Our attention has recently been recalled to the following interview granted by Metropolitan Hilarion, chairman of the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, to Kommersant newspaper in December 2013: Metropolitan…
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Emma Green, May 31 2014 In 2025, Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox Christians may return to Nicaea, the spot in modern-day Turkey where Christianity was literally defined. In 325, early followers of…
Historic Hug of Paul VI and Patriarch Remembered in Book 50 Years Later Cardinal Poupard Says Francis’ Repetition of Historic Moment in Holy Land Can Help Unify Church By Deborah Castellano Lubov…
May 14, 2014 By Judith Sudilovsky JERUSALEM — As Pope Francis’s visit to the Holy Land approaches, the trip is being marked with special events, government sessions, online videos and a photography exhibition…
The search for unity A look at the 1,000-year-old divide between the Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic churches — and what’s being done to bring them back together Adam A.J. DeVille OSV Newsweekly …
From Terrasanta – News from the Custody of the Holy Land text and photos di Carlo Giorgi, correspondent | 29 April 2014 The building site of the Latin Catholic church of the…
▶ Pope Francis prays with Head of the Armenian Church, Karekin II – YouTube Pope Francis prayed with the Patriarch of the Armenian Church, Karekin II, at the Vatican’s Redemptoris Mater Chapel.…
The references to martyrdom are in part diplomatic. They are to the mass persecution of ethnic and racial minorities in the dying years of the Ottoman Empire, of whom by far the…
An official report issued by the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums (DGAM) for the Rif Damascus governorate revealed the destruction inflicted upon the city of Maaloula and its historical Christian sites,…
On 30 May 2014 at the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, London, Dr Sotiris Roussos, director of the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies (CEMMIS), Department of Political Studies…