With great joy, the Society welcomes the creation of a diocese in Britain for the Eastern Catholic faithful belonging to the Syro-Malabar Church in the United Kingdom. With particular gladness we welcome the…
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Centre for Continuing Education, Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford Anthony O’Mahony Director of the Centre for Eastern Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London and Research Fellow, Blackfriars, University of Oxford …
What are our leaders doing about religious persecution? – Telegraph Saturday, 25th April, 2015 The recent car bomb explosion in Erbil, in Iraq, came as a particular shock since only five days…
By Richard Spencer, Dora, Baghdad, 22 Dec 2014 Last Christmas in Baghdad? There are just 1,500 Christians left in the suburb of Dora, down from 150,000 a decade ago There will be…
By Sally Williams, 29 Nov 2014 On August 6 Isil fighters seized control of the largest Christian city in Iraq. Militants had first attacked Qaraqoshsix weeks earlier as they surged through north-western Iraq,…
We, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, express our profound gratitude to God for the gift of this new encounter enabling us, in the presence of the members of the Holy…
Andrew White, an English clergyman known as the Anglican “Vicar of Baghdad,” has seen violence and persecution against Christians unprecedented in recent decades. In the video embedded below, he recounts the story of…
The Catholic & Orthodox Pastoral Consultation in England, meeting in London for its 2nd Session, wishes to add its voice of support and union in prayer to the Apostolic Churches of Iraq…
Today, the Feast of the Nativity of the Virgin brings glad tidings to the universe. My prayer is for joy to fill the hearts of millions of people in our Arab countries,…
Sunday of Christ Walking on the Water, Ninth Sunday after Pentecost, 10th August 2014, Ukrainian Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Holy Family, London Troparion of the Resurrection, Tone 8. You came down…