Showing posts with label Oriental Catholicism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oriental Catholicism. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Vatican Closes 8 Churches in Baghdad

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The Vatican has closed eight churches in the Baghdad (Iraq). This was reported by "International Christian Concern," an associati...
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Monday, April 24, 2017

"The Bishops Abducted in 2013 Live" -- Marian Appearances of Mousseitbé

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Syrian-Orthodox Bishop Daniel Kourie: "Abducted Bishops are still alive" - 47th Annivesary of the Apparition of  Mousseitbé (...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Cardinal Cañizares: "There is a veritable Holocaust ongoing against Christians" and "The powerful are silent"

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Cardinal Cañizares Preaching on Sunday (Madrid) Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, Archbishop of Valencia and new Deputy President of the  Sp...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Persecuted Christians Disturb Catholic Interfaith Event -- "You see how the situation has happened in Europe by this attitude, where you live as Christians in the majority and yet are afraid."

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(Rimini) The   meeting organized in 2016  by the Catholic community Communion and Liberation  (CL),  which has taken place has cast a  n...
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Friday, April 15, 2016

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is Colored Red "For the Blood of Christian Martyrs"

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(Rome) This coming April 29, the famous Trevi Fountain in Rome will turn red as "the blood of Christian martyrs".  This action ...
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Tuesday, April 12, 2016

The Vatican and Orthodox Churches Work Together to Rebuild Damaged Churches in Syria

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(Rome) The Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church and the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church will jointly rebuild the churche...
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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Israel is Blocking the Accounts of the Latin Patriarch -- "Come, Pilgrimage in the Holy Land, Eat, Drink and Pray With Us"

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(Jerusalem) "Israel has blocked the accounts of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem," says Msgr. Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo, Ar...
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Monday, January 18, 2016

Turkish Army Bombards Christian Village in Northern Iraq -- Christians Fleeing

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 (Damascus/Ankara) On the night of January 17th, the Turkish air force bombed the Sharanish in Kurdish controlled northern Iraq. The Chri...
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Friday, December 25, 2015

The Last Arab Christian Prince: "My Great Mission is Raise the Awareness of the West"

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The Ghannasid dynasty has ruled a vast territory that included parts of present-day Saudi Arabia, Syria and Jordan.  It was an allied ...
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Piero Marini Appointed as New President of Liturgy Commission for Eastern Churches

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Msgr. Piero Marini is the New President of the Special Commission for the Liturgy of Oriental Churches (Rome) Pope Francis renewed the ...
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Friday, August 14, 2015

Stop the Persecution of Christians: Statue of Our Lady of Fatima Comes to Syria

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(Fatima / Damascus) with the aim to overcome the fanaticism, the statue of the Blessed Lady of Fatima will be brought to Syria, where a m...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

On the 15th of August Bells Will Sound For Persecuted Christians of the Orient Will Sound

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(Paris) On the feast of the Assumption 40 diocese of France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Switzerland will ring their   church bells for the p...
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Saturday, July 11, 2015

Iraqi Franciscan Freed in Syria

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Orontem region especially dangerous for Christians. Aleppo / Jerusalem (kath.net/ KNA) A week ago in the Syrian province of Idlib, a kidnap...
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Thursday, June 25, 2015

Catholic Patriarch of Babylon Offers Resignation -- Reunion of the "Church of the East" Under Rome

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(Baghdad) Patriarch Raphael Louis I. Sako of Babylon, the head of the  Chaldean Catholic Church  in Union with Rome has freely  offered h...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Eritrea Now Has Its Own Archeparchy from the Ethiopian Catholic Church

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Archeparch Menghisteab Tesfamariam of Asmara (Rome) In the dispute within the   Ethiopian Catholic Church   united with Rome, Pope Fran...
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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Christians of Aleppo Plant Olive Tree Where Three Were Killed by Islamists

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(Damascus) Last week was the parish of the Holy Trinity in Aleppo was the target of a brutal attack by  Syrian rebels.  The parish church...
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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Christians Bear the New Yellow Star -- Courageous Shi'ites Take Their Side

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(Baghdad) The  Islamic State  (IS) has a new yellow star to identify the Christians.  The identification of the members of the other &quo...
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