Fazel Hawramy in Irbil, The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 12.54 BST Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by…
In September 2010, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, addressed the Nikaean Club, a charity in the Church of England for…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Pope Francis phoned the Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Raphael I Sako to manifest his participation and closeness to the suffering of the Iraqi people, starting…
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the tireless advocate of the Moscow Patriarchate’s policy to dominate Christianity in Ukraine by its theory of a “Russkiy Mir” (Russian Sphere, or Pax Russica) in which all…
By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…
23-07-2014 – According to Iraqi intellectual Walid Khadouri Christianity is now facing an eclipse in its own cradle, writes Dina Ezzat In the Lebanese capital Beirut, where he, like no small number…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…
Ukrainian Catholic University writes: Those of you who follow the news from Ukraine know what difficult and tragic moments of our history we are going through. Every day we get news about…
Reinhard Backes, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 In a dramatic appeal to the international community the Archbishops of Mosul, Iraq have asked for more outside help for minorities in Iraq. Their declaration calls…
On July 24, 2014, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, met with His Beatitude Patriarch Bechar EL-Rai…