Tag: Catholic News Service

Vatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 23, 2016

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 28, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- December 23, 2014

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

Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE- November 22, 2014

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

OCP- April 10, 2014

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

OCP- December 22, 2013

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

OCP- August 7, 2013

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

OCP- July 31, 2013

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

OCP- March 28, 2013

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

OCP- September 19, 2012

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

OCP- March 11, 2012

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

OCP- December 16, 2011

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