The Pope received the new Ambassador of Turkey to the Holy See, Kenan Gursoy, and impressed on him and his government the need for religious liberty and freedom of worship (including the…
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Ecumenical News International reports from Epinay-sous-Senart, France, January 5th 2010: Inside a plain stone building that was once a Catholic convent in the center of town, a dozen black-robed seminarians struggle over…
Nat da Polis of AsiaNews reports from Paphos, 27 October 2009: “The work of the first phase of meetings post Ravenna 2007, between Orthodox and Catholics for the unity of two churches…
Archbishop Nikola Eterovic Preparations continue for next October’s special synod on the Middle East. The working document is nearing completion and emphasizes communion within the Church. The pre-synodal council met in late…
The Vatican Information Service reports, 4th December 2009: The Holy Father today received in audience His Beatitude Anastas, archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, who was accompanied by other representatives of…
Pentecost by Duccio di Buoninsegna, Duomo, Siena On 8th December 2009, the retired Archbishop of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Cardinal Luis Aponte Martinez, wrote to the cardinals and bishops of Latin America…
Zenit.org reports, December 3rd: Pope Benedict XVI is expressing gratitude to the Russian Orthodox Church and all those who collaborated in publishing a book with texts from the Pontiff on European culture.…
To His Holiness Bartholomaios I Archbishop of Constantinople Ecumenical Patriarch Your Holiness, It is with great joy that I address Your Holiness on the occasion of the visit of the delegation guided…
Patriarch Bartholomew I with Cardinal Kasper When the Apostolic Constitution to provide for ordinariates – ecclesial structures like dioceses – for Anglicans coming into full communion with the Holy See, there was…
Nat da Polis of AsiaNews reports from Paphos, 27 October: “The work of the first phase of meetings post Ravenna 2007, between Orthodox and Catholics for the unity of two churches concluded…