I first met Father Alexander fifty-seven years ago, shortly after he came to London. He came to dinner with me at King’s College Hostel, where I was a theological student. Over the…
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Fr Mark Woodruff, Vice-Chairman, writes: With great sadness we learn this morning that Father Alexander, our past Chairman, reposed in the Lord late on Wednesday evening 15th April. For decades he has been the…
5 July 2014 On behalf of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Patriarch Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) extended his condolences to the UOC-MP in connection with the departure into eternity of Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan). This…
In the morning of Saturday, July 5, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) Metropolitan Volodymyr (Sabodan) passed away. The day before, on July 4, the results of the medical…
Vatican City, 5 June 2014 (VIS) – At 11.30 this morning, at the major altar of St. Peter’s Basilica, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, dean of the College of Cardinals, presided at the funeral…
Father Frans van der Lugt was a Jesuit priest who displayed courage, humanity and faith under siege in the Syrian city of Homs. Executed by a single masked gunman, he remained with the people…
Vatican City, April 09, 2014 (Zenit.org) Here is the telegram sent by Pope Francis’ message of condolence upon hearing of the news of the death of His Beatitude Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly,…
DAMASCUS (AP) — The patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, who led one of the world’s oldest Christian sects, was buried in a village near Damascus on Friday after an elaborate memorial…
Pope Francis has sent a telegram of condolences to the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and all the East upon the death of Patriarch Ignatius Zakka Iwas, who passed away in a…
Posted 2014-03-21, Assyrian International News Agency Germany (AINA) — His Holiness Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, Patriarch of the Assyrian Orthodox Church, died Friday morning from a heart attack in a hospital in…