On the eve of the beginning of the month of Ramadan this year, “a month of forgiveness, compassion, and generous giving,” His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East,…
2 June 2014 At the Regina Coeli address on Sunday, Pope Francis prayed “for the victims of the tensions that still continue in some regions of Ukraine, as well as in the…
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople kiss the Stone of Unction in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre on 25 May. The two leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the…
2014-06-02 (AP) — A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for…
Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – The militiamen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni jiahdist formation acting on the scenario of the Syrian conflict, confiscated houses and land…
Aram I, Pope Francis to Pray Together, Visit Tomb of Saint Peter Vatican City, June 02, 2014 (Zenit.org) On June 5, Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia, will…
Here is the report on the Patriarch’s visit, issued subsequently to the photos. “Rebuild people and stones: restore souls and homes,” says Gregorios III, just back from Homs (Syria) On his return…
A virtual tour of the Ukrainian Christian Tradition’s Mother Church in Kyiv. St. Sophia Cathedral was built in 1037AD and is loved by Catholics and Orthodox alike. Its iconography and structure have for the most…
Sunday, June 1, 2014 Arabic original here. French translation here. Press Conference by His Beatitude Patriarch John X : On the Forthcoming Conference “Antiochian Unity: Its Dimensions and Exigencies”, June 26-28, 2014…
Emma Green, May 31 2014 In 2025, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians may return to Nicaea, the spot in modern-day Turkey where Christianity was literally defined. In 325, early followers of…