By Giuseppe Nardi in Katholisches.info, translated by “Tancred Vekron99”, with grateful acknowledgement (Damascus) Islamist rebels have launched an offensive north of Damascus to Deir Atieh. In the city with a population…
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Bülent Arinç, Turkey’s deputy prime minister, said that the famed Hagia Sophia church in Istanbul should again become a mosque – prompting a sharp reaction from Greece’s foreign ministry. Dedicated in 537,…
Ecumenism is growing “from the bottom up,” the leader of the world’s largest Eastern-rite Catholic Church said in an interview with Vatican Insider. Patriarch Sviatoslav Shevchuk of the Ukrainian Catholic Church said that…
On the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the Holodomor—the man-made, Stalin-era famine in Ukraine and adjacent Cossack territories in 1932 and 1933, during which millions died of starvation—His Beatitude, Metropolitan Tikhon…
Damascus (Agenzia Fides) – Militants of Islamist factions have invaded the town of Deir Atieh, north of Damascus, spreading terror, death and destruction. As Fides sources in the Greek Orthodox Church report,…
11:30AM EST 11/21/2013 Eric J. Lyman/RNS Eric J Lyman in Charisma News: Next week’s summit between Pope Francis and Russian President Vladmir Putin may be the most important meeting between a…
Amman (Agenzia Fides) – A strong appeal to promote and concretely support pilgrimages to Places of Christian memory in Jordan was addressed on Thursday, November 21 by the Jordanian Minister for Labour…
Edward Pentin of Terra Santa (the news service of the Custody of the Holy Land) writes: (Rome) – When Russian President Vladimir Putin visits Pope Francis on Nov. 25th, persecuted Christians in…
Read the report here: Metropolitan Hilarion attends conference on protecting the family : Department for External Church Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church The joint Communique from the Pontifical Council for the…
This superb article by Robert Arakaki is an excellent treatment of worship as understood by Christians – and these days, maybe ONLY by Orthodox Christians. Within the past few decades, a new…