July 7, 2014 For Patriarch Rahi, parliament should meet every day until it elects a new president. The prelate makes the request to the parliamentary speaker. Some people “are hindering the election,…
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by Emily Robertson (6/26/2014) In northern Uganda, an area that has been decimated by war and is finally becoming more secure, “every day, everywhere you go, people are waiting to become Orthodox”,…
Vatican City, July 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) The Chaldean Church in Iraq’s city of Kirkuk has been helping refugees, making economic resources available to families forced to flee their homes. Intensely engaged in…
Moscow, July 4, Interfax – The share of Russian citizens considering themselves Orthodox grew from 52% in 1997 to 68% in 2014, sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said citing a…
5 July 2014 On behalf of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) extended his condolences to the UOC-MP in connection with the departure into eternity of Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan). This…
In the morning of Saturday, July 5, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) passed away. The day before, on July 4, the results of the medical…
July 07, 2014, Michael J. Miller Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in…
05 July 2014 – Patriarchia.ru The monks of the Holy Transfiguration Valaam monastery have sheltered 116 refugees from Eastern Ukraine in their metochion in Priozersk. This was related by Vasily Rulinsky, press…
03 July 2014 Early Thursday morning – the very morning he would gather with his World Council of Churches (WCC) colleagues to talk about unity among churches and solidarity in conflicts –…
Most Russians (43%) would treat as quite favourable their close relative’s decision to enter a monastery. PRAVMIR. July 1, 2014. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) has reported what, according to…