Severity of sentence shocks Christian community, free speech advocates. June 25, 2014 By Our Middle East Correspondent. ISTANBUL, Turkey (Morning Star News) – A young Christian man in Upper Egypt accused of…
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Aid to the Church in Need, Posted 2014-06-24 Catholic bishops from Iraq are meeting this week to come up with a “rescue plan” amid growing fears that the ISIS Islamist attacks have…
Antakya (Agenzia Fides) – The cave church of St. Peter in Antioch is still closed and restoration work is not yet complete. But the prefecture authority has granted permission, however, to the…
22 June, 2014, NEVŞEHİR – Presiding at a Sunday mass at a church in central Turkey, Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarch Bartholomew I said major changes in Turkey in terms of minority rights…
06/23/2014 In an official statement, the local Church calls on the parties to use reason and set up a national unity government that represents all citizens. War will not deliver any winners…
06/23/2014 by Marta Allevato In an interview with AsiaNews on the sidelines of the ROACO meeting in the Vatican, Mgr Sviatoslav Shevchuk speaks about the conclusions of the last Synod. He also…
23 June 2014 The Kyiv Caves Monastery claims that the church has no relation to the events that took place yesterday, on June 22, on its territory. Now on the territory of…
Kiev, June 23, 2014 The Kiev Caves Lavra has commented on the events currently taking place near the monastery walls. As other news sources have reported, there is an “anti-Maidan” group who…
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” Echoing Patriarch Athenagoras’ remarks on the election of Pope Saint John Paul II, His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and…
2014-06-23 23:55 GMT Mosul, Iraq (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has begun to brutally enforce Islamic laws (AINA 2014-06-14) in Mosul, Iraq, which it overran on June…