Justin Welby is working in Thomas Cranmer’s old study in Lambeth Palace, a room that looks as if it hasn’t changed at all since the Book of Common Prayer was written here almost six centuries ago. It feels like a mini-monastic retreat: there is a desk, a crucifix, several Bibles and not much else. read more
 
"The purpose of the Light of Remembrance project – said its promoter Golda Tencer – is to raise awareness on the dangers connected to religious and ethnic intolerance. The project is addressed to the whole of Polish society, to all those who relate to fundamental human rights: the right to life and to freedom, regardless of ethnicity and religious affiliation.       read more
 
Chaldean Father Thabet Habib Youssef, pastor of the Church of St. Adday in the Christian town of Karamles, on Iraq’s Nineveh Plains, helps oversee the reconstruction and repair of Christian homes and Church properties in Karamles. He spoke with Aid in the Church in Need about the
 
BEIRUT, Lebanon - At a gathering of Middle East leaders coinciding with the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, the Syriac Orthodox patriarch emphasized the need to unify efforts against extremism and terrorism.   read more
 
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — As the United Arab Emirates prepares to host Pope Francis in February, the country’s minister of tolerance said the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula will contribute to building bridges at a time of growing nationalism and insularism around the world.
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ABU DHABI – Pope Francis’ upcoming historic visit to Abu Dhabi, which will begin on Feb. 5, will bring together many prominent leaders from Islam, Christianity, and Judaism from various parts of the region.
 
Despite threats reportedly growing, fewer than 100 of 12,000 Russia-affiliated parishes have joined the new church -  by Mansur Mirovalev
Kyiv, Ukraine - "It wasn't a search, it was a sacrilege," Father Anatoly Kaplyuk said, describing how
 
The Syro Malabar church synod also decided to take action against media outlets that portrayed nuns and priests badly. - 
The Syro Malabar church synod (a meeting of the metropolitans in the church) which concluded on Friday decided to take action against
 
Coptic Christians across Egypt celebrated the Epiphany feast on Saturday evening, amid tightened security measures as governors and executive leaders visited churches to congratulate the Copts.
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President Petro Poroshenko visited the presentation of the book "Dialogue Heals Wounds" by Primate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk. 
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Representatives of bishops' conferences from several countries, including Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, Chairman of the International Justice and Peace Committee of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, met in the Holy Land
 
The Holy Land Coordination stands in solidarity with all Christians in Israel and Palestine. Our ongoing advocacy for a just peace is informed by an annual pilgrimage to meet with our sisters and brothers, listen to them, and witness the challenges they face.
 
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ! Throughout our millennial history, our Church and our people have fully experienced in their bodies the experience of the Paschal Mystery of our Saviour. We have passed through difficult sufferings, have
 
Moscow city authorities have granted a 75,400 square-foot lot to the Armenian Catholic community of the Russian capital for building the city’s first-ever Armenian Catholic Church, the Armenian Catholic Primacy of Armenia, Georgia, Russia and Eastern Europe told Armenpress.   read more
 
Ecumenical initiatives will take place in Stockholm, (where Cardinal Arborelius will also be present), Göteborg, Linköping, Sandviken on January 16 to denounce "systematic flaws in the evaluation processes of asylum applications carried out by the Swedish Migration Agency." The mobilization of communities and parishes. Three concrete proposals  read more
 
"Our millennial history will help us". Between street mosaics, archaeological assets to be restored, photovoltaic energy for reconstruction, and agriculture that calls for peace ---   Finding a place in the Guinness for making the largest wall mosaic in the world with recycled materials deserves vivid eco-artistic compliments.  read more-- leggi tutto
 
The ancient town of Philippopolis will be in the European spotlight throughout all of 2019, along with the Italian city of Matera, European Capital of Culture. Fr Dimitrov, Catholic parish priest of the Holy Ghost church, illustrates citizens’ expectations in a context marked by the
 
Russia could become the protector of the country and of Christians. But in the meantime international powers - such as Britain and France - and regional powers - like Turkey and Israel - are claiming areas of influence, opening up new fronts of
 
As soon as he receives the Tomos of autocephaly, the new Church will address various themes: the governing bodies, the date of Christmas (25 December and / or 7 January); the situation in the Crimea; relations with other Orthodox Churches. The patriarch of Moscow, Kirill, pushes for the isolation of the Ukrainian Church.     read more
 
(Peter Anderson) The Holy Synod of the UOC-KP on December 6 decided that a council of all of the bishops of the UOC-KP would be held on December 13, two days before the unifying council.  Yesterday, the UOC-KP council was held. The official website of the UOC-KP has posted only a brief statement of the decisions made at the meeting. The statement reads as follows:   read more
 
MOSCOW: The head of the Russian Orthodox Church has appealed to the Pope, the U.N. and others in the West to defend a Moscow-aligned Church in Ukraine from "persecution", his office said Friday.  read more
 
Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli has welcomed the Morrison Government’s release of the Religious Freedom Review and its response, which he says will be a focal point for the ongoing debate about religious liberty in Australia.
 
The Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople will hand over a Tomos -- a decree granting independence, or autocephaly -- to the future head of the local Orthodox Church in Ukraine on January 6, Archbishop Yevstratiy, a spokesman for the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate said on December 13. read more
 
The heads of the Churches in Jordan have followed the issue relevant to a posting that insulted an image depicting the Last Supper. This posting is strongly rejected since this image has a holy status in the Church and
 
On the eve of the “Unification Council” in Ukraine, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk published the following reflections: -  “For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to
 
Msgr. Bruno-Marie Duffé - secretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development and coordinator of the Holy See delegation led by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State - at a
 
(Peter Anderson) On the road to the unifying council in Kyiv next Saturday, one must fasten one’s seatbelt because of the many twists and turns.  Today, Monday, was a good example.  In the morning, Filaret, the head of the UOC-KP, was
 
Why should anyone care about Thomas Merton today? --  Merton, the famous Trappist monk and best-selling author, has now been dead for almost as long as he had lived. When he died unexpectedly on Dec. 10, 1968, at the age of 53 while in Asia on
 
ROME (Reuters) - Twenty cobblestones commemorating members of two Italian Jewish families who were deported to Auschwitz or killed in Rome were dug up and stolen in the early hours of Monday in an apparent anti-Semitic attack.
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Below is the statement from Pax Christi International issued on the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.