18 June 2014, 15:22 Following the address of Patriarch Kirill on events in Ukraine, UOC-Kyivan Patriarchate (not recgignised as canonical by the Russian Orthodox Church or those in communion with it) Primate…
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To His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness: Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ. Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years ago, I…
Posted 2014-06-18 22:23 GMT, (AINA) Sources in Tikrit and Mosul have told AINA that ISIS has cut off water and electricity to some parts of the cities. The villages surrounding Mosul have…
by Leila Fadel, June 18, 2014 About 20 miles outside the embattled northern Iraqi city of Mosul lies the Christian village of Al-Qoush. It’s taken in about 2,000 residents from Mosul who…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “In the villages in the Nineveh plain that accommodated part of the population fled from Mosul, the situation is worsening day by day. There has been no water…
Antelias – On Friday, 13 June 2014, His Holiness Aram I received Bishop Arseni, representative of the Russian Orthodox Church in Syria and Lebanon, in his office. The bishop transmitted the greetings…
Patriarch Ignatius Youssef Younan of Antioch is the leader of the Syriac Catholic Church. He spoke June 17 with EWTN News Nightly producer Kathryn Elliott from Lebanon, where he has been living…
June 16-21 2014 “Strengthened by the Holy Spirit that sustains our weaknesses, we support each other … In order to be forever salt and leaven in this land of ours,” says Gregorios III.…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Aleppo has been without water again for two days. The repeated suspension of water supplies in recent weeks has become an instrument of pressure in…
Patriarch Kirill warms to his usual theme that Ukraine is not Ukraine but “the southern regions of historic Rus”, meaning a Russian area. You might just as well say that Muscovy is merely…