By Sophia Kishkovsky | Religion News Service, Published: March 14 MOSCOW — As Russian troops massed on Ukraine’s border and a controversial secession vote in Crimea approaches Sunday (March 16), Patriarch Kirill…
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Simon Shuster / Simferopol @shustry March 15, 2014 Archbishop Kliment, in Simferopol, Ukraine, March 2, 2014. Yuri Kozyrev—NOOR for TIME Archbishop Kliment of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church -Kyivan Patriarchate became a national…
It is clear that the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church is being targeted by the Russian occupying forces in Crimea. In January, the Ukrainian Catholic Church was threatened by the then President of Ukraine,…
By Ray Hanania Amine Gemayel, the former president of Lebanon from 1982 to 1988 and the leader of Lebanon’s Kataeb party, warned this week the Arab world is experiencing a “crisis of…
Aid to the Church in Need 2014-03-14 23:00 GMT NEW YORK — In spite of an uncertain future, the Christians in Syria want to stay put. This was the message delivered by…
Prof. Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Follow the link for an abridged version of Michelle Tusan’s “‘Crimes against Humanity’: Human Rights, the British Empire, and the Origins of the Response…
13 March 2014 by John E. Kozar Today, I was touched to receive the brief handwritten note pictured above. It comes from Maronite Archbishop Samir Nassar of Damascus. It reads: Dear Msgr.…
Our friends and followers may be interested in this document on the Vatican website (Congregation for the Clergy, rather than the Eastern Churches), by Fr Roman Cholij, dated New Year’s Day 1993,…
The Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London “Life and Times of Cardinal Iuliu Hossu: The metamorphoses of a ministry: An episode in the Modern History of the Greek Catholic…
March 14, 2014 – The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest – Fr. Cyril Hovorun An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates of the local…