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…
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We have asked the editor of the Catholic Herald that the courtesy of addressing Patriarch Sviatoslav as Patriarch Sviatoslav instead of by the invented Latin Roman Catholic construct, unknown in the Eastern Church,…
by NAT da Polis, 27-2-2014 – Asia News Made many times but never kept, the promise to reopen the Halki Theological School is another of the prime minister’s mad ideas. So far,…
By: Yazan al-Saadi Published Tuesday, February 25, 2014 Israel’s legislative branch, known as the Knesset, passed a controversial bill into law that defines 1948 Christians Palestinians as “non-Arabs”, Israeli media reported (link…
OCP News Service – 27/2/14 Prakash Varghese(OCP Delegate -UAE,Gulf and Levant Region) The Primates, high ranking Metropolitan, Archbishops and other prelates of all Eastern Orthodox Churches will meet in Istanbul on the…
Please note this interesting new blog, aimed at publishing in English a substantial new illustrated resource, to foster the liturgical formation of the faithful, complete with the texts and guides to the services,…
A ragtag militia defends the community against Islamists and the Assad government. By Andrew Doran The Christian soldier extends his hand and greets me in Syriac with “shlomo” (peace) as he clutches…
The Metropolitan of Pergamon Ioannis Zizioulas [the theologian John Zizioulas] has raised alarm bells about divisions between the Orthodox Churches. Some have reduced Christian unity to an alliance between religious hierarchies formed in…
Okan KONURALP ANKARA / Hürriyet – 27 February 2014 The return of the land of the monastery marks the largest property restoration in the history of the Turkish Republic in terms of…
We are most grateful to a friend of the Society’s for translating this important and closely reasoned answer to the Moscow Statement in favour of the present efforts of the Joint International…