By Paul de Maeyer, ROME, FEB. 18, 2011 thanks to Zenit.org. Not even the Mongols of the 14th century, when they killed 40 monks and some 400 faithful, succeeded in making one of…
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ANKAWA, Iraq, JAN. 31, 2011 thanks to Zenit.org. The Iraqi Chaldean Archdiocese of Arbil is moving forward with plans to construct a hospital and a university, providing services and jobs for thousands of…
ROME, 25th January 2011, thanks to Zenit.org. Here is a translation of the homily Benedict XVI delivered today at the closing vespers of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, held at…
Interview With Orthodox Coptic Bishop Barnabas El Soryany By Serena Sartini ROME, JAN. 12, 2011 (Zenit.org).- Though forgiveness is the way to respond to the Jan. 1 attack on an Orthodox Coptic…
JERUSALEM, JAN. 11, 2011 (Zenit.org). Here is the address delivered Monday by Latin Patriarch Fouad Twal of Jerusalem to to the Orthodox community of Jerusalem at the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. The meeting…
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 6, 2011 (Zenit.org).- The 1st January 2011 bombing at the Coptic Church of the Saints in Alexandria that claimed the lives of 21 people leaving the Liturgy is a “despicable act of…
A CALL TO PRAYER AND FOR LIVING VOICES FOR JUSTICE Ukrainians throughout the world will commemorate the 77th anniversary of the genocidal famine, the “HOLODOMOR”, which was perpetuated by Joseph Stalin and the…
KIRKUK, Iraq, DEC. 22, 2010 (Zenit.org).- Due to the ongoing violence against Iraqi Christians, Christmas Eve midnight Mass has been cancelled, and the Church has taken on an attitude of sobriety instead…
STRASBOURG, France, DEC. 9, 2010 (Zenit.org). Next week a delegation of Iraqi bishops will address the European Parliament in Strasbourg about the situation of Christians in their country. “We want Europe and…
ROME, DEC. 6, 2010 (Zenit.org). An elderly Christian couple was killed in their home Sunday night in Baghdad, the latest in a string of attacks against Christians that grew particularly severe with…