Iraqi Persecution of Christians: Elderly coupled killed

ROME, DEC. 6, 2010 (Zenit.org). An elderly Christian couple was killed in their home Sunday night in Baghdad, the latest in a string of attacks against Christians that grew particularly severe with…

Christmas 2010 Letter from Patriarch Gregorios

Christmas Letter 2010 Gregorios, by the grace of God,  Patriarch of Antioch and of All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem: May divine grace and apostolic blessing rest on and embrace…

Harvesting the Fruits – Progress with Ecumenism?

Rome, 23rd November 2010, (Zenit.org). The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity just marked its 50th birthday. The council’s president saw this as an opportune moment to look at what progress has…

A Church That Was Supposed to Disappear

Interview With Cardinal Husar of Kiev, Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine, NOV. 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- The Church in Ukraine was supposed to disappear. Communists tried to liquidate it in 1946, but believers took the…

26 Injured Iraqis Hospitalized in Rome’s Polyclinic

ROME, NOV. 15, 2010 (Zenit.org).- On Friday, Rome’s Gemelli Polyclinic accepted 26 injured survivors of the Oct. 31 massacre in Baghdad’s Syrian Catholic Cathedral of Our Lady of Perpetual Help. The wounded…