11:30AM EST 11/21/2013 Eric J. Lyman/RNS Eric J Lyman in Charisma News: Next week’s summit between Pope Francis and Russian President Vladmir Putin may be the most important meeting between a…
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Denver, Colo., Nov 21, 2013 / 05:56 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross, a Lebanese-born nun who has lived nearly 20 years in Syria, is travelling the U.S. advocating…
The constituent assembly amending Egypt’s suspended constitution has decided to introduce a quota for women, Coptic Christians and youths in parliament, sources said. The sources added that the assembly has formed a…
The rise of religious extremism has pushed religious communities to migrate from Iraq, especially Christians, according to Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldeans in Iraq. The patriarch called on the…
Edward Pentin of Terra Santa (the news service of the Custody of the Holy Land) writes: (Rome) – When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Pope Francis on Nov. 25th, persecuted Christians in…
I’m not sure whether Western countries hear my appeal or have lost their sense of humanity. This was belongs in the battlefield, not in schools, churches and homes BEIRUT: Greek Catholic Patriarch…
Speaking to Parliament in Baghdad on human rights, His Beatitude describes a reality that is “a source of concern.” Security has “deteriorated” as have divisions of a confessional nature , fanned by…
Bkerké (Agenzia Fides) – The Christians of Lebanon and the Middle East, worried about their future, should avoid giving credit to fallacious theories such as the “alliance among minorities” and would do…
MPs raised concerns over the increasing persecution of Christians in the Middle East in a debate held in Westminster Hall this week. “Extreme suffering” Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, who led the debate,…
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) — There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of…