As can be heard, when His Holiness sits to sign the Visitors’ Book, the call to prayer can be heard. Aya Sofya is no longer strictly kept as a Museum in a…
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Andrew White, an English clergyman known as the Anglican “Vicar of Baghdad,” has seen violence and persecution against Christians unprecedented in recent decades. In the video embedded below, he recounts the story of…
25 November 2014, Vatican Radio Pope Francis travels from Ankara to Istanbul on Saturday where he’ll visit the famous Hagia Sophia museum and the Blue Mosque. Later in the day he’ll celebrate…
Christianity is being extinguished in the land of its birth and the West is to blame, say Syria’s faithful By Ruth Sherlock, Izraa, Deraa, 22 Nov 2014 Outgoing artillery shook St Elias…
The Catholic & Orthodox Pastoral Consultation in England, meeting in London for its 2nd Session, wishes to add its voice of support and union in prayer to the Apostolic Churches of Iraq…
Certain thoughts spring to mind in view of the joint readiness of many, particularly European, countries to fight Islamic State and variously named takfiri groups: – Why are some countries, especially…
08/02/2014 Patriarch of Baghdad, Mosul Christians should be able to stay in Iraq, not forced into exile Mar Sako thanks France and Bahrain for the proposal to facilitate visas for Iraqi Christians,…
2014-07-31 (AINA) — The Assyrian population of Hassakah, Syria is leaving the region because of threats from the Islamic State of Syria and Iraq (ISIS), according to a report by the Adnkronos…
by Elise Harris, Vatican City, Jul 31, 2014 (CNA/EWTN News). The Iraqi ambassador to the Holy See has lamented the ongoing persecution of Christians by ISIS forces in Iraq, stating that they…
Posted 2014-07-29 (AINA) — The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) captured the city of Mosul, Iraq on June 10. Almost immediately thereafter it began to drive Assyrians out of Mosul…