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…
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17-20 September 2014 Sacred Art & Sacred Music 50 Years Since Paul VI and Athenagoras in Jerusalem Dr Alexander Lingas & Dr Christopher Hodkinson, Musicians East and West Angela Maguin, Gregorian Chant…
07/21/2014, Giorgio Bernardelli Chaldean website ankawa.com says a university professor was killed after speaking out against anti-Christian persecution. Meanwhile, the Islamic State has set the jizyah at 450 dollars He refused to…
21 July 2014, 16:25 Islamist militants in Iraq are reported to have seized an ancient monastery near Mosul and expelled the monks. Local residents said monks at the Mar Behnam monastery were allowed…
July 17, 2014, Benjamin Mann My perspective on celibacy is an unusual one. Shortly after I became a Christian, at age 21, I began thinking about forgoing marriage – even though I…
Unique cave monastery complex of 12th-13th centuries in Georgia to be conserved / OrthoChristian.Com
Vardzia, July 10, 2014, OrthoChristian-Pravoslavie.ru Vardzia is the cave monastery complex of the 12th-13th centuries in the valley of the Kura river, situated about 70 kilometers south of the town of Borjomi.…
PRAVMIR. July 8, 2014. Archpriest Roman Baranovsky, confessor of the St. Panteleimon Athonite metochion in Kiev, related how their church has been assisting refugees from the Donetsk and Lugansk regions. For several…
05 July 2014 – Patriarchia.ru The monks of the Holy Transfiguration Valaam monastery have sheltered 116 refugees from Eastern Ukraine in their metochion in Priozersk. This was related by Vasily Rulinsky, press…
Most Russians (43%) would treat as quite favourable their close relative’s decision to enter a monastery. PRAVMIR. July 1, 2014. The All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) has reported what, according to…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – Since Saturday 28th June we have no news regarding Sisters Atur and Miskinta, two Chaldean religious women of the Congregation of the Daughters of Mary Immaculate, who had…