Philadelphia, Pa., Jan 31, 2014 / 01:32 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia called on Catholics to pray for the Church in Ukraine during the country’s recent crisis and…
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As reported by Interfax, the head of the Synodal Department of the Russian Orthodox Church on Church-Society, Vsevolod Chaplin, called the Maydanivskyy movement in Ukraine the “new horde.” Chaplin also believes that the…
Moscow (Agenzia Fides) – On Sunday, January 26th Patriarch of Moscow, Kirill and the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Yohanna X Yazigi made a joint appeal to the “Geneva II” international Conference…
On January 15, 2014, the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCOR) clarified its vision for the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America. This came in the form of…
Dear participants in the conference, Today the world expects from you decisive actions aimed at settling by peaceful means the sanguinary conflict in Syria. It is hard to overestimate the responsibility that…
Vatican City, January 13, 2014 (Zenit.org) | 208 hits Pope Francis has encouraged a Vatican-run organisation aimed at fostering cultural collaboration between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches. The…
Jamie Dettmer, of The Daily Beast, writes: The Vatican announced last week that Pope Francis will visit the Middle East in May, 50 years after Paul VI’s historic visit—but will any Christians…
Thanks to Fr James Siemens, we are pleased to be able to carry in translation this critique from an Orthodox academic of the Moscow Patriarchate’s comments on events in Ukraine and their…
This post contains the strongly worded response from the Ecumenical Patriarchate on the Moscow Patriarchate’s Statement on Primacy in the Universal Church, itself a negative response to the Ravenna Statement of the…
This statement was approved by the Holy Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church earlier in 2013, but released on December 26th (Gregorian). When the Joint International Theological Commission of…