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…
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Asia News, 2014-07-22 by Fady Noun “We hear no one cry out” against the brutal behavior that contradicts 1,400 years of history of the Islamic world. The Syriac-Catholic patriarch calls on the…
By Tim Stanley World Last updated: July 21st, 2014 For the first time in 1,600 years, Mass is not being said in Mosul: an ancient culture has been wiped out in a…
Vatican City, 21 July 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, celebrated Mass in the Maronite Cathedral of Our Lady of Lebanon in Los…
21 July 2014, 16:25 Islamist militants in Iraq are reported to have seized an ancient monastery near Mosul and expelled the monks. Local residents said monks at the Mar Behnam monastery were allowed…
Here is the full translation of the interview granted by the Syriac Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Ignace Joseph III Younan, to Sergio Cenofanti of Vatican Radio (in Italian). Ignace Joseph III Younan…
Muslims Attack 1800 Year Old Christian Church, And Completely Burn the Archbishopric | Walid Shoebat
While the Christian British government says nothing; while the BBC thinks none of the systematic extirpation of Christians in its ancient lands is worth covering … By Walid Shoebat and Theodore Shoebat…
This excellent post from Seraphim from a “Byzantine Chesterton” viewpoint, is well worth taking to heart: Prolegomena to Ecumenism Saturday, June 28, 2014 The recent and continuing expressions of outrage by the…
On 26th June, Interfax, the Russian state news service with a particular focus on the works and policy of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, carried yet another diatribe from…
July 17, 2014, Benjamin Mann My perspective on celibacy is an unusual one. Shortly after I became a Christian, at age 21, I began thinking about forgoing marriage – even though I…