Before reading the next post, it is important to understand why the Greek-Catholic Church in Hungary is helping and serving the Roma people, and why the government there is trying to stop…
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The Greek Catholic Church in Hungary has lost a landmark court case to keep open a primary school in a predominantly Roma neighbourhood. Human rights activists successfully argued that the school segregated Roma…
By Ayla Jean Yackley MIDYAT, Turkey Fri Feb 28, 2014 (Reuters) – When Louis Bandak fled the violence in Syria, he sought refuge in the country his grandfather was forced to abandon…
Leaving aside the reportage about the nature of Eastern Catholic Churches…. Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb 27, 2014 / 12:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- A new diocese of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church has been…
Patriarch of Constantinople Athenagoras and Pope Paul VI in 1964 in Jerusalem Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I and Pope Francis in 2013 in Rome Jerusalem 1964-2014 Pope Francis in the Holy Land 2014…
See news report film here: Married St. Louis deacon to be ordained as priest
BC, 26 February 2014 LAST week, I explained in a posting that Ukraine’s religious scene is in some ways quite uniform—most people adhere to some form of eastern Christianity—but in other ways…
The Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kyivan Patriarchate (UOC-KP) welcomed the decision of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) to start a dialogue with the UOC-KP. In this regard, the Synod of…
27 February 2014 The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (AUCCRO), which over the past three months has consistently defended the peaceful protests against the use of force and punishment, issued…
The armed groups wear Russian uniforms and wave Russian flags. Tensions mount with Russian military exercises on the border with Ukraine and the protection given to former President Yanukovych. Kerry and Lavrov…