In much of the world, Friday’s historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in Havana, Cuba, will be hailed as a breakthrough. Attitudes are more mixed, however,…
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Ahead of the historic meeting of His Holiness Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Dr Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University, Lviv, Ukraine, and – as a supposed dissident…
Centre for Continuing Education, Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford Anthony O’Mahony Director of the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London and Research Fellow, Blackfriars, University of Oxford …
The Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London In association with the Society of St John Chrysostom Research Study Day Eastern Christianity: modern histories, theologies and contemporary contexts —– 10.30-11.00:…
Remembering, too, all the victims of persecution. http://youtu.be/5rOtYRs1KwI
The Byzantine Divine Liturgy, in the view of many Western people, is ornate and richly complex. In fact, while the prayers are longer than those in the Latin tradition and an obvious…
What are our leaders doing about religious persecution? – Telegraph Saturday, 25th April, 2015 The recent car bomb explosion in Erbil, in Iraq, came as a particular shock since only five days…
Most Reverend Metropolitans, Archbishops and Bishops, Very Reverend and Reverend Fathers, Venerable Religious and Monastics, Beloved Brothers and Sisters, in Ukraine and throughout the world Fear not, for behold, I bring you…
Letter of His Beatitude Gregorios III Patriarch Antioch and All the East Of Alexandria and of Jerusalem For the Feast of the Nativity 25 December 2014 From Gregorios III, servant of Jesus…
By Richard Spencer, Dora, Baghdad, 22 Dec 2014 Last Christmas in Baghdad? There are just 1,500 Christians left in the suburb of Dora, down from 150,000 a decade ago There will be…