10 July 2014 The dialogue on the merger of the two churches is hampered because the UOC-Moscow Patriarchate does not perceive the Kyiv Patriarchate as an equal partner, but only as a…
RISU: 10 July, 2014 Today the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Kyiv and Moscow Patriarchates are close to unification. Ph.D. of religious science Yuriy Chornomorets expressed this opinion on air of BTB…
Diman (Agenzia Fides) – The Arab world “needs the Gospel and its teachings: those of love, brotherhood, peace, forgiveness and reconciliation”. This is what the Patriarch of Antioch of the Maronites, Bechara…
Jul 09, 2014, National Catholic Reporter “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait with endurance. Romans 8:25” Standing on a hilltop high over the Marmara Sea, I admire…
Follow this link for the recent lecture by Metropolitan Kallistos on Catholic-Orthodox union, delivered at the University of Villanova PA, in the US in June. Pope And Patriarch In Rome Future Opportunities1 –…
Syriac Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East, 9/7/14 Iraq: The Holy Relics of Saint Thomas have been transferred from the St Thomas Church, Mosul to Syriac Orthodox Monastery of St Matthew, Nineveh,…
PRAVMIR. July 8, 2014. Archpriest Roman Baranovsky, confessor of the St. Panteleimon Athonite metochion in Kiev, related how their church has been assisting refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. For several…
08/07/2014, Vatican Radio) “The situation was already bleak but now it has got a whole deal worse. For the first time the ever, the bishops have raised the doomsday scenario of an…
Ecumenical difficulties by Mathew Block, 7. 8. 14, First Things The outcome of the dialogue in Tallinn was sobering, as it is difficult to come closer on substantive issues. The question…
Andrei Malgin, Moscow Times, on Patriarch Kirill’s award to the leader of the Russian Communist Party, 8 July 2014 Not much in modern Russia surprises me anymore, but last week I got…