Dear brothers and sisters! Today I wish to reflect on my apostolic journey to Cyprus, which in many aspects is in continuity with my preceding trips to the Holy Land and Malta.…
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June 6th 2010 at Larnaca International Airport. * * * Mr President, Distinguished Authorities, Ladies and Gentlemen, The time has now come for me to leave you, after my brief but fruitful Apostolic…
Aboard the plane to Cyprus, Pope Benedict XVI gave this press conference on June 4th 2010. * * * Father Lombardi: Your Holiness, we would like to thank you for being with…
NICOSIA, Cyprus, JUNE 6, 2010 thanks to Zenit.org Saturday in Nicosia Benedict, XVI met with an important figure among Cypriot Muslims, Shaykh Nazim al-Qubrusi al-Haqqani, 89, spiritual leader of a Sufi movement,…
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, I am very pleased to make this visit to the Cathedral of Our Lady of Graces. I thank Archbishop Youssef Soueif for his kind words of…
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, At the midday hour it is the Church’s tradition to turn in prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, joyfully recalling her ready acceptance of the Lord’s…
This is the Vatican translation of the homily Benedict XVI gave today in a Mass at the Eleftheria Sports Centre in Nicosia, in which he presented the “instrumentum laboris” (working document) for…
Your Beatitude, I greet you with fraternal affection in the Risen Lord and I thank you for your gracious welcome. I recall with gratitude your visit to Rome three years ago, and…
Chrysostomos II’s Words of Welcome to Benedict XVI “The 21st Century … Is the Century of Dialogue” This is the text of the greeting given on June 5 2010 by Orthodox Archbishop Chrysostomos…
This is the address Benedict XVI delivered on June 5th 2010 at a meeting with the Catholic community of Cyprus, held at the sports field of St. Maron primary school, Nicosia. *…