The positioning of the Moscow Patriarchate speaks for itself, except to say that it is calculated to provoke the Ukrainian Catholic Church, in directing its “grievance” to Rome, by treating it as a mere…
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In the March-April 2014 issue of the two-monthly Italian magazine Terrasanta, Manuela Borraccino interviews Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect, in the Vatican, of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. An Argentinean with Italian…
There’s a disturbing story in The Catholic Herald by Jonathan Luxmoore on the growing persecution of Eastern-rite Ukrainian Catholics in Crimea. So much for Vladimir Putin’s attempts to suck up to Pope…
By Michael Gryboski, Christian Post Reporter, March 25, 2014|8:51 am Washington – A religious freedom-themed panel organized by a liberal group stated Monday that the American left should focus more on the…
Beirut (Agenzia Fides ) – “There are more than three hundred Armenian families who have fled from Kessab. They have now found shelter in the Armenian Orthodox parish in the city of…
Assiut (Agenzia Fides) – “The situation is complex. There is the hardness of a judgment that is not final, and we have to wait. In any case, the Church is against the…
Representatives of the Orthodox Church have seen Roncalli as the protector of ecumenism since the days of the Second Vatican Council ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city, 24 March 2014 Influential representatives of the…
A female Christian Syrian activist opposing the rule of President Bashar Assad was abducted by Islamist militants who disapproved of her participating in an outdoor protest while her hair was uncovered, a…
As the Syrian civil war drags on, one issue that has been neglected is the status of the remaining Christians within the country. Media reports have generally focused on the concerns Christian…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The so-called Arab Spring in reality “was not a spring or even an autumn, it was a winter”. With this judgment without appeal Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II…