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by bcadmin | Apr 24, 2022 | Associated Press, Church in the US, Easter, News, Orthodox Christians, Ukraine Crisis, Ukrainian Catholic Church | 0 |
The rituals leading up to Easter are the same. The solemn Good Friday processions. The Holy Saturday blessings of foods that were avoided during Lent. The liturgies accompanied by processions, bells and chants.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured, Film, Lives of Saints, Modern Saints, News, Orthodox Christians | 0 |
The present situation in the world between Russia and Ukraine has brought to our attention many different saints that the western Church, that is, Roman Catholics, would have little familiarity. They could be saints associated with the Eastern Churches in communion with Rome like the Ukrainian Catholic Church or it could be saints associated with […]
by bcadmin | Mar 15, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, lead, News, Orthodox Christians, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Russia, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Russia’s war on Ukraine is leaving cities in ruins and risks destroying relations among the Orthodox churches and between the Russian Orthodox Church and its ecumenical partners.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Bosnia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Civil war, ethnic violence, News, Orthodox Christians, Religious Minorities, sanctions, Serbia | 0 |
Amid Bosnia’s greatest political crisis since the end of its 1992-95 interethnic war, the country’s Serbs celebrated an outlawed holiday Sunday.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 30, 2021 | Catholics, Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, News, Orthodox Christians, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Catholics and Orthodox Christians must increasingly work together where they can, Pope Francis told Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 20, 2021 | Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, Bulgaria, Catholic News Service, Church in Europe, COVID-19, Hospitals, News, Orthodox Christians, Poland, Ukrainian Catholic Church, World Health Organization | 0 |
As governments across Europe reimpose curbs to counter a winter spike in the coronavirus, church leaders are urging citizens in less-protected eastern countries to cooperate with health campaigns.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 24, 2020 | Church in Europe, Hagia Sophia, Interreligious dialogue, Islam, lead, News, Orthodox Christians, Turkey | 0 |
As Muslims for the first time 86 years chant prayers from Istanbul’s famed Hagia Sophia Friday morning, Orthodox Christians worldwide will recite an ancient hymn in lamentation of what they see as a major blow to interreligious coexistence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 12, 2020 | Hagia Sophia, lead, News, Orthodox Christians, Pope Francis, Turkey, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis Sunday broke his silence on the decision to revert Turkey’s famed Hagia Sophia into a mosque, saying he is ‘pained’ by the ruling.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 11, 2020 | Church in the Middle East, Hagia Sophia, Islam, lead, News, Orthodox Christians | 0 |
Turkey’s State Court ruled Friday to revert Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia, one of the most iconic monuments for both Christianity and Islam, to a mosque – a decision that could have global repercussions in the Orthodox world.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 14, 2020 | Associated Press, Church in Europe, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, Montenegro, News, Orthodox Christians, Orthodox Church, Serbia | 0 |
Montenegrin police said Thursday they have detained “a number of citizens” following clashes at protests demanding the release of eight Serbian Orthodox Church priests jailed for leading a religious procession despite a ban on gatherings related to the new coronavirus outbreak.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 28, 2020 | Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Jerusalem, lead, News, News Analysis, Orthodox Christians, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Patriarch Theophilus III, Patriarchate of Constantinople, Ukraine | 0 |
On any list of intriguing Christian leaders, a slot somewhere near the top right now would have to be reserved for Theophilus III, officially “His Most Godly Beatitude, the Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem and all Palestine, Israel, Syria, Arabia, beyond the Jordan River, Cana of Galilee, and Holy Zion.”
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