20 February 2014 Beloved children and friends in Ukraine and abroad, It is with heavy heart that we have been following the ongoing and, indeed, only escalating tragic circumstances in Ukraine over…
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Aleppo (Agenzia Fides) – A year after the kidnapping of the Armenian Catholic priest Mikael Kayal and the Syro-Orthodox priest Maher Mahfouz, which took place on February 9, 2013 on the road…
Patriarch Sviatoslav (right, Ukrainian Catholic leader) and Patriarch Filaret (left, Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kievan Patriarchate) together went to Canada and the USA to raise awareness in the West of the crisis for justice…
On January 29, a global prayer drive will be held from Rome to Beirut for the safe return of the Italian missionary kidnapped in Syria. His abduction is shrouded in mystery and…
The Geneva 2 Conference will be held on 22 January 2014. As president of the Assembly of Catholic Hierarchs in Syria, I address this appeal to my colleagues and beloved bishops, all…
Statue of Saint Thecla near the Maaloula monastery. Photo: Bernard Gagnon The World Council of Churches (WCC) general secretary is calling on the council’s 345 member churches and churches around the world…
By HRH The Prince of Wales 8:19PM GMT 18 Dec 2013 I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts…
ARCHBISHOP BOULOS YAZIGI – Greek Orthodox ARCHBISHOP YOHANNA IBRAHIM – Syrian Orthodox FR MICHEL KAYGAL – Armenian Catholic FR MAHER MAHFOUZ – Greek Orthodox FR PAOLO DALL’OGLIO – Italian Jesuit THE TWELVE…
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…
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…