Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the tireless advocate of the Moscow Patriarchate’s policy to dominate Christianity in Ukraine by its theory of a “Russkiy Mir” (Russian Sphere, or Pax Russica) in which all…
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By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…
23-07-2014 – According to Iraqi intellectual Walid Khadouri Christianity is now facing an eclipse in its own cradle, writes Dina Ezzat In the Lebanese capital Beirut, where he, like no small number…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…
Ukrainian Catholic University writes: Those of you who follow the news from Ukraine know what difficult and tragic moments of our history we are going through. Every day we get news about…
Reinhard Backes, Wednesday, July 23, 2014 In a dramatic appeal to the international community the Archbishops of Mosul, Iraq have asked for more outside help for minorities in Iraq. Their declaration calls…
On July 24, 2014, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, met with His Beatitude Patriarch Bechar EL-Rai…
19/07/2014, Jerusalem The Patriarchate of Jerusalem is alarmed upon hearing the horrifying statement issued by the Islamic State group, telling Christian communities in the Iraqi city of Mosul that they must convert to…
July 24, 2014, By Dr. Adam A. J. DeVille, Catholic World Report Each semester, I teach a course called “Eastern Christianity and the Encounter with Islam.” And next year I have a…
2014-07-24, Rome Reports Two of the leading voices in the Muslim world denounced the persecution of Christians in Iraq, at the hands of extremists proclaiming a caliphate under the name Islamic…