06/23/2014 In an official statement, the local Church calls on the parties to use reason and set up a national unity government that represents all citizens. War will not deliver any winners…
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06/23/2014 by Marta Allevato In an interview with AsiaNews on the sidelines of the ROACO meeting in the Vatican, Mgr Sviatoslav Shevchuk speaks about the conclusions of the last Synod. He also…
21 June, 2014 AMMONNEWS – The General Secretary of the Middle East Council of Churches (MECC), Fr. Michel Jalakh, called the Presidents of the Council to an extraordinary meeting in Amman, Jordan,…
To His Holiness, Kirill, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Your Holiness: Grace and peace in our Lord Jesus Christ. Remembering with pleasure our meeting in Washington some years ago, I…
Mosul (Agenzia Fides) – “In the villages in the Nineveh plain that accommodated part of the population fled from Mosul, the situation is worsening day by day. There has been no water…
Patriarch Kirill warms to his usual theme that Ukraine is not Ukraine but “the southern regions of historic Rus”, meaning a Russian area. You might just as well say that Muscovy is merely…
14 June 2014 It will be a weekend of remembrance for hundreds of Orthodox Christians in Gloucestershire with special prayer services for Ukraine and Russia. St. John Chrysostom, Greek Orthodox Church, Bentham,…
Your presence, dear Presidents, is a great sign of brotherhood which you offer as children of Abraham. It is also a concrete expression of trust in God, the Lord of history, who…
Beit Jala (Agenzia Fides) – The event is scheduled for this afternoon at 4.30p.m. in the Cremisan valley, the “green lung” of Bethlehem, which is on the planned route of the separation…
Metropolitan Hilarion (Shukalo) of Donetsk, of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate, has distanced himself from the parties in conflict in the East and warns: “There can be no blessings for those who…