Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2014 / 04:01 am (CNA/EWTN News).- Despite its challenges, prison ministry in the Russian Federation is an important apostolate, changing lives and leading to conversions, a local Orthodox…
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Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – “In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – “In recent weeks we have seen a new wave of the exodus of Christians from Aleppo. The families waited for high school to end, then they took their…
Holot (Agenzia Fides) In the Negev desert there is a detention center with more than two thousand prisoners, mostly of Christian faith. We are talking about the center of Holot, where Eritreans…
The delegation includes Metropolitan John of Pergamon, Orthodox Co-President of the Joint Theological Commission for Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, also known as John Zizioulas, distinguished theologian, from…
A few notes before reading this fair-minded Reuters report. 1. The Byzantine Church of what is now Ukraine belonged to the Patriarchate of Constantinople and is not intrinsically Russian or dependent on…
Khartoum, May 18, 2014 (Zenit.org) Valentina Colombo “I am a Christian, I have not apostatized.” Thus Sudanese Doctor Maryam Yahya Ibrahim, declared to the court, after a Muslim religious tried for 30…
16/05/2014 Pope Francis has sent a letter to the head of Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church Pope Tawadros II to mark the first anniversary of their “brotherly meeting” in Rome. The letter written…
The freedom to choose and practice one’s faith is a fundamental right for all under international law, and yet we continue to see numerous tragic cases around the world in which that…
The Observatory’s Report on Intolerance and Discrimination against Christians in the Year 2013 was released on May, 15th, 2014. It contains 241 individually documented cases of intolerance against Christians in Europe, as…