A congregation of Ukrainian Orthodox worshippers at Hallmuir, near Lockerbie, will be celebrating Christmas on 7 January in keeping with the Julian calendar. The chapel is no ordinary place of worship, having…
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Vatican City ( AsiaNews ) – Pope Francis will be in the Holy Land May 24 to 26 , to commemorate the “historic meeting” between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras .…
Two-thirds of a historic collection of 80,000 books have gone up in smoke after a library was torched in the Lebanese city of Tripoli amid sectarian tensions. The blaze was started after…
Beirut (AsiaNews) – The abduction of twelve nuns from their convent in Maaloula (Syria) is a sign that “Arab civilisation is in crisis,” said on Monday Bishop Boulos Matar, the Maronite Archbishop…
The Maspero Youth Union has blamed the death of Coptic youth Ihab Ghattas on security forces and the Ministry of Health for falling short of their responsibilities. Ghattas, 23, was shot on…
A prominent judge in Egypt has called on the government to ensure the equitable treatment of Copts in the country. Judge Amir Ramzi has insisted Egyptian government needs to criminalize discrimination, as…
Longtemps j’ai baissé les yeux face à l’évolution de l’Eglise russe. J’identifiais le patriarcat de Moscou avec l’Eglise. Comme un enfant devant la nudité de son père, terriblement gêné par son indignité,…
Copts in the village of Tarshoub, Beni Suef, Upper Egypt, are experiencing intimidation after extremists attacked them on Monday. Aggressors threw stones at Coptic homes, burned a tuk-tuk truck owned by a…
The USA is a secular state constitutionally separate from the Churches. It speaks out on principle. The United Kingdom is constitutionally and confessionally a Christian State, yet remains doggedly silent, while our…
Baghdad (AINA) — A car bomb exploded outside of St. John Catholic Church in Dora, a Christian neighborhood in south Baghdad, as worshippers were leaving the church after attending Christmas Mass. The…