2014-06-29 Homily of H.B. Patriarch John X In the Holy Liturgy celebrated at Balamand on June 29th 2014 on the Feast of the Antiochian See “O Antioch lift up your eyes and…
Sloviansk, June 30, 2014 On June 29, in spite of the cease-fire agreement, the Ukrainian troops again shelled residential districts of Sloviansk. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was shelled once more,…
niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | 27.06.2014 One of the things the Sunni Muslim extremists who took over Iraq’s northern city, Mosul, have forbidden is the worship of false idols.…
Samara, June 25, Interfax – Russian specialists are helping to restore the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich…
The Patriarchs of Antioch (l-r): Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan of the Syriac Catholics, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem of the Syriac Orthodox, Patriarch John X Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox, Patriarch…
At the Mass at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, Pope Francis conferred the Pallium on new Archbishops. Present was Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, heading a delegation…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…
06.29.14 The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the…
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of…
An extended article from Der Spiegel (translated by AINA) about the history and experience of the 40,000 Syriac Catholic and Orthodox Christians of Qaraqosh, until now stable and peaceful, now overrun by…