By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…
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23-07-2014 – According to Iraqi intellectual Walid Khadouri Christianity is now facing an eclipse in its own cradle, writes Dina Ezzat In the Lebanese capital Beirut, where he, like no small number…
The end of Christianity in the Middle East could mean the demise of Arab secularism In a Middle East rebuilt on intolerant ideologies, there is likely to be little place for beleaguered…
Ukrainian Catholic University writes: Those of you who follow the news from Ukraine know what difficult and tragic moments of our history we are going through. Every day we get news about…
On July 24, 2014, Hegumen Arseny (Sokolov), representative of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia to the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, met with His Beatitude Patriarch Bechar EL-Rai…
Fr Robin Gibbons, Thursday, July 24, 2014, ICN What is happening to the Christian communities in the Middle East is nothing less than martyrdom and destruction of their heritage and our ancient origins.…
Tue 22 Jul 2014 – The Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Gregorios III (Laham) has urged Muslims and Christians to work hand in hand to rescue the Arab East…
20 July 2014 A Christian has no right to be an initiator of murder, because it is always evil. But, in particular, in the military confrontation, a Christian has a responsibility to…
Vatican City, July 23, 2014 (Zenit.org) Pope Francis has called the Patriarch of the Syriac Catholic Church Ignatius Youssef III Younan to reassure him that he is following news out of Iraq…
07/23/2014, by Nina Achmatova Moscow (AsiaNews) – The Russian Orthodox Church has launched an appeal to the people involved in the crash on July 17, in eastern Ukraine, to tell “the whole…