On 6 June 2014, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations (DECR), met with the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East of the Syrian…
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Fr Robin Gibbons, July 14, 2014 My Patriarch, Gregorious III Laham, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch of Antioch (my own diocese) visited London this last weekend. He gave a talk at the Centre…
By Michael Glackin, http://www.indcatholicnews.com, 11 July 2014 I met Saad on a sweltering hot day, 90 degrees in September no less, just as we were both leaving Pope Benedict XVI’s Papal Mass…
July 07, 2014, Michael J. Miller Ankawa (kath.net/ACN). The emigration of Christians from Iraq will greatly accelerate. The Head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, expressed this opinion in…
The Russian president is neither a Tsar or a Communist, but his foreign policy shows little difference from either By Fr Alexander Lucie-Smith on Tuesday, 1 July 2014 The continuities of history…
To His Holiness and Beatitude Pope Francis of Senior Rome: rejoice in the Lord. Once more, the joyous day is dawning for the venerable feast and sacred remembrance of the chief Apostles…
Islamist armed robbers and rapists to Christians: leave, pay tax, or die 30 June 2014, Rome Reports During his morning Mass at Santa Marta, the Pope said that there are many Christians…
Baghdad, June 30, 2014 (Zenit.org) Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been returning to their homes in the north of the country, days after they fled villages under attack by Sunni Muslim extremists.…
2014-06-29 Homily of H.B. Patriarch John X In the Holy Liturgy celebrated at Balamand on June 29th 2014 on the Feast of the Antiochian See “O Antioch lift up your eyes and…
06.29.14, Peter Schwartzstein, The Daily Beast Reeling from regional developments and disillusioned with the West, some Iraqi Christians are looking to Russia for support. After a decade of church bombings, targeted killings,…