Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – Because of the difficult moment the Iraqi nation continues to live, we need to create a “Chaldean League”: an association to coordinate and facilitate the contribution of the…
Representatives of various denominations take turns in celebrating Mass on Kiev’s Independence Square, the heart of anti-government demonstrations. They were invited by the leaders of the opposition. Churches condemn the streets on…
Brussels (AINA) — A well known Assyrian church manuscripts is the topic of a new book by Dr. Ayda Kaplan, a Belgian born Assyrian researcher. The Dioscoros Theodoros lectionary is one of…
Vatican City, 13 February 2014 (VIS) – This morning Pope Francis received in audience a group of bishops from the Episcopal Conference of Bulgaria on their “ad limina” visit, during which he…
BEIRUT — Maronite Cardinal Beshara Rai said Tuesday efforts by his Church to win the release of a group of nuns kidnapped from the historic Syrian town of Maaloula have hit a…
by Nirmala Carvalho The Major Archbishop of Trivandrum of the Syro-Malankara rite is the new president of the Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI). His Beatitude explains his “work program” for the Church…
Prompted by the Moscow Patriarchate, Russia’s Culture Ministry wants to develop a tourist cluster near the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra. For Patriarch Kirill, the new hub will, among other things, draw…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road…
According to a local bishop, numerous conversions of Muslims to Christianity occur every year in Lebanon, but the true number is unknown because of the risk of social stigma and persecution. “Most…
by Joseph Mahmoud Majid Al- Nasrawi met the Chaldean Patriarch and the new Bishop Habib Hormuz Al-Nofal. Governor promises land and work for those who return to the city. Mar Sako confirms…