In the land where the Greek Church of the Roman Byzantine empire once brought the Gospel of Christ, the Prince of Peace, to the peoples who are now the Ukrainian, Belarussian and Russian…
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Thursday, 20 February 2014 After a night of violent confrontations between protesters and police and the deaths of more than two dozen people, Pope Francis and Ukrainian church leaders spoke out on…
Scarcely a few weeks ago, a professor of the Ukrainian Catholic University was hauled before the courts on trumped up traffic charges to intimidate him and harass UCU’s long standing commitment to anti-corruption…
20 February 2014 Beloved children and friends in Ukraine and abroad, It is with heavy heart that we have been following the ongoing and, indeed, only escalating tragic circumstances in Ukraine over…
Over the past 11 years, the Christian population in Iraq has decreased by more than 75%. It started to decline gradually after 2003, following the overall rise in violence and attacks targeting Christians. Before…
February 17, 2014 By Our Middle East Correspondent – Morning Star News CAIRO, Egypt (Morning Star News) – More than a week after a Muslim went on an anti-Christian rampage in Upper…
Politics aside, it’s hard to deny that the images beamed to the world from the opening of the Sochi Games were anything short of stunning. Of course, removing the Olympics from political…
As the President of Ukraine continues to assault his own people, constrict their peaceable civil rights and threatens the liberty of the Church, Her Majesty’s Government warns him: “President Yanukovych should be…
Cairo, February 19, 2014 (Zenit.org) | By Oliver Maksan, Aid to the Church in Need The year 2013 was not a good year for Egypt’s Christians. The wave of violence that engulfed…
Hospital inside the St. Mikhailivskiy Cathedral |PR News An historic church in Kiev was used as a temporary hospital to treat people injured in Ukraine’s violent clashes, activists said Wednesday. The landmark St.…