Muslims and Jews must combine to champion tolerance and stop the Isil-inspired hatred across the Middle East Christianity has been part of the essential fabric of the Middle East for two thousand…
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Myroslav Marynovych Anyone who remembers my article “When diplomacy prevails over principles of faith” knows that I was not very hopeful about the planned meeting between Pope Francis and the Patriarch…
“The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God the Father and the fellowship of the holy Spirit be with all of you” (2 Cor 13:13). 1. By God…
Homily for the Feast of the Nativity, 25 December 2015, Church of the Most Precious Blood, Southwark
Mosaic, Shrine of Our Lady Awaiting, Maghdouche, Lebanon courtesy of (c) Aid to the Church in Need It is easy to forget in London, one of the greatest cities of the Western world, as…
Remembering, too, all the victims of persecution. http://youtu.be/5rOtYRs1KwI
The Byzantine Divine Liturgy, in the view of many Western people, is ornate and richly complex. In fact, while the prayers are longer than those in the Latin tradition and an obvious…
What are our leaders doing about religious persecution? – Telegraph Saturday, 25th April, 2015 The recent car bomb explosion in Erbil, in Iraq, came as a particular shock since only five days…
By Richard Spencer, Dora, Baghdad, 22 Dec 2014 Last Christmas in Baghdad? There are just 1,500 Christians left in the suburb of Dora, down from 150,000 a decade ago There will be…
By Sally Williams, 29 Nov 2014 On August 6 Isil fighters seized control of the largest Christian city in Iraq. Militants had first attacked Qaraqoshsix weeks earlier as they surged through north-western Iraq,…
We, Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, express our profound gratitude to God for the gift of this new encounter enabling us, in the presence of the members of the Holy…