The worst Christian massacre–complete with mass graves, tortured-to-death women and children, and destroyed churches–recently took place in Syria, at the hands of the U.S.-supported jihadi “rebels”; and the U.S. government and its…
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Vatican City, November 22, 2013 (Zenit.org) | Christians in Damascus are clinging to hope despite the rising death toll in the ongoing conflict in Syria. In an interview with Catholic charity Aid…
In Rome on November 27 – in the Diocese of Westminster, the Day of Prayer will be December 4th, the feast of St John of Damascus EUROPE/ITALY – In Rome, a prayer…
The rise of religious extremism has pushed religious communities to migrate from Iraq, especially Christians, according to Patriarch Louis Raphael Sako, Patriarch of the Chaldeans in Iraq. The patriarch called on the…
Running from assault, abduction, and assassination at the hands of jihadists and FSA rebels, Syria’s ancient Christian community fears a religious pogrom is set to erupt. Traumatized by what they have…
I’m not sure whether Western countries hear my appeal or have lost their sense of humanity. This was belongs in the battlefield, not in schools, churches and homes BEIRUT: Greek Catholic Patriarch…
At the Sunday Angelus, Francis speaks of Jesus ‘discourse ‘ about the end of time” and in unscripted remarks recalls the “brothers and sisters in many parts of the world who are…
MAR GIRGIS MONASTERY, Egypt (AP) — There is no sign of the hundreds of thousands of Christian pilgrims who flock here every November. No tattoo artists inscribing crosses on the wrists of…
Hopes are high, ahead of the meeting of the Catholic patriarchs of the Middle East with the Pope. Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, which is…
The BBC pursues, in an officially Christ-professing kingdom where every owner of a TV pays for it, its secularist editorial line of ignoring the story of a vast surge in anti-Christian violence,…