Cairo (Agenzia Fides) – On the day of his oath as the new President of Egypt, former General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi paid tribute with demanding words with regards to the role carried…
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On the eve of the beginning of the month of Ramadan this year, “a month of forgiveness, compassion, and generous giving,” His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East,…
Posted 2014-05-28 Amman – His Royal Highness Prince Al Hassan Bin Talal, the president of the Arab Thought Forum and the Royal Institute for Inter-faith Studies received on Wednesday Patriarch Louis Raphael…
05/22/2014 10:53 Mar Sako makes a pastoral visit to the diocese of Alqosh, on the northern end of the plain. His Beatitude meets with the local clergy, presides at a Eucharistic procession…
Khartoum, May 18, 2014 (Zenit.org) Valentina Colombo “I am a Christian, I have not apostatized.” Thus Sudanese Doctor Maryam Yahya Ibrahim, declared to the court, after a Muslim religious tried for 30…
The freedom to choose and practice one’s faith is a fundamental right for all under international law, and yet we continue to see numerous tragic cases around the world in which that…
Christianity is Essential to the Middle East’s Fabric http://www.thenational.ae 2014-05-13 A gesture can sometimes speak more loudly than actions. Witness the meetings this week between Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of…
When Pope Francis and Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople meet this month in Jerusalem, the buzz probably will be about two milestones from the past: 1054, when Eastern and Western Christianity split, and…
Bartholomew I, spiritual leader of 250 million Orthodox Christians, praised Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for improving rights for Christians, but added pointedly, “it is not enough.” In an interview with…
This is relevant not just for Christian-Muslim Dialogue, and the Holy See’s relations with Turkey in respect of the Latin Roman Catholic Church community in Turkey, it also has bearings on ecumenical…