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…
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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
Warsaw, November 15, 2013 (Zenit.org) | Here is the text of the message sent by Patriarch Bartholomew, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, to those attending the 19th Session of the Conference of the…
Coptic Orthodox Church UK Media and Communications Office His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan was received by His Grace Bishop Angaelos, General Bishop of the Coptic Orthodox…
Hopes are high, ahead of the meeting of the Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East with the Pope. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, which is…
The BBC pursues, in an officially Christ-professing kingdom where every owner of a TV pays for it, its secularist editorial line of ignoring the story of a vast surge in anti-Christian violence,…
DAMASCUS, Syria (BP) — For Hanna, a Syrian Christian mother living in Damascus, the country’s civil war is more than just statistics and news articles. “Every day when I walk to the…