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East-West Monastic Meeting VIII, Turvey Abbey, November 2009

The latest in the admirable line of Christian East-West Meetings, hosted in a monastic context, will take place at Turvey Abbey, Bedfordshire, on Saturday 14 November 2009, 10.30 to 4.30. Envisioning a…

Pope’s concern over attacks on churches in Iraq

The Vatican Information Service reports, 14th July 2009: Pope Benedict XVI has expressed his concern over last weekend’s attacks on eight Christian churches in Baghdad and Mosul, Iraq, which left four people…

Support the Christians of the Holy Land

The Vatican Information Service reports: This morning the Holy Father received participants in the annual general meeting of the Reunion of Organisations for Aid to the Oriental Churches (ROACO). The meeting had…

Pamela Sandilands, Dowager Lady Torpichen

Fr John Salter writes: Pamela Torphichen was a devout Roman Catholic and a keen ecumenist long before it became acceptable or fashionable to be so. It was while at school at the…

Melkite Celebrations for the Closing month of the Year of Saint Paul

On Sunday 7th. June, in the evening, His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III, together with four bishops, celebrated the Divine Liturgy at Mismiyeh, where Saint Paul is traditionally thought to have stayed during…

Pope Benedict arrives in the Holy Land

The Vatican Information Service reports, 11 May 2009: At 11 a.m. local time today, Benedict XVI arrived at Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, where he was greeted by Shimon Peres,…