Andrew White, an English clergyman known as the Anglican “Vicar of Baghdad,” has seen violence and persecution against Christians unprecedented in recent decades. In the video embedded below, he recounts the story of…
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(Courtesy of Vatican Radio) Ahead of Pope Francis’ Apostolic Voyage, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has issued the following statement: His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox…
(Vatican Radio, 27 November 2014) Pope Francis on Wednesday said he was going as Successor of Peter to the land of his Brother Andrew, a reference to his forthcoming Apostolic journey to…
25 November 2014, Vatican Radio Pope Francis travels from Ankara to Istanbul on Saturday where he’ll visit the famous Hagia Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque. Later in the day he’ll celebrate…
Christianity is being extinguished in the land of its birth and the West is to blame, say Syria’s faithful By Ruth Sherlock, Izraa, Deraa, 22 Nov 2014 Outgoing artillery shook St Elias…
Galatians 6.11-18 – Luke 8.26-39 Picture Saint Paul dictating his letter to the Church in Galatia. When his assistant has finished, Paul takes up the pen personally, and adds some final thoughts.…
22:07 28.07.2014 (updated 06.11.2014) 28th of July is celebrated in Russia as the Day of Baptism of ancient Rus (the proto-state of Eastern Slavs with the capital in Kiev). Although the…
The Centre’s programme of lectures for Michaelmas term in about to get under way: – A Lecture Series on the Armenian Church in history, during the Soviet era and its rebirth post-secularisation…
After almost two years of careful preparation, the first meeting of a new pastoral consultation between Orthodox and Catholics in England took place in Oxford in February 2014. It is jointly sponsored…
The Catholic & Orthodox Pastoral Consultation in England, meeting in London for its 2nd Session, wishes to add its voice of support and union in prayer to the Apostolic Churches of Iraq…