Our attention has recently been recalled to the following interview granted by Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to Kommersant newspaper in December 2013: Metropolitan…
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The Russian Orthodox Church cannot afford to alienate Ukrainians as it bids for primacy within the Orthodox world By Fr Mark Drew on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 Patriarch Kirill doesn’t want large…
Moscow, June 2, Interfax – The self-defence forces in southeastern Ukraine do not have broad support and are “separatists,” Metropolitan Alexander (Drabinko), secretary of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of…
The Maronite presidential seat in Lebanon was weakened tremendously and rendered almost honorary with the Taef Agreement of 1990 after many historic powers were stripped from it. It was at the time…
2014-06-02 (AP) — A security official in Egypt says a mob of angry Islamists has burned shops owned by Coptic Christians near the ancient city of Luxor hours before a trial for…
Building Bridges with Christ: Patriarch Gregorios III at the 99th German Katholikentag in Regensburg
Patriarch Gregorios III attends the 99th. German Katholikentag in Regensburg, 28 May-1 June 2014 Valerie Chamberlain writes: Regensburg, Germany 31 May 2014 – Patriarch Gregorios III of Antioch and All the East, of…
05/31/2014 Patriarch Rai: Reconciliation with Lebanese of South Lebanon Army, they “are not criminals” The exiles in Israel “Lebanese as much as others, even more so”. For Rai, they did not fight…
Ian Knowles, director of the Bethlehem Icon School, reflects on Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land in pilgrimage with the Ecumenical Patriarch, on his blog, An Iconographer’s Notebook. Ian shows Pope…
By Jonathan Luxmoore CNS on Thursday, 29 May 2014 A Catholic bishop in eastern Ukraine said church members are afraid to attend Mass in Donetsk and other towns after a priest from…
05/29/2014, EGYPT For Catholic Church spokesman, “al-Sisi’s victory is a civil uprising against Islamic extremism”. Fr Rafic Greiche speaks to AsiaNews about Egypt’s election results. “There has been so much misinformation in…