Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The Iraqi Ministry of Education has decided to include Syriac and Christian religious education in the currucula of 152 public schools in the provinces of Baghdad, Nineveh and…
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The Patriarch of Moscow has today called for peace in Ukraine and prayers for its people. His statement follows, and to some extent counters, the urgent appeal for peace issued earlier in…
Members of the Ukranian community living and working in Wales have talked of their fears for their loved ones caught up in the country’s protests. After days of violence political leaders there…
Visit this RISU news report to see how the famous St Michael’s Monastery – destroyed by the Soviets and restored at Independence, and now served by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the…
20 February 2014, 15:30 | RISU The Holy Synod of the Kyiv Patriarchate today voted to suspend commemoration of the President and civil authorities of Ukraine during services in consequence of their use…
While most Cardinals are in Rome for the Extraordinary Consistory on the Family, there are a few who are noticeably missing. As Ukraine deals with the country’s rising violence, Cardinals Marian Jaworski…
One of the two tent chapels in Independence Square, keeping the peace and hope alive (Courtesy of Aid to the Church in Need) Kiev, Ukraine, Feb 20, 2014 / 03:24 pm (CNA/EWTN…
On February 20, in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, received the British delegation members of the Inter-Parliamentary Union. Link here:…
“We unequivocally affirm that responsibility for the current escalation rests solely on the government – personally Viktor Yanukovych and his “hawkish” command. Every case of escalation, each more striking in its complete…
With acknowledgment to Risu, which remarks: To those who repeat that Ukraine is divided: This photo is taken inside the St Michael Monastery. The priest (probably Orthodox) and imam are from the Donetsk…