On 20 August 2010, Zenit carried an interview with Roman Catholic Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz of Minsk on the challenge of secularism to Christians following the end of communism and the rise of…
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Hundreds of Syrians from all over the world attended the inaugural Liturgies yesterday of the 4th century Mor Eşayo and the 6th century Mor Kuryakuş churches, reopened after 30 years, having been…
Bishop Andreas Abouna of Baghdad has died in Erbil, aged 67 having suffered from kidney failure. The bishop, who had served as priest in charge of Chaldean Catholics in Ealing, west London,…
Archbishop Antonio Mennini, up until now the Pope’s representative to the Russian Federation, has now been appointed the Holy See’s first apostolic nuncio to the country. The archbishop presented his letters of…
Billboards announcing Patriarch Kirill’s visit in Kyiv Patriarch Kirill of Moscow says that he and Benedict XVI often see eye-to-eye on many issues, especially with regard to those of a moral nature,…
The Churches from all round the world will focus their attention on their “Mother Church”, the church of the first Christians, in Jerusalem as they observe the Week of Prayer for Christian…
Zenit reports, 14 July 2010: Pope Benedict XVI has erected an Apostolic Exarchate for the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church in the United States, and appointed Father Thomas Naickamparampil, 49, of the Major Archieparchy…
Layla Yousif Rahema on Asianews reports (16 July 2010): “A sign of vitality and hope.” Thus, the Chaldean archbishop of Kirkuk, Msgr. Louis Sako, describes the ordination of two new priests held…
Among History’s Vanished The archivist of the Oriental Congregation, Gianpaolo Rigotti’s recent article “Uomini e attività della Congregazione per la Chiesa Orientale tra i motu proprio Dei providentis (1917) e Sancta Dei…