Samara, June 25, Interfax – Russian specialists are helping to restore the St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Russia’s presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich…
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From L’Osservatore Romano, 24 March 2014 An opportunity to relaunch commitment to ecumenism and collaboration with the Holy See. It was in this spirit that a meeting between Pope Francis and the…
published 9 January 2014 by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski I have been thinking a great deal lately about the differences between the Byzantine Divine Liturgy and the Mass of the Roman Rite. For…
Ethiopian Monasticism and its Literature: Inaugural Lecture for Centre of World Christianity at SOAS
4 March 2014 Ethiopian Monasticism and its Literature Dr Witold Witakowski, University of Uppsala School of Oriental & African Studies, Room B104, Brunei Buiding, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG 7pm – 8-30pm.…
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…
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…
Brussels (AINA) — A well known Assyrian church manuscripts is the topic of a new book by Dr. Ayda Kaplan, a Belgian born Assyrian researcher. The Dioscoros Theodoros lectionary is one of…
Prompted by the Moscow Patriarchate, Russia’s Culture Ministry wants to develop a tourist cluster near the New Jerusalem Monastery in Istra. For Patriarch Kirill, the new hub will, among other things, draw…
Please note that the lecture Wednesday 12th February is cancelled, owing to floods and suspended transport. The next lecture will be: Language, identity and inculturation in the Ukrainian Catholic Church – Wednesday,…
Priests , rabbis , kosher food and churches and chapels at the Winter Games , which open February 7 on the Black Sea. Patriarch Kirill consecrates Orthodox church near the Olympic Village…