Vatican City, July 07, 2014 (Zenit.org) The Chaldean Church in Iraq’s city of Kirkuk has been helping refugees, making economic resources available to families forced to flee their homes. Intensely engaged in…
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Moscow, July 4, Interfax – The share of Russian citizens considering themselves Orthodox grew from 52% in 1997 to 68% in 2014, sociologists of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) said citing a…
July 07, 2014, Michael J. Miller Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in…
05 July 2014 – Patriarchia.ru The monks of the Holy Transfiguration Valaam monastery have sheltered 116 refugees from Eastern Ukraine in their metochion in Priozersk. This was related by Vasily Rulinsky, press…
03 July 2014 Early Thursday morning – the very morning he would gather with his World Council of Churches (WCC) colleagues to talk about unity among churches and solidarity in conflicts –…
As Patriarch Kirill and Metropolitan Hilarion heighten tensions and estrangement by truthlessly saying the Ukrainian Catholic Church incited violence in Kyiv and Western Ukraine, the Swiss praise the Moscow patriarchate for its noble…
2 July 2014 In recent years, relations between the UOC (MP) and the UOC-KP have improved, but after Metropolitan Volodymyr’s withdrawal from active governance of the Church there have been tendencies towards…
07/02/2014, IRAQ For Chaldean Patriarch, Iraq is moving towards civil war whilst politicians are only interested in oil by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako In a note to AsiaNews, Mar Sako highlights…
Rome, July 01, 2014 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Louis Rafael I Sako, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church, admits that he and his fellow bishops are “somewhat at a loss” in the midst of…
2 July 2014, RISU The Churches of World Orthodoxy are affected by the situation in Ukraine. Therefore the way to the Pan-Orthodox council to which many Christians are looking forward will to…