Category: Africa

Ethiopia: Lalibela’s underground churches

obl- February 22, 2013

Chris Pritchard 22/2/13 Ruins such as Cambodia’s Angkor Wat and Peru’s Machu Picchu spark intense speculation about how they came to be built – along ... Read More

Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visits Russian vessel

obl- February 22, 2013

On 17 February 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria, currently on a missionary trip in Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Greek church ... Read More

Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria visits Russian vessel

obl- February 22, 2013

On 17 February 2013, His Beatitude Patriarch Theodore of Alexandria, currently on a missionary trip in Africa, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Greek church ... Read More

The imperial papacy

obl- February 16, 2013

Gwynne Dyer – 16/2/13 IT’S the ROMAN Catholic Church, not the Republican Catholic Church or the People’s Revolutionary Socialist Democratic Catholic Church. Its rigid hierarchy ... Read More

The imperial papacy

obl- February 16, 2013

Gwynne Dyer – 16/2/13 IT’S the ROMAN Catholic Church, not the Republican Catholic Church or the People’s Revolutionary Socialist Democratic Catholic Church. Its rigid hierarchy ... Read More

Egypt’s Coptic Leader: ‘Christians Are Not a Minority in Terms of Value to the Nation’

obl- February 9, 2013

By Katherine Weber , Christian Post Reporter 9/2/13 Pope Tawadros II, Egypt’s Coptic leader, has issued an uncharacteristically sharp assessment of the North African country’s ... Read More

A new Armenian Patriarch in Jerusalem: what does it mean?

obl- January 25, 2013

25/1/13 As many church leaders, organisations and individuals have learnt already, Archbishop Nourhan Manoogian was elected earlier today (24 January 2013) as the 97th patriarch ... Read More

Egypt’s Coptic Christians fleeing country after Islamist takeover

obl- January 14, 2013

By Richard Spencer , Alexandria 14/1/13 T ens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of  the Egyptian revolution and ... Read More

Egypt’s Coptic Christians fleeing country after Islamist takeover

obl- January 14, 2013

By Richard Spencer , Alexandria 14/1/13 T ens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of  the Egyptian revolution and ... Read More