Christian Living Stones: helping Palestinians remain in the Holy Land talk by Sir Vincent Fean KCVO (British Consul General to Jerusalem 2010 – 2014) Bishop Richard Moth, Bishop of the Forces, will…
Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras attend a prayer service in Jerusalem in January 1964. Pope Francis will meet Patriarch Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew May 25 during his three-day visit to the…
Our attention has recently been recalled to the following interview granted by Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to Kommersant newspaper in December 2013: Metropolitan…
The Russian Orthodox Church cannot afford to alienate Ukrainians as it bids for primacy within the Orthodox world By Fr Mark Drew on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Patriarch Kirill doesn’t want large…
Moscow, June 2, Interfax – The self-defence forces in southeastern Ukraine do not have broad support and are “separatists,” Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko), secretary of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of…
June 3, 2014. Ecumemical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew will also travel to the Vatican on June 8, to join Pope Francis in his prayer for peace in the Holy Land. During his…
The Maronite presidential seat in Lebanon was weakened tremendously and rendered almost honorary with the Taef Agreement of 1990 after many historic powers were stripped from it. It was at the time…
Accompanied by high ranking delegation composed of ten primates, His Holiness Aram I began his official visit to the Vatican on Tuesday 3 June 2014. Aram I arrived in Rome by a…
Through its spokesman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Patriarchate is intensifying its attacks on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at moments of ecumenical encounter between Catholics and Orthodox in wider forums. At…
Pope Francis in the Holy Land, 24-26 May 2014 Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land is a call to dialogue and encounter, a call to excel and transcend walls and borders, says…