The Byzantine Divine Liturgy, in the view of many Western people, is ornate and richly complex. In fact, while the prayers are longer than those in the Latin tradition and an obvious…
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From the Phanar, Bartholomew and Francis both called for full communion between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches Gianni Valente, Istanbul, 11/30/2014 “The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I…
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…
Your Holiness, In offering glory to the all-good God in Trinity, we welcome You and Your honorable entourage to this sacred place, the hierarchal See of the historical and martyric Church charged…
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…
Sunday 27 July 2014, Paul Vallely, The Independent The former Chief Rabbi is appalled at the lack of protest about the treatment of Christians round the globe, and so should we be…
A view from Reformed Christianity in the USA, But NB it is mistaken about the make-up of Christians in Iraq – very few are Roman Catholic; there is no mention of the…
Further to Metropolitan Hilarion’s recognition of the Donetsk People’s Republic and its terrorists as legitimate “authorities”, news of another series of atrocities at its hands, this time directed against fellow Christians – non-Moscow Orthodox…
Fazel Hawramy in Irbil, The Guardian, Thursday 24 July 2014 12.54 BST Iraqi Christians who were forced to flee the northern city of Mosul under threat of forced conversion or execution by…
By Christopher Howse, 25 Jul 2014 The persecuted Christians in Iraq and Syria share a history of holiness and literary and theological culture of which the West is largely ignorant There is…