In spite of the danger, Christian families have sent their children to Church where the Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch said a prayer and offered gifts to the children. There follows His Beatitude’s…
Italian craftsmen have won the Palestinian Authority’s tender to repair the 4th-century church and Unesco heritage site, writes Matthew Kalman in Bethlehem, The Guardian, Monday 23 December 2013 Italian craftsmen have begun…
23 December 2013, by Orla Guerin As Coptic Christians in Egypt prepare to celebrate their Christmas on 7 January, they are still waiting for scores of churches destroyed in August to…
Egypt’s Interim President Adli Mansour has promised he would secure churches during the upcoming holidays and during the time of the referendum and elections. Mina Magdi, coordinator of the Maspero Youth Union…
Across the world this week, hundreds of millions of us will be singing of that “silent night, holy night” in the town of Bethlehem. But as Christmas approaches, with its beguiling promise…
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – In a new and important step towards the Christian minority, the Iraqi government accepted a request by the Chaldean Patriarchate to recognise 25 December as an official day of…
In AD 781, the Caliph Al-Mahdi summoned the leading churchman of his empire to recently founded Baghdad to debate with him the rival merits of Christianity and Islam. Patriarch Timothy did not…
The Christmas Papal Address to the Roman Curia seems to be an occasion when a Pope sets out the something of his defining approach for his pontificate. At one such address, Pope…
Mareil Marly (Agenzia Fides) – Among the various organizations working in favor of the battered Syrian people, there is the support of the Pontifical Aid to the Church in Need, actively involved in…
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – In the Christmas message His Beatitude Mar Raphael I Louis Sako will address to the faithful during Christmas Mass, which he is sharing with AsiaNews, the Chaldean patriarch focuses…