Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako urged Shiites and Sunnis in parliament to compromise on their differences and unite to save Iraq. by ELISE HARRIS/CNA/EWTN NEWS 07/17/2014 VATICAN CITY — Patriarch Louis Raphael…
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Washington, D.C., July 15, 2014 (Zenit.org) Samuel Tadros The coup removing President Morsi in July last year did not bring the Copts of Egypt the relief that many hoped for. Constitutional equality…
2014-07-15 (AINA) ISIS has ordered government workers to stop giving rations to Christians and Shiites in Mosul, according to a report by Younes Thonon for ankawa.com. The official in charge of distributing…
Baghdad (Agenzia Fides) – On the afternoon of Monday, July 14 the two Chaldean nuns and three young children – two girls and a boy – who were seized on June 28 last…
Sacred Mysteries: Russians who sought reunion with Rome felt the pinch, by Christopher Howse, 14 Jun 2014 Vladimir Putin hardly seems a pattern of holiness, but he has aligned himself with the…
Fr Robin Gibbons, July 14, 2014 My Patriarch, Gregorious III Laham, Greek Catholic Melkite Patriarch of Antioch (my own diocese) visited London this last weekend. He gave a talk at the Centre…
Mosul, July 14, 2014 The ISIS terrorist organization that seized a part of Iraq has published on the internet a video with one shocking moment – a militant in black clothes with…
2014-07-15, Mosul (AINA) ISIS removed the cross on top of the dome of St. Ephrem Cathedral in the Shoorta neighborhood in Mosul, one week after the church was seized by ISIS members…
The Melkite and other Catholic Patriarchs and the Syriac Orthodox Patriarch in attendance The following official translation has been provided by the Patriarchate of Antioch: The Third Ordinary Session of the Holy…
Moscow, July 8, 2014 The martyrs for the faith in the 20th century included in the database of Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities (Moscow) number currently about 35,000 people, reported rector…