8 May 2014, Deutsche Welle (DE) The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, Ecumenical Patriarch Batholomew of Constantinople, arrives to Germany May 10. During his nine-day visit, the 74-year-old will meet…
Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, praised Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for improving rights for Christians, but added pointedly, “it is not enough.” In an interview with…
2014-05-09 Pope Francis met with the bishops of Ethiopia and Eritrea, in Rome for their “ad limina apostolorum” visit. The bishops gave the Pope four Ethiopian crosses, as well as liturgical vestments,…
At the spring residential meeting of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England & Wales, His Grace Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, eparchial bishop of the Eparchy of the Holy Family of London, for Ukrainian Greek Catholics in…
8 May 2014 Coptic Pope Tawadros II showed an interest in art during the Easter holidays. His appearance at the Anglican All Saints Cathedral in Zamalek brought a crowd of Christian art…
▶ Pope Francis prays with Head of the Armenian Church, Karekin II – YouTube Pope Francis prayed with the Patriarch of the Armenian Church, Karekin II, at the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel.…
The references to martyrdom are in part diplomatic. They are to the mass persecution of ethnic and racial minorities in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire, of whom by far the…
This is relevant not just for Christian-Muslim Dialogue, and the Holy See’s relations with Turkey in respect of the Latin Roman Catholic Church community in Turkey, it also has bearings on ecumenical…
Fr Ioan Sauca (left) and Peter Prove (right) 08 May 2014 Father Ioan Sauca of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Peter Prove, a Lutheran lawyer and international affairs expert from Australia, have…
On 8 May 2014, an historic conference took place in Geneva, Switzerland, where seven senior religious and secular leaders from Syria’s largest Christian churches spoke in a unified voice on the situation in their…