By Michael Glackin, http://www.indcatholicnews.com, 11 July 2014 I met Saad on a sweltering hot day, 90 degrees in September no less, just as we were both leaving Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal Mass…
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The church, surrounded by palm trees, a catholic seminary and a dormitory. One language, one tradition, one Christian religion. This is what one of the most interesting Ukrainian communities in Rome looks…
07/02/2014, IRAQ For Chaldean Patriarch, Iraq is moving towards civil war whilst politicians are only interested in oil by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako In a note to AsiaNews, Mar Sako highlights…
Rome, July 01, 2014 (Zenit.org) Patriarch Louis Rafael I Sako, leader of the Chaldean Catholic Church, admits that he and his fellow bishops are “somewhat at a loss” in the midst of…
The Russian president is neither a Tsar or a Communist, but his foreign policy shows little difference from either By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 The continuities of history…
Final Statement on the Antiochian Conference, 30 June 2014 See also: The Coming Antiochian Unity Conference: A Ray of Light towards Long-Awaited Hope Patriarch John X Announces Antiochian Unity Conference…
By Daniella Cheslow http://www.pri.org, 2014-06-30 When Pope Francis visited the Holy Land late May, one member of his entourage stood out: Lebanese Cardinal Bechara Rai, the Patriarch of Maronite Christians. Lebanese citizens are…
06.29.14 The advance of ISIS has ended over a thousand years of Christian worship in Mosul—the latest chapter in the long decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Last Sunday, for the…
Further to an earlier report: Qaraqosh (Agenzia Fides) – Qaraqosh is almost a ghost town. More than ninety percent of the more than 40 thousand inhabitants, nearly all Christians of the Syrian…
Contrast this film from autumn 2010, broadcast on French television appealing for help, and what is happening this very day (BBC report of Christians fleeing their villages): 2014-06-26 19:46 GMT Fighting between ISIS…