

    Syrian protesters in Europe and the Americas have been systematically monitored and harassed by officials acting on behalf of the regime

  • 2 Sep 2011
    Why the Lebanese Church has not spoken out against Assad

    Events in Syria, though making headlines across the globe, and impacting the lives of everyone inside the country have left the Church in Lebanon tongue-tied it appears. Aline Sara, news editor of NOW Lebanon reflects on the political, religious, social and cultural issues which have led many Lebanese and Syrian Christians to refrain from criticising the regime for its crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.

  • 11 Aug 2011
    Is there a coherent sense of direction for Syria?

    Today Syria is a lesson about how motivated citizens can challenge governments that act violently and seem invincible, says Harry Hagopian. But we also need to be wary towards religious radicalism or fanaticism on the one hand, and military arrogance or political kleptocracy on the other, infiltrating movements for change and co-opting them in order to impose new forms of dictatorships, totalitarian control, subjugation and discrimination.