Author: Sovgira Y.V.
Communicology. 2017. Vol.5. No.2
SOVGIRA Yaroslav Valerievich, Post graduate student, Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies. Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract: The paper regards the position of the Syrian Christian community in the midst of an armed conflict, taking into account the confessional differences. The author considers in what conditions stand the communities of Orthodox, Catholic and Oriental (eastern) traditions. This research is condcuted for the first time in domestic science. Author makes the comparative evaluation of communities relations with foreign countries and diasporas, then defines ways of providing various kinds of assistance. The author concludes that the community of the Antiochian Orthodox Church is in the weakest position. The reasons are weak diaspora and less activity in informational field. Communities of the Syro-Catholic, Maronite, Melkite and other Catholic Churches have a good support through advanced system of the Vatican charities. Oriental Churches (Armenian Apostolic, Syrian Jacobite, and Assyrian) maintain close relations with powerful diasporas, that give them considerable material and information support. Besides, many donations from the Catholic Church members play its role. In conclusion of the article the author defines the main factors of such a different status and suggests ways to normalize the situation.
Keywords: persecution of Christians, Syria, extremism, terrorism, ISIS (ISIL), Christian confessions.
Text: PDF
For citation: Sovgira Y.V. On Some Particular Issues of Confessions among Syria’s Christian Community in 2011-2016. Communicology. Volume 5. No. 2. P. 134-143 DOI 10.21453/2311-3065-2017-5-2-134-143
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Communicology. 2017. Vol.5. No.2
SOVGIRA Yaroslav Valerievich, Post graduate student, Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies. Moscow, Russian Federation.
Abstract: The paper regards the position of the Syrian Christian community in the midst of an armed conflict, taking into account the confessional differences. The author considers in what conditions stand the communities of Orthodox, Catholic and Oriental (eastern) traditions. This research is condcuted for the first time in domestic science. Author makes the comparative evaluation of communities relations with foreign countries and diasporas, then defines ways of providing various kinds of assistance. The author concludes that the community of the Antiochian Orthodox Church is in the weakest position. The reasons are weak diaspora and less activity in informational field. Communities of the Syro-Catholic, Maronite, Melkite and other Catholic Churches have a good support through advanced system of the Vatican charities. Oriental Churches (Armenian Apostolic, Syrian Jacobite, and Assyrian) maintain close relations with powerful diasporas, that give them considerable material and information support. Besides, many donations from the Catholic Church members play its role. In conclusion of the article the author defines the main factors of such a different status and suggests ways to normalize the situation.
Keywords: persecution of Christians, Syria, extremism, terrorism, ISIS (ISIL), Christian confessions.
Text: PDF
For citation: Sovgira Y.V. On Some Particular Issues of Confessions among Syria’s Christian Community in 2011-2016. Communicology. Volume 5. No. 2. P. 134-143 DOI 10.21453/2311-3065-2017-5-2-134-143
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Available at: http://www.interfax.ru/world/531394 (08.10.2016).
2. Gusterin P.V. Grazhdanskaya voyna v Sirii i polozhenie hristianskogo naseleniya. Available
at: http://radonezh.ru/analytics/grazhdanskaya-voyna-v-sirii-i-polozhenie-khristianskogo-naseleniya-66722.html (08.10.2016). [Gusterin P.v.civil wat in Syria and conditions of Christians.(In Russ.).
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Available at: http://www.acnuk.org/persecuted (29.10.2016).
4. Bezhentsyi-hristiane ne sklonnyi vozvraschatsya v Siriyu i Irak – apostolskiy administrator
Ierusalima // Blagovest-info 11.12.2016. Available at: http://blagovest-info.ru/index.
php?ss=2&s=3&id=70950 (25.12.2016).
5. Anischik P.F. Sovremennyie zapadnoevropeyskie tserkovno-obschestvennyie i pravitelstvennyie
initsiativyi v oblasti prakticheskoy pomoschi presleduemyim hristianam Blizhnego Vostoka.
Dissertatsiya magistra bogosloviya. М., 2016. 156 p. [Anischik P.F. Contemporary western European
religious public, and governmental initiatives in providing assistance to persrcuted Christians of the
Near East. Diss.master of Teology. Moscow, 2016]. (In Russ.).
6. BetBasoo, P. Brief History of Assyrians. Available at: http://www.aina.org/brief.html (02.09.2016).
7. Murre-van den Berg Heleen. «Syriac Orthodox Church». In Kurian, George Thomas // The
Encyclopedia of Christian Civilization. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. vol. IV, pp. 2304-2309.
8. Gaunt D. Identity conflicts among Oriental Christian in Sweden. 2010, available at: http://www.
sens-public.org/article767.html?lang=fr (02.09.2016).
9. State Department Daily Press Briefing. Available at: http://translations.state.gov/st/english/
texttrans/2014/03/20140328297105.html#axzz2xc1yCks4(10.09.2016).
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004390+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN (10.09.2016).
