During his General Audience, Pope Francis expressed his solidarity with Christians in the Middle East who are facing persecution. The Holy Father, who continued his catechesis on the Sacrament of Baptism, reflected…
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Ecumenical Centre – Geneva 15-17 January 2014 Church leaders and representatives from Syria, the Middle East Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches and the Holy See[1] gathered in Geneva from…
Baghdad (AsiaNews) – “These projects and initiatives in the humanitarian field help spread a spirit of cooperation among all citizens. They also make it clear that Christians are true members of this…
Vatican City, (VIS) – Following is the presentation of the International Theological Commission’s new document, “God, the Trinity, and the Unity of Humanity: Christian Monotheism and its Opposition to Violence”. “The theological…
Homs (Agenzia Fides) – Islamist groups have killed and beheaded a young Christian man, seriously wounding another. The incident, which occurred on 8 January, was reported to Fides only now by a…
Motherland Lost by Samuel Tadros Stanford £14.86 Writing in the late 1960s, Aziz Atiya begins his magisterial account of the Coptic Church, in A History of Eastern Christianity with this reassuring assertion:…
The remains of a woman kept in an Indian church likely belong to an ancient queen executed about 400 years ago, a new DNA analysis suggests. The DNA analysis suggests…
Christa Case Bryant, December 22 – CS Monitor The pews at First Baptist Church of Bethlehem fill quickly as congregants stream in on a Sunday night, some with fancy purses, others with…
COMMUNIQUE – Here below is the Final Comunique for the 2014 Holy Land Coordination issued by the Bishops participating in the Holy Land Coordination meeting on January 11 to 16, 2014. Bishops…
The category of the “West” has played a particularly significant role in the modern Eastern Orthodox imagination. It has functioned as an absolute marker of difference from what is considered to be…