The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: brave peace The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the crucial conflict in the Middle East that has been feeding all rancour, revolution and extremism for more than sixty years! It is…
Vatican City, 22 October 2010 Zenit.org. The deep wounds left by decades of Communism in Romania must be healed by recovering values and rebuilding the social fabric, Benedict XVI said Thursday on…
The cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Smolensk that had been turned into a state archives department will now be turned over to the Catholic Church once more. The Russian agency Interfax…
Interview with Jesuit Father Samir Khalil, by Robert Cheaib of Zenit Vatican City, 21 October, 2010 (Zenit.org). The role of the civic state in stressing values such as citizenship is key in…
This is the Vatican translation of the “Message to the People of God” that the synod fathers of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops approved on…
ROME, 21 October, 2010 (Zenit.org). For now at least, the work of the synod on the Middle East is focused on 41 proposals that, after further revisions, will be presented to Benedict…
Congenial Eastern Atmosphere The Melkite Patriarch of Damascus himself, Gregorios III Laham, bluntly admits that the synod was his idea. Speaking on Tuesday in the Aula of the Synod at the Vatican,…
Egyptian Prelate Cautions Against “Islamophobia” By Carmen Elena Villa, Vatican City, 20 October 2010, Zenit.org. On the list of 24 men who will be made cardinals next month, one is an Egyptian…
Interview With Maronite Archbishop of Cyprus on his role as Special Secretary at the Synod of Bishops’ Assembly on the Catholic Church in the Middle East By Gabriela Maria Mihlig, Rome, 20…
With thanks to Mariaelena Finessi of Zenit.org, at Rome, 19 October 2010 When Benedict XVI made his pilgrimage to the Holy Land in May 2009, Jordan was his first stop. But many…