Intensified exchanges between the leaders of the two churches, two weeks from Putin’s expected visit to the Pope. Kirill meets Card. Scola: ” Never before have we had so many things in…
Istanbul (Agenzia Fides) – The representatives of the Syriac and Assyrian Christian members of the Syrian National Coalition – the Syrian opposition groups recognized last year as the sole legitimate representative of…
The bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See, met in extraordinary session on November 5 to discuss their upcoming meeting with Pope…
Conflict thousands of miles away has turned killjoy for a section of the city’s Christians, depriving them of an opportunity to go on their annual pilgrimage to Syria. Jacobite Syrian Christians,…
“It was the most difficult day of my life and I faced it with courage, entrusting myself completely to God so that He would suggest to me the words to address to…
November 12, 2013. (Romereports.com) Pope Francis met with Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the head of external relations for the Russian Orthodox Church. It’s their second meeting. The first one took place after…
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – Mortar shells damaged the Primary Christian School St. John Damascene yesterday in the district of Al-Qassaa in Damascus, killing 5 children and wounding 27 others. Another rocket hit…
Sir John Tavener, one of the leading British composers of the past 50 years, has died at the age of 69. Sir John was known for music that drew on his deep…
Frustrated by their seeming lack of efficacy in creating a more moderate Egyptian constitution, Coptic Christians have threatened to walk out on a committee charged with creating the new document. Thus far,…
NEW YORK – In the summer of 1941, when the German occupation of Lviv unleashed terror on the city’s residents, Kurt Lewin, the son of a prominent rabbi, made his way to…