In view of the present crisis across Ukraine, our good friend Fr Athanasius McVay adduces two reflections on aspects of Ukrainian history as background. See here: Annales Ecclesiae Ucrainae: Understanding Ukraine’s Present…
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Congratulations to our friend Fr James Siemens in Wales, who has set up a chaplaincy for Eastern Christian students in the Welsh capital. A Ukrainian Catholic priest, he is Catholic chaplain at…
Our friends at the Friends of the Holy Land write about our President and their Patron: We were very pleased to hear the wonderful news that Pope Francis will make Archbishop Vincent, a valued Patron…
DOHA, 9 February: A group of nuns from the historic Christian-majority town of Maalula in Syria appeared in a new video broadcast by the Qatar-based satellite news channel Al-Jazeera on Sunday. The…
Here is the translation, thanks to ZENIT, of the Holy Father’s continuing catecheses on the Sacraments during his weekly General Audience today in St. Peter’s Square. It is a good example of the…
A retrospective exhibition of Ian Knowles’ icons together with some aspects of his work in the Holy Land with the Bethlehem Icon School 2nd February 2nd – 4th March 2014 Lecture – 8th February,…
Just before Christmas, thanks to His Beatitude the Melkite Greek-Catholic Patriarch, Gregorios III Laham, in Damascus, we were able to post a List of the Churches and Church Institutions so far destroyed in Syria.…
By Samuel Tadros, Research Fellow at Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom This essay is an excerpt from the Hoover Press book Motherland Lost: The Egyptian and Coptic Quest for Modernity. The…
February 7, 2014, Vatican Radio: Pope Francis’ attitude of hospitality and humility towards Oriental Orthodox leaders has had a positive impact on the dialogue between Catholics and these ancient Orthodox Churches. That‘s according…