COMMUNIQUE – Here below is the Final Comunique for the 2014 Holy Land Coordination issued by the Bishops participating in the Holy Land Coordination meeting on January 11 to 16, 2014. Bishops…
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RAS BAALBEK and AL-QAA, Lebanon — Christian villages on the Lebanese border with Syria are increasing security, both militarily and on the civilian level, following death threats by a local municipality figure and reports of…
See the posts below for the letter from the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and news comment The reason for such a reaction by the government office is religious activity, allegedly carried out by…
Vatican City, January 14, 2014 (Zenit.org) | 251 hits The following is a statement released by participants of the workshop “Syria: Can We Remain Indifferent?”, a Jan. 13 meeting of political experts…
The Ukrainian Government’s Attempted Repression of the Ukrainian Catholic Church The religious dimension of the EuroMaidan protests in Ukraine these past two months has gone largely unremarked. Yet in Kiev and elsewhere,…
At last – serious coverage in the UK Press of the crisis in Ukraine and the threat to the freedom of the Church and religious liberty: The head of the Ukrainian Greek…
Here is a translation of the letter sent to the leader of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk on January 13th, 2014 threatening legal repercussions for allowing priests minister to anti-government protests…
Jamie Dettmer, of The Daily Beast, writes: The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis will visit the Middle East in May, 50 years after Paul VI’s historic visit—but will any Christians…
The Ukrainian government of President Victor Yanukovych, who caused surprise a few months ago when he unilaterally withdrew Ukraine from a long-running process of effecting an “association” between with the European Union, in…
Kaya Genc writes: … Today, the building is on the brink of another transformation; 2014 may be remembered as the year that decided Hagia Sophia’s fate. Last month, Yusuf Halaçoğlu, a parliamentarian…