Our member and occasional guest contributor, Fr James Siemens of the Ukrainian Catholic parish in Cardiff, Wales, and also director of the Theotokos Institute, has written the following piece on his blog,…
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The Sumela Monastery is a Greek Orthodox monastery dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Panagia, meaning “All Holy” in Greek) at Melá Mountain near Trabzon, Turkey. The monastery was founded in 386 AD…
29 April 2014 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in an interview with the Italian agency SIR said that today there are many issues that both churches must address together, Religion in Ukraine reports,…
With grateful acknowledgement to NR, we repost this characteristically penetrating analysis from George Weigel – even though we object to the repeated use of the contrived title “major-archbishop”, which is entirely a…
Serdar KORUCUISTANBUL / Radikal, April 9, 2014 The structure was built as a church by Istanbul’s Byzantine rulers around 800 years ago [possibly dedicated to St Theodoros], but was converted into…
A Lesson from History English translation of the book “To the Light of Resurrection through the Thorns of Catacombs. The Underground Activity and Reemergence of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” was published…
The section was inaugurated under the Sarkozy presidency in 2010, as a tribute to the Byzantine heritage but the Hollande’s Ministry of Culture has given other projects priority over this oneGiorgio Bernardelli, Rome…
Here are several prayers being offered by the Catholics of the Holy Land (Israel, Palestine & Jordan) as the day of the pilgrimage to the Holy Places of Pope Francis of Rome…
Three acts of aggression against Christians on one day | Francis & Bartholomew in the Holy Land 2014
The Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land published a strong letter of condemnation with regard to three acts of aggression against Christian sites and symbols that took place on Sunday…
John Pontifex at ACN has been tireless in his advocacy in the UK for Christians suffering persecution throughout the world – and not only Catholics – but notably in the Middle East,…