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Joint Communique Of The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Of Antioch and all the East And The Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/joint-communique-from-greek-and-syriac.html?m=1 Statement of H.H. Moran Mor Ignatious Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/statement-from-syriac-orthodox.html?m=1 Early Reports of Bishops Release Premature http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/early-reports-of-bishops-release.html?m=1

Archbishop Yuhanna Ibrahim of our sister Syriac Orthodox Church and Archbishop Boulos Yazejy of the Greek Orthodox Church have indeed been kidnapped by an unknown rebel group. The story: http://syrianorthodoxchurch.org/news/2013/04/22/archbishop-yuhanna-ibrahim-kidnapped Additional details here: http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.ca/2013/04/al-joumhouria-details-emergy-about.html?m=1 http://araborthodoxy.blogspot.com/2013/02/two-priests-kidnapped-by-rebels-near.html

Church News of the Day – April 22, 2013 http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/69744/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-jihadist-leader-warns-of-Coptic-triumph.aspx http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/English/cathcilnewseng.htm#70http://www.armenianorthodoxchurch.org/v04/doc/English/cathcilnewseng.htm#73 http://www.majalla.com/eng/2013/04/article55240640

Church News of the Day – April 21, 2013 http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/syria-christian-refugees-485639 http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/154589/ http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=17585 disagreements-delay-restoration-work-on-6th-century-odzoun-church http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/apr/10/armenians-las-vegas-church-call-their-own/ http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=67573 http://www.malankarasyriacvoice.com/2013/AprilArchive2013.htm http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/asianet/130410/leader-egypts-coptic-orthodox-church-blasts-countrys-president-over-han http://hetq.am/eng/news/25271/remarks-of-his-holiness-karekin-ii-supreme-patriarch-and-catholicos-of-all-armenians-inauguration-of-the-republic-of-armenia.html http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/0/68772/Egypt/Egypts-Coptic-pope-to-recieve-condolences-for-AlKh.aspx http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-07/copts-denounce-egypt-s-mursi-as-violence-erupts-at-church.html http://www.rferl.org/content/egypt-christians-violence/24950722.html http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/68707/Egypt/Politics-/Egypts-pope-mourns-slain-Copts,-calls-for-wisdom,-.aspx http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/69181/Egypt/Politics-/Out-of-seclusion,-Egypts-Coptic-Pope-to-meet-Khoso.aspx http://britishorthodox.org/3986/pray-for-the-church-in-egypt/ http://news.sky.com/story/1075091/egypt-deadly-clashes-after-coptic-funeral http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/04/12/flowers-adorn-armenian-church-on-akhtamar-island/ http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/report-bullets-automatic-weapons-killed-copts-khosous http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Apr-18/214169-beirut-march-to-mark-armenian-genocide.ashx#axzz2R95qtgT3 http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2013/apr/19/even-desert-retreat-monks-feel-egypts-turmoil/ http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/8547338/Turkey-building-refugee-camps-for-Syrian-Christians-Kurds http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/11/us-egypt-copts-idUSBRE93A0L720130411 http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/copts-detained-libya-released-early-say-church-sources http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/nyregion/after-egyptian-revolution-an-influx-of-copts-at-a-queens-church.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1& http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/syria-christian-refugees-485639 http://www.eurasianet.org/node/66848 http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/154772/ http://armenpress.am/eng/news/715748/two-armenian-churches-shortlisted-as-europes-most-threatened-archaeological-sites-and-landmarks.html http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/04/syrias-christian-minority-lives-in-fear-of-kidnapping-and-street-battles/275084/