30 March 2014 BEIRUT: The case of the bishops kidnapped in Syria for almost a year is complicated, Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of Lebanon’s General Security, said in comments published Sunday,…
Tag: civil society
An Islamist attack on a Coptic Church in Cairo on Friday left four people dead. Supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood held demonttrations across the country in reaction against the official candidate in…
By Christine Haines, 30 March 2014 Prayers for peace in Ukraine are being said at Mount St. Macrina’s House of Prayer as Russia continues its annexation of Crimea and anti-government protests are…
John Allen, NCR, 28 May 2014 On any countdown of terrific Catholic stories over the last twenty years, the renaissance of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine would have to be near…
Your Eminence Peter Cardinal Erdö, President of the Bishops Conference of the Roman Catholic Church in Hungary; venerable and beloved members of the Conference, “Rejoice in the Lord, and be strengthened in…
Where do Coptic Christians stand on Egyptian politics, asks Michael Adel. 27 March 2014 For many Christians in Egypt, the ouster of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was a reason to feel secure…
March 26th, 2014, By Lou Baldwin Three archbishops — Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox — joined together in prayers for peace at Philadelphia’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on…
By Stoyan Zaimov, Christian Post Reporter, March 26, 2014 Violence in Egypt against Coptic Christians has continued despite the fall of former president Mohammed Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood, with believers still…
by NAT da Polis, 26 March 2014 A group of youth break into a church. After causing mayhem, they stole sacred objects and left two pro-Kurdish party flags. The incident could be…
The positioning of the Moscow Patriarchate speaks for itself, except to say that it is calculated to provoke the Ukrainian Catholic Church, in directing its “grievance” to Rome, by treating it as a mere…