From CWN, 10 July 2012: Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej I has said that he would welcome a visit by Pope Benedict XVI, despite an earlier decision by the Serbian Orthodox Church not…
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from His Broken Body: Understanding and Healing the Schism between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches by Father Laurent Cleenewerck. Both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism are facing difficult new challenges. Christianity…
“Radical Islam revives an ancient hatred – Damian Thompson in Saturday’s Daily Telegraph Is a new and shocking wave of anti-Semitism engulfing the Middle East and the developing world? Consider the following: More…
The Revd Dr Allen Brent, a priest of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, has a distinguished academic career in both Britain and Australia as a scholar of Early Christianity and…
Damascus, 3 August 2012 “Blessed are the peacemakers” With these words Our Lord exalts peace-makers, saying that “they shall be called children of God.” (Matthew 5: 9). Through these same Gospel words,…
We have just received this email from His Grace Samir Nassar, Archbishop of Damascus of the Maronites, circulated by Bishop Nicholas Samra of the Melkite Eparchy of Newton in the USA. …
Christians and Muslims are fasting and praying together To our brother bishops, members of our Holy Synod in the Middle East and throughout the whole world! To our sons and daughters: priests,…
From Vatican Insider, ROME 7/5/12 Today was a historic day for Istanbul. Turkey’s greatest religious authority, the Grand Mufti, Mehmet Görmez, attended a meeting with Bartholomew I, at the Patriarchate of Constantinople.…
Kyivan Patriarchate Asks Christian World to Condemn Repeated Baptism By Moscow Patriarchate
His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III (Laham), Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch and leader of the Catholic Church in Syria, has imparted these reflections and observations as a vademecum to throw light on the…