Catholic World Report – Global Church news and views, February 26, 2016 It seems that Cuba and Crete, two islands as remote from each other as can be, both geographically and culturally,…
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In much of the world, Friday’s historic meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia in Havana, Cuba, will be hailed as a breakthrough. Attitudes are more mixed, however,…
Your Holiness Pope Francis, beloved brother in Christ, bishop of Senior Rome, We offer glory and praise to our God in Trinity for deeming us worthy of the ineffable joy and special…
In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit We denounce Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. We condemn the forced expulsion of the Christians of Mosul in Iraq. We…
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…
07/08/2014, by Nina Achmatova The Assembly of bishops is set to meet on 13 August. Moscow wants to prevent the proclamation of autocephaly and unity with the Orthodox Church of Kyiv. Ukrainian…
2 July 2014, RISU The Churches of World Orthodoxy are affected by the situation in Ukraine. Therefore the way to the Pan-Orthodox council to which many Christians are looking forward will to…
30 June 2014 On June 26, 2014 the Bishops’ Council of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church met in a session in Kyiv. The meeting was chaired by Primate of the UAOC Methodius…
“There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.” Echoing Patriarch Athenagoras’ remarks on the election of Pope Saint John Paul II, His Beatitude Gregorios III, Patriarch of Antioch and…
21/05/2014 The Pope’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land marks the 50th anniversary of a crucial step towards Catholic-Orthodox unity. An historic meeting took place in Jerusalem in 1964 between Pope Paul VI…