Repose of Joan Rutt, 3 April 1919 – 17 September 2007

Canon Richard Rutt writes: Joan`s parents, Arthur John Ford (clerk in the railway Clearing House) and Esther Paine, came from Cheddar, where Joan spent her childhood summer holidays. She was born at…

Mountains and Monasteries: A Pilgrimage to Armenia

Alan Watson writes: In September 2006, I had the privilege of joining the pilgrimage of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association to Armenia, my third with them, having visited Syria and Finland…

Reema Samaha

Fr John Salter writes: News has reached us via the Right Reverend Joseph Francavilla of the Melkite Greek Catholic community in the United States that Reema Damaha of the Melkite church of…

The Repose in The Lord of Sister Catherine Lucienne van den Plas

Fr John Salter writes: Visitors to the Melkite Patriarchate at Raboueh, Lebanon, will have received a warm welcome from Sister van den Plas (pictured, left, with Patriarch Maximos V and a colleague).…