Tag: Catholic News Service
Vatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis
RT.com - 23/12/16 In his annual Christmas speech, Pope Francis slammed Vatican officials for pushing back against reforms that the pontiff has been pushing forward ... Read More
As Some Mideast Countries Empty of Christians, Lebanese Numbers Swell
An Iraqi Christian refugee girl holds a souvenir of the Holy Family Dec. 12 as a boy looks on at a church in Hazmiyeh, near ... Read More
Australian Bishops Who Visited Iraqi Christians See Christ Reborn Again
Abu and Um Sabah, pose outside their tent Oct. 26 in a park in Ainkawa, Iraq. One of their sons, Saleh, has traveled to Jordan ... Read More
Chaldean Patriarch Urges Moderate Muslims to Challenge Extremist Acts
Archbishop Louis Sako is the patriarch of the Iraq-based Chaldean Church, one of the world's most ancient Christian communities (Haidar Hamdani/AFP/Getty Images). Catholic News Service - ... Read More
Roman Catholic Convent, Maronite Village Latest Targets of Vandals in Israel
By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service - April 2014 JERSULALEM -- A Catholic convent near Jerusalem and a largely Maronite village in Galilee were damaged in ... Read More
Austrian Roman Catholic Parishes handedover to Orthodox Churches
22/12/13 Vienna Archdiocese defends giving churches to Orthodox. Catholic News Service Austria's Vienna Archdiocese has defended its gifts of Catholic churches to Orthodox communities, as ... Read More
Italian official says ‘it seems’ Italian Jesuit was kidnapped in Syria
Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service 7/8/13 Vatican: After more than a week with no word from Jesuit Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian priest who worked for ... Read More
Syria’s war creates havoc, priest’s whereabouts unknown, nuncio says
Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service - 31/7/13 VATICAN CITY - The war in Syria is like a factory churning out nothing but death, destruction and ... Read More
Syrian Christian refugees turn to churches for help
James Martone Catholic News Service 28/3/13 ISTANBUL Churches and monasteries in Turkey are struggling to shelter a rising number of Syrian Christian refugees who are reluctant ... Read More
Orthodox Patriarch, Anglican leader to attend Vatican II celebration
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service 19/9/2012 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury will join ... Read More
Christians in Syria live in fear of persecution, say Roman Catholic officials
By Judith Sudilovsky Catholic News Service 10/3/2012 JERUSALEM (CNS) — Christians in Syria live in fear of a repeat of persecution like was seen in ... Read More
Iraqi Christians resettled in Canada look forward to quiet Christmas
By Catholic News Service 16/12/2011 EDMONTON, Alberta – Iraqi Ziyad Matti and his wife, Dalia Hikmat, have not had a proper Christmas in years. They ... Read More