“Our tradition is one that we have in common with our Orthodox brethren, but we live that tradition with the full communion with the successor of Peter.” Vatican City, Dec 3, 2013…
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Vatican City, 30 November 2013 (VIS) – Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is leading a delegation sent by the Holy See to Istanbul to participate…
Ecumenism is growing “from the bottom up,” the leader of the world’s largest Eastern-rite Catholic Church said in an interview with Vatican Insider. Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said that…
November 25, 2013. (Romereports.com) More than 3,000 pilgrims from the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church welcomed Pope Francis, amid applause at St. Peter’s Basilica. The ceremony took place to mark the 50th anniversary since…
Read the report here: Metropolitan Hilarion attends conference on protecting the family : Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church The joint Communique from the Pontifical Council for the…
Upon his election to the chair of bishop of Rome in March of this year, Pope Francis announced his intention for a personal meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople in the…
NICOSIA, Cyprus – The largest haul of looted, centuries-old church icons, frescoes and mosaics ever repatriated to Cyprus were officially welcomed Tuesday after a nearly four-decade journey. A ceremony marked the return…
Interview by H. Sergio Mora VATICAN CITY, November 13, 2013 (Zenit.org) – Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Department of External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church, participated in an…
Intensified exchanges between the leaders of the two churches, two weeks from Putin’s expected visit to the Pope. Kirill meets Card. Scola: ” Never before have we had so many things in…
Ecumenical dialogue conducted “at a grass roots level” and not just in commissions, but also the relationship with Islam and defence of Christian values at the heart of the visit of the…