by Elias D. Mallon, S.A., Ph.D. With mostly bad news coming out of the Middle East, it is encouraging to see that Christians and Muslims are working together in Lebanon to…
Michel Constantin – CNEWA’s regional director for Lebanon, Syria and Egypt On Friday 21 March 2014, fighters from the Islamic Front and the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front launched a surprise attack from…
Your Eminence Peter Cardinal Erdö, President of the Bishops Conference of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary; venerable and beloved members of the Conference, “Rejoice in the Lord, and be strengthened in…
27 March 2014 On March 22, 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, who hosts the Church and World talk-show on Russia-24 TV channel, had as his guest the editor-in-chief of the Religion and…
Where do Coptic Christians stand on Egyptian politics, asks Michael Adel. 27 March 2014 For many Christians in Egypt, the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was a reason to feel secure…
Pilgrimage of His Holiness Pope Francis in the Holy Land on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the meeting in Jerusalem between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras. (May 24 –…
By Augin Kurt Haninke, 2014-03-27 Stockholm (AINA) — On the same day I received the news that Patriarch Zakka had passed away in a hospital in Germany (AINA 2014-03-21), I was invited…
DAMASCUS (AP) — The patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who led one of the world’s oldest Christian sects, was buried in a village near Damascus on Friday after an elaborate memorial…
Sophia Kishkovsky Religion News Service | Mar. 27, 2014 As Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border and a controversial secession vote in Crimea approached March 16, Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox…
March 26th, 2014, By Lou Baldwin Three archbishops — Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox — joined together in prayers for peace at Philadelphia’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on…