Through its spokesman, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, the Patriarchate is intensifying its attacks on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at moments of ecumenical encounter between Catholics and Orthodox in wider forums. At…
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A virtual tour of the Ukrainian Christian Tradition’s Mother Church in Kyiv. St. Sophia Cathedral was built in 1037AD and is loved by Catholics and Orthodox alike. Its iconography and structure have for the most…
Sunday, June 1, 2014 Arabic original here. French translation here. Press Conference by His Beatitude Patriarch John X : On the Forthcoming Conference “Antiochian Unity: Its Dimensions and Exigencies”, June 26-28, 2014…
Metropolitan Hilarion Notes Hope That ‘Spiritual Unity’ Expressed in Song Will Be Reflected in Churches’ Relations – but pours cold water on the meeting of Pope Francis, the Ecumenical Patriarch and the Patriarch of…
Moscow, May 28, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has sharply criticized the Ukrainian Greek-Catholics Church. Once again, there is an enduring need to set the context for such remarks…
Kisha D Dorad ( OCP Delegate of Serbia, Balkans and East European Region), OCP News Service – 28/5/14 Athens: With the blessings of Pope Tawadros II a high level delegation of the…
26 May 2014 On May 25 a group of armed members of the terrorist organization “People’s Republic of Luhansk” burst into two polling stations, threatening to injure the members of election commission,…
The encounter between Francis and Bartholomew at the basilica of the Holy Sepulchre. But there’s rupture between the Greek Orthodox patriarchs of Jerusalem and Antioch. And open conflict between Constantinople and Moscow,…
The following report from Catholic Culture indicates the Patriarchate of Moscow making its point that the Patriarch of Constantinople is not an Orthodox “opposite number” to the Bishop of Rome, but only the…
Vatican City, 22 May 2014 (VIS) – The Pontifical Musical Choir of the Sistine Chapel, known as “the Pope’s choir”, will sing in Moscow on 25, 26 and 27 May. The initiative…