Analysis/comment via Reuters and the Chicago Tribune. The other view is that Patriarch Kirill is not an arm of the Russian state, still less Putin’s regime, but a pre-eminent influential body in national…
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March 7, 2014 By Tim Kelleher “What a difference a day makes.” That was certainly the case when, in roughly twenty-four hours, Kiev went from flashpoint for civil war to a field…
Swiss bishops, following Pope Francis’s lead, called for all people of good will to pray for peace in Ukraine. It is necessary to support all initiatives that encourage dialogue and reject violence,…
Posted 2014-03-05 19:22 GMT – AP and Susan Frazer in Ankara ISTANBUL (AP) — Although shut down for more than four decades, one of the Orthodox Church’s most pre-eminent seminaries…
ABC Religion and Ethics 6 Mar 2014 The Churches are playing a decisive role in the Ukrainian revolution. This is apparent from the prominence in Independence Square of dozens of priests and…
March 4, 2014 Oleksandr Pankieiev Andrei Zubov, a Russian historian and political scientist, was fired from his post as professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Affairs following the publication of…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – The Coptic politician Hala Shukrallah, the first woman elected to lead a Party in Egypt, has expressed “concern” with regards to the possibility that a return to power…
Hassaké (Agenzia Fides) – Christians in the north-eastern Syrian province of Jazira have ruled out any support regarding the creation of an autonomous Kurdish region in the area surrounding the towns of…
As crisis deepens, churches harbor the injured and officials appeal for peace, freedom of citizens, writes Jonathan Luxmoore from Poland for OSV Newsweekly 5th March 2014 As the political situation in Ukraine’s…