After almost two years of careful preparation, the first meeting of a new pastoral consultation between Orthodox and Catholics in England took place in Oxford in February 2014. It is jointly sponsored…
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Friday, May 9, 2014 (3:18 am) By Joseph DeCaro, Worthy News Correspondent CAIRO, EGYPT (Worthy News)– One year after Islamists in upper Egypt accused her of committing blasphemy in front of a…
Fr Ioan Sauca (left) and Peter Prove (right) 08 May 2014 Father Ioan Sauca of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Peter Prove, a Lutheran lawyer and international affairs expert from Australia, have…
Posted 2014-03-05 19:22 GMT – AP and Susan Frazer in Ankara ISTANBUL (AP) — Although shut down for more than four decades, one of the Orthodox Church’s most pre-eminent seminaries…
Before reading the next post, it is important to understand why the Greek-Catholic Church in Hungary is helping and serving the Roma people, and why the government there is trying to stop…
The Greek Catholic Church in Hungary has lost a landmark court case to keep open a primary school in a predominantly Roma neighbourhood. Human rights activists successfully argued that the school segregated Roma…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – The Iraqi Ministry of Education has decided to include Syriac and Christian religious education in the currucula of 152 public schools in the provinces of Baghdad, Nineveh and…
Over the past 11 years, the Christian population in Iraq has decreased by more than 75%. It started to decline gradually after 2003, following the overall rise in violence and attacks targeting Christians. Before…
LONDON — Two Christian leaders appealed for unity within and across the different faiths and ethnicities of Iraq at an event celebrating the Christians of Kurdistan in London last week. “We don’t…
UNESCO has listed Assyrian as one of the “definitely endangered languages” of the world. It is one of the oldest languages in the Middle East and a dialect of ancient Aramaic. But…