Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had…
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Baghdad, June 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been returning to their homes in the north of the country, days after they fled villages under attack by Sunni Muslim extremists.…
Patriarch Ignatius Aphrem II of Antioch and Catholicos Baselois Marthoma Paulose II of the East OCP News Service 30/5/14 Also read: OCP Chancellor Calls Patriarch Ignatius Ephraim II as the new bright…
2014-06-29 Homily of H.B. Patriarch John X In the Holy Liturgy celebrated at Balamand on June 29th 2014 on the Feast of the Antiochian See “O Antioch lift up your eyes and…
Sloviansk, June 30, 2014 On June 29, in spite of the cease-fire agreement, the Ukrainian troops again shelled residential districts of Sloviansk. The St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral was shelled once more,…
niqash | Special Correspondent | Mosul | 27.06.2014 One of the things the Sunni Muslim extremists who took over Iraq’s northern city, Mosul, have forbidden is the worship of false idols.…
Samara, June 25, Interfax – Russian specialists are helping to restore the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich…
The Patriarchs of Antioch (l-r): Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan of the Syriac Catholics, Patriarch Mor Ignatius Aphrem of the Syriac Orthodox, Patriarch John X Yazigi of the Greek Orthodox, Patriarch…
At the Mass at St Peter’s on the Solemnity of SS Peter & Paul, Pope Francis conferred the Pallium on new Archbishops. Present was Metropolitan John (Zizioulas) of Pergamon, heading a delegation…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…