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Kyiv, Ukraine, Mar 18, 2014 / 04:10 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- As the Russian president signed a bill to annex Crimea Tuesday, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in the peninsula has been experiencing…
Readers may be interested in this reflection on liturgical and canon law with regard to Latins attending the Liturgy with Eastern Catholics, or for that matter with Orthodox, from a Roman Catholic Canon…
DAMASCUS, SYRIA, March 15 (CNA/EWTN News) .- As today marks the third anniversary of uprisings which led to civil war in Syria, Catholic leaders there and in neighboring Lebanon have reflected on…
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) – Political leaders and all those who wish to remain faithful to the Lebanese nation must put “an end to the attrition in the Country, giving confidence in the…
Hierodeacon Nicolai at the Tokyo Cathedral of the Resurrection (Mospat.ru) Hierodeacon Nikolai (Ono) comes from an old family of priests of the Japanese Orthodox Church. His great-great grandfather’s name—Priest John Ono—is often…
Like countless others both in Ukraine and around the world, I have been transfixed by events as they have unfolded over these last weeks and months. The world’s cameras and spotlights have…
17 March 2014, 13:52 On March 17 in Luhansk, the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Kyivan Patriarchate were called to dialogue. With a proposal to create a committee…
Aleppo ( Agenzia Fides ) – The ongoing conflict is killing the Syrian people also at a psychological level, and this pushes Caritas to take charge of new emergencies, such as those…
Meeting Follows Yesterday’s Referendum in Crimea Vatican City, March 17, 2014 (Zenit.org) Pope Francis today received in private audience His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, major archbishop of Kyiv-Halyc in Ukraine. The meeting followed…