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I believe and confess, as Coptic priests proclaim in the liturgy after the Epiklesis, that in a properly conducted sacramental liturgy, that the bread on the Paten or Diskos consecrated by the presbyter or bishop truly becomes the actual body of Christ, and likewise the wine in the Chalice truly...

From the YouTube channel Urho (The Way), established to educate on and explore the Syriac Orthodox tradition, here is a very interesting discussion between priest Fr. Dr. Renjan Matthew and scholar Dr. Susan Ashbrook Harvey, the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland Smith Professor of History...

Distressing news from the Syriac Orthodox Church of the UK, via the Democratic Syriac Solidarity Council (Lebanon): .نتمنّى الشفاء العاجل لنيافة الحبر الجليل مار اثناسيوس توما داود، راعي ابرشية المملكة المتحدة للسريان الأرثوذكس، لاصابته بوبأ كورونا We wish our beloved Archbishop Athanasius...

In case you're ever told that we OO exist for ethnic chauvinism reasons... :D See also: Ethiopian Orthodox prayer in the monastery of St. Bishoy, Wadi El Natrun, Egypt HH Ignatius Aphrem II of the Syriac Orthodox Church attends and prays at Holy Etchmiadzin, the mother Church of Armenia...

I'm not sure if it's related to today or not (all the videos on this press agency's channel appear to have been uploaded today), because I don't know the calendar of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Syria, but this short video tells of how the Turkish occupation of northern Syria is threatening the...

I couldn't sleep and was reading through Geoffrey Khan's grammar of the Neo-Aramaic dialect of Qaraqosh (Brill, 2002) last night and found the following interesting information on the history of Christianity (Orthodox and otherwise) in the area in the book's introductory material (p. 2-6). I...

CHRIST IS BORN! First from Lalibela, Ethiopia, the Beza Kulu celebration (I'm not sure exactly what this is, but it is apparently connected to Ethiopian nativity, since it comes up in searches when you organize by date), because it is live right now as I am posting this, and very impressive...

Numbers, greetings, and a little love story:

While the Western Christian world is celebrating the Resurrection today, today is Hosanna Sunday for us, so we are celebrating the entrance of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem. So today in the Coptic Orthodox Church we sing one of the ancient Greek hymns that the Church has preserved, "Evlogimenos"...

Please continue to pray for the safe release of the archbishops HE Mar Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim and HE Paul Yazigi, as well as all the other victims of kidnapping in Syria, and all others affected by ongoing conflict. Lord have mercy.

Hi everybody, I woke up early this morning so I've been doing some reading from Severus Al Ashmunein's The Lamp of the Intellect (what little of it I can actually read; due to a binding error, most of the pages of Ebeid and Young's 1975 English translation are fused together). It brought up...

Syriac Orthodox worship in northern Iraq, celebrated in Syriac and Arabic.

A wonderful recent story that I missed because I don't know Dutch. Translated by Google (I still don't know Dutch) from the Dutch-language website www.nieuwwij.nl, here is an interview about the young man's path, conducted by Femke van Loo. The twenty (year old) Ruben van der Kaap traded in...

This just came across my Facebook feed, courtesy of the Democratic Syriac Solidarity Council in Lebanon, though it was originally reported in Swedish by the Syriac Aramaic Association of Sweden. What follows is Facebook's automated translation of the main report. AFP: an attempt on the life of...