Experts have this week identified a recently discovered site in China as an early Christian burial site with origins in the Nestorian Church, properly known as The Church of the East. The…
Updates
From Terrasanta.net : (Milan/e.p.) – So far this year, anti-Christian graffiti was sprayed on the walls of a Catholic institution in Jerusalem, and three synagogues and a mosque were attacked and vandalized.…
Chiara Cruciati writes: After going through the door of the Armenian Convent, a world in itself opens up before the eyes of the lucky visitor. It is a place apart, separate from…
In a pastoral letter His Beatitude recounts the first year at the helm of the Chaldeans , and presents guidelines for the future. He does not forget the difficulties, the exodus of…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – After messages of support from the Coptic Orthodox Church to General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, similar gestures of appreciation towards the strong man of the Egyptian army – and…
As reported by Interfax, the head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church on Church-Society, Vsevolod Chaplin, called the Maydanivskyy movement in Ukraine the “new horde.” Chaplin also believes that the…
Cairo ( AsiaNews) – A group of armed men yesterday afternoon attacked the Coptic Orthodox Church of the Virgin Mary in the “October 6” district of the governorate of Giza. Police responded…
The Apostolic Nunciature in Israel announced yesterday that Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Archbishop Elias Chacour, Archbishop of the Greek Melkite Archeparchy of Akka, Haifa, Nazareth and the Galilee. The…
Michael J Miller, Catholic World Report, 27 January, writes: A Russian bid to draw Ukraine away from the European Union and more exclusively into its own economic and political orbit has had…
THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IS IN SEARCH OF NEW IDENTITY AND SELF-ARTICULATION” H.H. ARAM I On Monday 27th January, His Holiness Aram I gave a lecture on “The challenges facing the…