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…
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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,…
06.29.14 The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the…
Erbil (Agenzia Fides) – The wave of displaced people who fled from Qaraqosh and other Christian villages in the Nineveh Plain under the military pressure of Sunni insurgents led by Islamists of…
An extended article from Der Spiegel (translated by AINA) about the history and experience of the 40,000 Syriac Catholic and Orthodox Christians of Qaraqosh, until now stable and peaceful, now overrun by…
28 June, 2014 KIRKUK, Kurdistan Region— President of the autonomous Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani made an unannounced visit to Kirkuk on Thursday where he met with Kurdish Peshmerga and security forces and…
June 28, 2014, Domenico Agasso jr, Rome – Vatican Insider Yet another display of Francis’ tour de force. At today’s audience with the Delegation of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Vatican, the…
Further to an earlier report: Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian…