Speaking to Parliament in Baghdad on human rights, His Beatitude describes a reality that is “a source of concern.” Security has “deteriorated” as have divisions of a confessional nature , fanned by…
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Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians of Lebanon and the Middle East, worried about their future, should avoid giving credit to fallacious theories such as the “alliance among minorities” and would do…
MPs raised concerns over the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle East in a debate held in Westminster Hall this week. “Extreme suffering” Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, who led the debate,…
At the Sunday Angelus, Francis speaks of Jesus ‘discourse ‘ about the end of time” and in unscripted remarks recalls the “brothers and sisters in many parts of the world who are…
Read the report here: Metropolitan Hilarion attends conference on protecting the family : Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church The joint Communique from the Pontifical Council for the…
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) — There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of…
This superb article by Robert Arakaki is an excellent treatment of worship as understood by Christians – and these days, maybe ONLY by Orthodox Christians. Within the past few decades, a new…
Upon his election to the chair of bishop of Rome in March of this year, Pope Francis announced his intention for a personal meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the…
In speaking once about the Church, the Great Melkite Patriarch, of Blessed Memory, Maximos IV made the criticism that Roman Catholics tend to, “limit their vision to the Latin discipline and Church,…
A further and worthwhile appreciation of Sir John Tavener’s Music and spirituality, from the Toronto Globe & Mail John Tavener’s sacred works were influenced by Russian Orthodox Christianity – The Globe and Mail