DAMASCUS (AP) — The patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who led one of the world’s oldest Christian sects, was buried in a village near Damascus on Friday after an elaborate memorial…
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March 26th, 2014, By Lou Baldwin Three archbishops — Roman Catholic, Ukrainian Catholic and Ukrainian Orthodox — joined together in prayers for peace at Philadelphia’s Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on…
March 14, 2014 The announced 2016 council of Eastern Orthodox Churches is historic, but expectations should be modest Fr. Cyril Hovorun, Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) An Assembly (Synaxis) of the Primates…
Sunday Telegraph. 8 March 2014 Today, the first Sunday of Lent, will see churches crowded across the globe. But here in Syria, where St Paul found his faith, many churches stand empty,…
Budapest, March 4, 2014 During the two-day visit of His Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople to Hungary on March 2-3, he met with Prime Minister Viktor Orban. A cooperation agreement between the…
03/04/2014 14:51 – Asia News For Mar Sako, “Our future is here, not in the countries of the Diaspora”. He slams mafias and traffickers who “encourage emigration”, bemoaning the fact that without…
The president of the Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC ) has been awarded the Mar Osthathios Puraskaram Award. Presented by His Beatitude Baselios Mar Thomas Poulose II, primate of the Indian…
Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – “The Church towards a better future”. This is the title of the Synod of Bishops of the Coptic Orthodox Church in Cairo to be held from February 17…
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,…