Moscow, July 4, Interfax – The share of Russian citizens considering themselves Orthodox grew from 52% in 1997 to 68% in 2014, sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said citing a…
5 July 2014 On behalf of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) extended his condolences to the UOC-MP in connection with the departure into eternity of Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan). This…
In the morning of Saturday, July 5, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) passed away. The day before, on July 4, the results of the medical…
July 07, 2014, Michael J. Miller Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in…
05 July 2014 – Patriarchia.ru The monks of the Holy Transfiguration Valaam monastery have sheltered 116 refugees from Eastern Ukraine in their metochion in Priozersk. This was related by Vasily Rulinsky, press…
03 July 2014 Early Thursday morning – the very morning he would gather with his World Council of Churches (WCC) colleagues to talk about unity among churches and solidarity in conflicts –…
Most Russians (43%) would treat as quite favourable their close relative’s decision to enter a monastery. PRAVMIR. July 1, 2014. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) has reported what, according to…
Before reading the report below, which we do not edit, the following points, not addressed by the Serbian Orthodox Church or the Serbian State, should be borne in mind. The fascist Croatian Ustase…
As Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Hilarion heighten tensions and estrangement by truthlessly saying the Ukrainian Catholic Church incited violence in Kyiv and Western Ukraine, the Swiss praise the Moscow patriarchate for its noble…
by Elise Harris, Vatican City, Jul 3, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News) In a tumultuous Iraq facing an increasingly uncertain future, Catholic charity organizations are rallying to meet the immediate needs of those afflicted by…