Below is an abbreviated English translation of the key points from a recent interview by Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, Major-Archbishop (Patriarch)-emeritus of Kyiv-Halych. The complete Ukrainian-language interview may be found at credo.ua. 1.…
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At last, this beautiful and moving film of the faithfulness and suffering of a Russian Orthodox priest and his people during both Nazi occupation and the persecution of the Communists, now on…
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Moscow, July 31, Interfax – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations has expressed concern over the current international situation, claiming that the world has…
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by Elise Harris, Vatican City, Jul 31, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News). The Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See has lamented the ongoing persecution of Christians by ISIS forces in Iraq, stating that they…
Posted 2014-07-29 (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the city of Mosul, Iraq on June 10. Almost immediately thereafter it began to drive Assyrians out of Mosul…
Mar Behnam (St. Behnam) Syriac Catholic monastery inthe Ancient Assyrian town of Nimrod is now occupied by ISIS. Assyrian International News Agency, 2014-07-29 (AINA) — Since taking over Mosul on June 10,…
France offers Iraq Christians asylum after Mosul threat, BBC 28 July 2014 The French government says it is ready to offer asylum to Iraqi Christians forced to flee by Islamist militants in…
Paul Goble July 30, 2014 With Moscow’s Patriarch Kirill prevented from entering Ukraine, celebrations to mark the Baptism of Kievan Rus’ on 28 July, kept as the founding day of all East…