“Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence…To eat is…
Rome, December 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) Ann Schneible The increase in sectarian violence against Egypt’s Christian communities endangers not only the…
Damascus, December 16, 2013 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan Earlier this month, British parliamentarians spoke passionately about the lack…
The Embassy of Turkey to the Holy See releases a statement on the meeting between Pope Francis and the secretary…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The Christian village of Kanayé, Orontes River, in the Governorate of Idlib, has been invaded by…
Turmoil in Egypt has led to one of the worst persecutions of the country’s Coptic Christians in their nearly 2,000-year…
Warning that a Middle East empty of Christians would be “just like the Taliban,” Iraq’s most senior Catholic leader pointedly…
With grateful acknowledgement: John Allen Jr, in the National Catholic Reporter, writes: In a Dec. 14 interview with the Italian…
Ten years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, Christians have dwindled from more than a million to as little as…
Interview on Vatican Insider Ibrahim Isaac Sidrak was elected Patriarch of Alexandria’s Coptic Catholics last January. Since then there have…