Cardinal Sandri Sends Letter to Bishops on Good Friday Collection | ZENIT – The World Seen From Rome
Vatican City, March 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, has addressed a letter to all bishops worldwide in view of the collection for the…
Swiss bishops, following Pope Francis’s lead, called for all people of good will to pray for peace in Ukraine. It is necessary to support all initiatives that encourage dialogue and reject violence,…
Posted 2014-03-05 19:22 GMT – AP and Susan Frazer in Ankara ISTANBUL (AP) — Although shut down for more than four decades, one of the Orthodox Church’s most pre-eminent seminaries…
ABC Religion and Ethics 6 Mar 2014 The Churches are playing a decisive role in the Ukrainian revolution. This is apparent from the prominence in Independence Square of dozens of priests and…
March 4, 2014 Oleksandr Pankieiev Andrei Zubov, a Russian historian and political scientist, was fired from his post as professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs following the publication of…
03/06/2014 12:28 TURKEY, by NAT da Polis Speaking to a group of visiting scholars at the Phanar, Bartholomew I defends the building’s Christian roots, pledging opposition by all Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Coptic politician Hala Shukrallah, the first woman elected to lead a Party in Egypt, has expressed “concern” with regards to the possibility that a return to power…
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in the north-eastern Syrian province of Jazira have ruled out any support regarding the creation of an autonomous Kurdish region in the area surrounding the towns of…
From Orthodox Church Info OCP 6/3/14 At the invitation of His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the First-Hierarchs of all the Orthodox Autocephalous Churches have gathered from March 6-9, 2014, for a Sacred…