21 June, 2014 AMMONNEWS – The General Secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Fr. Michel Jalakh, called the Presidents of the Council to an extraordinary meeting in Amman, Jordan,…
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By Richard Spencer, Bartella 6:00PM BST 21 Jun 2014 Captain Firaz Jacob knows he may well be mounting a last stand at the frontiers of the Christian settlement of Bartella on the…
Patriarch Ignatius Youssef Younan of Antioch is the leader of the Syriac Catholic Church. He spoke June 17 with EWTN News Nightly producer Kathryn Elliott from Lebanon, where he has been living…
June 16-21 2014 “Strengthened by the Holy Spirit that sustains our weaknesses, we support each other … In order to be forever salt and leaven in this land of ours,” says Gregorios III.…
Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – The city of Aleppo has been without water again for two days. The repeated suspension of water supplies in recent weeks has become an instrument of pressure in…
10 June, 2014 Pope Francis has named Cardinal Jozef Tomko, the retired Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, as his special envoy to mark the 25th anniversary of the…
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Message of the IV Catholic-Orthodox European Forum Minsk, Belarus, 2 to 6 June 2014 The IV Catholic-Orthodox Forum on Religion and Cultural Diversity: Challenges for the Christian Churches in Europe was held in…
Pope Francis in the Holy Land, 24-26 May 2014 Pope Francis’ visit to the Holy Land is a call to dialogue and encounter, a call to excel and transcend walls and borders, says…
Sunday, June 1, 2014 Arabic original here. French translation here. Press Conference by His Beatitude Patriarch John X : On the Forthcoming Conference “Antiochian Unity: Its Dimensions and Exigencies”, June 26-28, 2014…