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by bcadmin | Oct 11, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, News, Patriarch Bartholomew, Second Vatican Council, Vatican | 0 |
The Second Vatican Council was of great interest to the Orthodox world, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople wrote in an article published in the Vatican newspaper.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Aug 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Kazakhstan, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican | 0 |
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has canceled his planned attendance at an interfaith meeting in Kazakhstan next month where he was expected to meet with Pope Francis, in a sign of further deterioration in relations over Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 25, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, News, Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
Pope Francis has sent a protocol greeting to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, assuring him of prayers on his patron’s feast day and stressing the value of human life and wisdom.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 4, 2022 | Associated Press, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Holy See diplomacy, lead, News, Patriarch Kirill, Pope Francis, Ukraine, Ukraine Crisis, Vatican, Vatican diplomacy | 0 |
Pope Francis hasn’t made much of a diplomatic mark in Russia’s war in Ukraine, seemingly unable to capitalize on his moral authority, soft power or direct line to Moscow to nudge an end to the bloodshed or at least a cease-fire.
Read Moreby 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 | Mar 3, 2022 | Catholic Church, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Eastern Orthodoxy, Europe, News, Russian Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodoxy, The Dispatch, Ukraine, Ukraine conflict, Ukraine Crisis | 0 |
St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. / Ivan Sedlovskyi via Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Rome Newsroom, Mar 3, 2022 / 07:20 am (CNA).
Could St. Sophia’s Cathedral in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv be a Russian military target? Rum…
by bcadmin | Jan 22, 2022 | Bishop Brian Farrell, Catholic News Service, Catholic-Lutheran dialogue, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Catholic-Protestant dialogue, COVID-19, Ecumenical relations, News, Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Week of Prayer for Christian Unity | 0 |
In promoting Christian unity, ecumenical prayer and practical cooperation among divided church communities, the COVID-19 pandemic has not been all bad news.
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 | Dec 23, 2021 | Catholic-Orthodox Relations, lead, Metropolitan Hilarion, News, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow, Pope Francis, Russian Orthodox Church, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis’s meeting with a top member of the Russian Orthodox Church Wednesday was yet another step forward in the planning process for a second meeting with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill, which sources say could happen next year.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 5, 2021 | Associated Press, Breaking News, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Greece, Greek Orthodox, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Pope Francis was heckled by an elderly Greek Orthodox priest on Saturday as he arrived for a meeting with the head of the country’s Orthodox Church.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 4, 2021 | Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Communism, Ecumenism, Greece, lead, News, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Catholics in Greece are a small minority, making up just three percent of the country’s population of 11 million, around 97 percent of whom officially adhere to the Orthodox Church, declared as the “prevailing religion” in Greece’s constitution.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 3, 2021 | Associated Press, Breaking News, Catholic-Orthodox Relations, Church in Europe, Cyprus, Greek Orthodox, lead, News, Papal Trips, Pope Francis, Pope in Greece & Cyprus | 0 |
Pope Francis met Friday with the leader of Cyprus’ Greek Orthodox Church with the aim of further mending an ideological and political rift between the Catholic West and the Orthodox East that dates back nearly a millennium.
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