Orthodox Patriarch, Anglican leader to attend Vatican II celebration
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service 19/9/2012VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury will join Pope Benedict XVI’s...
View ArticleSyrian Christian refugees turn to churches for help
James Martone Catholic News Service 28/3/13ISTANBUL Churches and monasteries in Turkey are struggling to shelter a rising number of Syrian Christian refugees who are reluctant to seek help at...
View ArticleSyria’s war creates havoc, priest’s whereabouts unknown, nuncio says
Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service – 31/7/13VATICAN CITY – The war in Syria is like a factory churning out nothing but death, destruction and suffering, said Archbishop Mario Zenari, Vatican nuncio to...
View ArticleItalian official says ‘it seems’ Italian Jesuit was kidnapped in Syria
Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service 7/8/13Vatican: After more than a week with no word from Jesuit Fr. Paolo Dall’Oglio, an Italian priest who worked for decades in Syria, Italian Foreign Minister Emma...
View ArticleAustrian Roman Catholic Parishes handedover to Orthodox Churches
22/12/13Vienna Archdiocese defends giving churches to Orthodox.Catholic News ServiceAustria’s Vienna Archdiocese has defended its gifts of Catholic churches to Orthodox communities, as part of a...
View ArticleRoman Catholic Convent, Maronite Village Latest Targets of Vandals in Israel
By Judith SudilovskyCatholic News Service – April 2014JERSULALEM — A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in recent weeks as a two-year wave of...
View ArticleChaldean Patriarch Urges Moderate Muslims to Challenge Extremist Acts
Archbishop Louis Sako is the patriarch of the Iraq-based Chaldean Church, one of the world’s most ancient Christian communities (Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty Images).Catholic News Service – 22/1/14VIENNA —...
View ArticleAustralian Bishops Who Visited Iraqi Christians See Christ Reborn Again
Abu and Um Sabah, pose outside their tent Oct. 26 in a park in Ainkawa, Iraq. One of their sons, Saleh, has traveled to Jordan with his family in the hope of moving elsewhere in the West far from...
View ArticleAs Some Mideast Countries Empty of Christians, Lebanese Numbers Swell
An Iraqi Christian refugee girl holds a souvenir of the Holy Family Dec. 12 as a boy looks on at a church in Hazmiyeh, near Beirut (CNS photo/Jamal Saidi, Reuters).By Brooke Anderson Catholic News...
View ArticleVatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis
RT.com – 23/12/16In his annual Christmas speech, Pope Francis slammed Vatican officials for pushing back against reforms that the pontiff has been pushing forward since 2013, saying that those taking...
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