by MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS, 04/19/2014 FAMAGUSTA, Cyprus (AP) — An unexpected moment during the Good Friday service in a long-abandoned church in Cyprus’ breakaway north illustrated how religion is helping to bring together…
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Paschal Letter 2014 20 April 2014 Of His Beatitude Gregorios III Patriarch of Antioch and All the East Of Alexandria and of Jerusalem I You too have a resurrection …
by Mar Louis Raphael I Sako The wars in Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have made things worse for their peoples, especially minorities. As Western policies have been a failure, fundamentalism has grown…
by Elias D. Mallon, S.A., Ph.D. With mostly bad news coming out of the Middle East, it is encouraging to see that Christians and Muslims are working together in Lebanon to…
19 March 2014 On February 24th of this year, a group of Egyptian workers in Libya was rounded up by an Islamist gang. It is normal for Egyptian Copts to bear witness…
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in Kyiv is reporting that it has verified that three more of its priests have been abducted. The priest in Gorky (pictured) also serves as a military chaplain, like…
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…
03/06/2014 12:28 TURKEY, by NAT da Polis Speaking to a group of visiting scholars at the Phanar, Bartholomew I defends the building’s Christian roots, pledging opposition by all Orthodox, Catholic, and Protestant…
by NAT da Polis, 27-2-2014 – Asia News Made many times but never kept, the promise to reopen the Halki Theological School is another of the prime minister’s mad ideas. So far,…
by Fady Noun The Pope Emeritus told Patriarch al-Rahi that he prays every day for the country that gave him “unforgettable moments.” Today, major figures in Christian circles and among the elite…