In a pastoral letter His Beatitude recounts the first year at the helm of the Chaldeans , and presents guidelines for the future. He does not forget the difficulties, the exodus of…
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Wednesday, 22 January in the 106th Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, 2014 Dear Brothers and Sisters, good morning! Last Saturday, the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity began, which will end next…
Vatican City, January 13, 2014 (Zenit.org) | 208 hits Pope Francis has encouraged a Vatican-run organisation aimed at fostering cultural collaboration between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches. The…
Jamie Dettmer, of The Daily Beast, writes: The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis will visit the Middle East in May, 50 years after Paul VI’s historic visit—but will any Christians…
ROME, January 8, 2014 – Exactly half a century since the embrace in Jerusalem between Paul VI and the patriarch of Constantinople, Athenagoras, Pope Francis has announced that he too will go…
Vatican City ( AsiaNews ) – Pope Francis will be in the Holy Land May 24 to 26 , to commemorate the “historic meeting” between Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras .…
The conflict between Greek Catholics and Orthodox in Western Ukraine has to be resolved from both sides, said Cardinal Kurt Koch, head of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. “Only by…
With grateful acknowledgement: John Allen Jr, in the National Catholic Reporter, writes: In a Dec. 14 interview with the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Francis suggested that the common experience of anti-Christian…
Read the report online here: Ukrainian Greek-Catholic leader pushes for ecumenism and freedom of Ukrainians