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Bulgaria's Orthodox Patriarch Neophyte Anticipates to Conduct a Liturgy With Russia's Patriarch Kirill

Dettagli: Created: 01 Marzo 2018

Sofia, Bulgaria - Patriarch Neophyte of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church expressed his anticipation of the three-day visit from the Russian Patriarch Kirill starting on March 2, 2018.

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SYRIA Saving the children of Aleppo, at risk of becoming a ‘lost’ generation

Dettagli: Created: 28 Febbraio 2018

More than 150 young people, aged 6 to 13, are taking after-school courses organised by the city’s Latin parish. For Fr Ibrahim, they are "the most fragile and need all kind of help”. Many of them are “difficult” cases. The programme includes

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ISRAEL The Holy Sepulcher reopens, after standoff over taxes

Dettagli: Created: 28 Febbraio 2018

Netanyahu makes a u-turn and freezes the controversial bill. Christian leaders: We thank God, the Churches will continue to work to protect the Christian presence, still threatened by many difficulties.

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Christian leaders shut Jerusalem's Church of Holy Sepulchre in dispute with Israelis

Dettagli: Created: 27 Febbraio 2018

Jerusalem (CNN)The large wooden doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre look more like a dam holding back a flood of pilgrims seeking to glimpse the spot where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected.

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Statement on Municipal threats and the discriminatory “Church Lands Bill”

Dettagli: Created: 27 Febbraio 2018

We, the heads of Churches in charge of the Holy Sepulcher and the Status Quo governing the various Christian Holy Sites in Jerusalem - the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, the Custody of the Holy Land and the Armenian Patriarchate - are following with great

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Polish priest says on public TV that truth for Jews is whatever’s beneficial to them

Dettagli: Created: 27 Febbraio 2018

(JTA) — Representatives of Polish Jews have complained to the state media watchdog about a public broadcaster airing an interview with a priest who said Jews have a unique understanding of the concept of truth.

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Syria’s fragile UN truce at risk amid new government raids in east Ghouta

Dettagli: Created: 26 Febbraio 2018

The latest assault began a day after the declaration of the 30-day ceasefire on humanitarian grounds. Iranian official: the truce does not concern terrorist groups, operations in the area will continue. Unconfirmed sources speak of new chemical attacks. Yesterday at the Angelus the appeal of

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Jordan condemns Israeli moves against Jerusalem churches

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

Minister of State for Media Affairs and the government spokesperson Mohammad Momani, on Sunday, February 25, condemned the recent Israeli actions against churches and their property in Jerusalem.

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outside of the closed doors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalems Old City. AFP PHOTO GALI TIBBON

After Holy Sepulchre locked, bill allowing seizure of former church land shelved

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

Catholics and Orthodox launch protest over a proposed property law and a Jerusalem municipality bid to make churches pay back taxes

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Liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow

В Неделю Торжества Православия Предстоятель Русской Церкви совершил Литургию в Храме Христа Спасителя в Москве

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

25 февраля 2018 года, в Неделю 1-ю Великого поста, Торжества Православия, Иверской иконы Божией Матери, святителя Алексия, митрополита Киевского, Московского и всея Руси, чудотворца, Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл

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Church leaders shut Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre in land, tax protest

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

By Ori Lewis - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called an unprecedented attack on Christians in the Holy Land.

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Pope says Syria being 'martyred', urges humanitarian aid for Ghouta

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

“All this is inhuman,” Francis told tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square for his weekly blessing. He spoke hours after the United Nations adopted a resolution demanding a 30-day truce across Syria to allow aid access and medical evacuation.

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Card. Parolin to Zenit: Enough Indifference Toward Those Suffering for Their Faith!

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

“There are millions of people in the world who are suffering for their faith, and we pretend as though it were nothing,” the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, denounced to Zenit on Saturday, February 24, in front of the

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Asia Bibi family appeal to Pope Francis for help

Dettagli: Created: 25 Febbraio 2018

Asia Bibi and Rebecca Bitrus 'represent models for a society that today is afraid of pain', said Pope Francis

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TURKEY – CYPRUS – ITALY Turkish ships block Italian drilling ship in Cypriot waters NAT da Polis

Dettagli: Created: 24 Febbraio 2018

The Saipem drilling platform, which operates under license from the Cypriot government, was supposed to resume its activities. Turkey rejects the agreements signed by the Cypriot government with Israel and Egypt, claiming that they harm the

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Pope makes statement by meeting victims of anti-Christian persecution

Dettagli: Created: 24 Febbraio 2018

ROME - Although it’s basically apocryphal, a saying attributed to St. Francis of Assisi advises, “Preach always, and, when necessary, use words.” Popes, of course, use a lot of words, but they also find plenty of other ways to preach - in gestures, through their travel, in policy decisions and

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ISRAEL Deportation of Migrants: arrest of first seven Eritreans who refuse to leave Israel

Dettagli: Created: 21 Febbraio 2018

Two of them survived torture in the Sinai. Refugees from the Holot detention center launch a hunger strike: "They are throwing our lives away". Israel wants to expel 15-20 thousand refugees, the prisons can only take 1,000.

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ISRAEL - Israeli Parliament rejects bill on recognition of "Armenian Genocide"

Dettagli: Created: 20 Febbraio 2018

Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The Israeli Parliament rejected a bill, which would have recognized the "Armenian Genocide". Sponsored by Yesh Atid party chairman Yair Lapid, the bill was rejected in a preliminary vote which took place on

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Joint release Spain: Catholics, Evangelicals, Jews, Muslims, “concern and sadness for continued offences against religious feelings” “We ask believers and non believers to respect each other”

Dettagli: Created: 20 Febbraio 2018

“Concern and sadness for continued, repeated offences against the religious feelings of devotees of different confessions”. This has been expressed by the Spanish Federation of Jewish Communities, the Spanish Bishops Conference, the

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VATICAN-RUSSIA-CHINA The old and new Ostpolitik of the Holy See (I)

Dettagli: Created: 19 Febbraio 2018

The Vatican’s latest openings to China resemble the path traced by the old Ostpolitik of Card. Agostino Casaroli. Then as now, the Holy See’s moves have provoked and provoke disagreements, criticism and charges of forgetting the persecuted Church and

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Terrorism Contenuto disponibile in Italiano Dagestan attack: mgr. Pezzi (archbishop of Moscow), “May God convert those who are plotting such crimes”

Dettagli: Created: 19 Febbraio 2018

“Deep pain” for the death of the five people who were killed yesterday in the attack – claimed by Isis – on an Orthodox church in the Russian Republic of Dagestan, the day before Great Lent. It has been voiced by mgr. Paolo Pezzi, archbishop of Moscow, who,

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RUSSIA - Massacre in front of a church in Dagestan. Patriarch Kirill: they want to break the harmony among Christians and Muslims

Dettagli: Created: 19 Febbraio 2018

Kizljar (Agenzia Fides) - A gunman killed five women yesterday, Sunday February 18 as they left St. George's Cathedral in Kizljar, in the Republic of Dagestan. According to the Patriarch of Moscow the attack represents a "monstrous crime", perpetrated at

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EGYPT A cathedral dedicated to the Egyptian martyrs beheaded in Libya Loula Lahham

Dettagli: Created: 17 Febbraio 2018

Three years after the massacre of the 21 young Copts, a cathedral for the "martyrs of the faith" was built and consecrated in Al Ur, in Upper Egypt. The remains of the victims, found in a cave in Sirte, after DNA testing, will be on display on the

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IRAN Iranian intellectuals and activists push for a referendum against theocracy

Dettagli: Created: 16 Febbraio 2018

Following President Rouhani’s lead, 15 prominent Iranians demand a referendum to define the country’s constitutional future. They harshly attack the ruling clergy for denying people their freedom. The goal is overcome the Islamic regime in a peaceful manner and

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Patriarch tells Jordanian king about reason for meeting with pope

Dettagli: Created: 15 Febbraio 2018

Moscow, February 15, Interfax - The threat of a direct clash between representatives of nuclear powers in Syria was the reason for the arrangement of a meeting between the Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Pope Francis, the

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ISRAEL - The Heads of Churches in Jerusalem say no to the taxation of ecclesiastical properties

Dettagli: Created: 15 Febbraio 2018

Jerusalem (Agenzia Fides) - The intention declared by the municipality of Jerusalem to impose municipal taxes on Church properties "contradicts the historical position between Churches and civil authorities over the centuries". This was written by

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AFGHANISTAN - Fr. Scalese: "We pray for the nation, but the Catholic community gets smaller and smaller"

Dettagli: Created: 15 Febbraio 2018

Kabul (Agenzia Fides) - "We hope for a Lent rich in spiritual fruits. Let us pray so that Afghanistan may regain some peace and resume its path of human, political, social and economic growth", says Fr. Giovanni Scalese, a Barnabite priest, titular of

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The new Greek Melchite Patriarch Youssef Absi

Pope Francis meets members of Greek Melkite Synod

Dettagli: Created: 13 Febbraio 2018

In his words to the Eastern-rite bishops, led by Patriarch Youssef Asib, the Pope spoke about the suffering of Christians in the Middle East.

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Saint Josephine Bakhita Patron of the victims of human trafficking

Pope Francis: Human trafficking is a crime against humanity

Dettagli: Created: 12 Febbraio 2018

By Sr. Bernadette Mary Reis, fsp

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Il ministro del turismo egiziano Rania Al Mashat al centro foto Sir Rocchi

Initiative Contenuto disponibile in Italiano Egypt: Government promotes pilgrimages following in the footsteps of the Holy Family

Dettagli: Created: 09 Febbraio 2018

The Minister of Egyptian Tourism Rania Al-Mashat, first woman to hold this role, met with a UNITALSI delegation. The purpose of the meeting is to coordinate and revive pilgrimages following the same route of the Holy Family in Egypt. The Minister confirmed the

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