Accompanied by high ranking delegation composed of ten primates, His Holiness Aram I began his official visit to the Vatican on Tuesday 3 June 2014. Aram I arrived in Rome by a…
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Through its spokesman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Patriarchate is intensifying its attacks on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at moments of ecumenical encounter between Catholics and Orthodox in wider forums. At…
Pope Francis in the Holy Land, 24-26 May 2014 Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land is a call to dialogue and encounter, a call to excel and transcend walls and borders, says…
On the eve of the beginning of the month of Ramadan this year, “a month of forgiveness, compassion, and generous giving,” His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East,…
2 June 2014 At the Regina Coeli address on Sunday, Pope Francis prayed “for the victims of the tensions that still continue in some regions of Ukraine, as well as in the…
Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople kiss the Stone of Unction in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre on 25 May. The two leaders marked the 50th anniversary of the…
2014-06-02 (AP) — A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for…
Raqqa (Agenzia Fides) – The militiamen of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), a Sunni jiahdist formation acting on the scenario of the Syrian conflict, confiscated houses and land…
Aram I, Pope Francis to Pray Together, Visit Tomb of Saint Peter Vatican City, June 02, 2014 (Zenit.org) On June 5, Aram I, Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church of Cilicia, will…
Here is the report on the Patriarch’s visit, issued subsequently to the photos. “Rebuild people and stones: restore souls and homes,” says Gregorios III, just back from Homs (Syria) On his return…