Tag: Pope Francis

Ecumenical Patriarchate Announces Official Delegation for Meeting with Pope Francis in Jerusalem May 25, 2014

OCP- May 18, 2014

May 2014 NEW YORK – The Ecumenical Patriarchate today  a list of persons accompanying Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of over 300 million Orthodox faithful ... Read More

Purpose of the Meeting Between Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Jerusalem

OCP- May 9, 2014

May 2014 "The forthcoming meeting of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Pope Francis in Jerusalem this coming May is expected to be a strong symbolic confirmation ... Read More

Vatican Meeting of the Catholicos of All Armenians and Pope Francis

OCP- May 9, 2014

May 2014 On May 7, His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, left for the Vatican on a fraternal visit. On ... Read More

William Dorich Writes open Letter to Pope Francis on the role of Vatican in Balkan Genocide

OCP- May 4, 2014

William Dorich OCP News Service - April - May 2014 An Open Letter April 21, 2014 His Holiness Pope Francis Apostolic Palace Vatican City 00120 ... Read More

An Open Letter to Pope Francis

OCP- April 29, 2014

  InSerbia News - April 2014 Your Holiness: As a double victim of Balkan genocide, I write this Open Letter to appeal to your humanitarian ... Read More

A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and a Plea to Return to Holy Orthodoxy

OCP- April 17, 2014

Pope Francis - The Old Orthodox Bishop of Rome 17/4/14 Read: A Letter to Pope Francis Concerning His Past, the Abysmal State of Papism, and ... Read More

Vatican ‘must immediately remove’ child abusers

OCP- February 8, 2014

February 2014 The UN has said that the Vatican should "immediately remove" all clergy who are known or suspected child abusers. The UN watchdog for ... Read More

Solidarity with abducted archbishops and nuns expressed

OCP- January 12, 2014

Bethlehem, West Bank, (SANA)- Participants of Theology and the Local Church Conference in the occupied Palestinian territories expressed solidarity with the abducted archbishops and nuns  by ... Read More

Catholic-Orthodox ties improve in Russia, church official says

OCP- December 24, 2013

Jonathan Luxmoore - 24/12/13 OXFORD, England (CNS) -- The Catholic Church in Russia predicted a "steady improvement" in ties with the predominant Orthodox Church after ... Read More

Putin and Pope Francis discuss drive for peace in Syria

OCP- November 27, 2013

27/11/13 Russian President Vladimir Putin has met Pope Francis in what the Vatican described as a "cordial and constructive meeting." Putin later dined with Silvio ... Read More

Syrian Christians flee persecution as Patriarch urges them to stay in war-torn country

OCP- November 22, 2013

22/11/13 As some 450,000 Christians have fled Syria since a civil war erupted two years ago, the Syrian Patriarch of the Melkite Greek Catholic church ... Read More

Archbishop Scola in Moscow for Orthodox Church meetings

OCP- November 12, 2013

12/11/13 Moscow, November 12 - Dialogue between the Russian Orthodox and Catholic Churches must be accelerated, senior officials from both faiths said Tuesday. The Archbishop of ... Read More

Pope Francis meeting with Putin could help mend Catholic-Orthodox relations

OCP- November 7, 2013

Philip Pullella  - 7/11/13 Pope Francis will receive Russian President Vladimir Putin on November 25, an encounter that could help mend strained relations between the Vatican ... Read More

Syrian patriarch says third of Christians are now refugees

OCP- October 17, 2013

Ed West - 17/10/13 Some 450,000 Syrian Christians have fled their homes or the country, according to the country’s Melkite Greek Catholic patriarch, almost a third ... Read More

I’m Still Not Going Back to the Roman Catholic Church

OCP- September 30, 2013

Rod Dreher  @roddreher - 30/9/13 "Pope Francis only confirms my decision to leave. " "In Orthodoxy, which radically resists the moralistic therapeutic deism that  characterizes so ... Read More

Pope Francis meets with Patriarch John X of Antioch

OCP- September 28, 2013

28/9/13 September 27, 2013. (Romereports.com) It was a historic meeting between Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, and Patriarch John X, the leader ... Read More

Catholicos of the East Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II to Meet Pope Francis of Rome – Exclusive

OCP- August 31, 2013

31/8/13 OCP News Service Biography of the Catholicos: Official Website Of the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church India/Vatican: Reports from different sources say that His Holiness ... Read More

Aleppo, the Bishop and the Martyred City

OCP- August 14, 2013

14/3/13 "I was supposed to be going to the Rimini meeting, but it's not the right time to be travelling". Antoine Audo, Jesuit and Chaldean ... Read More

Disputes with Orthodox ‘resolved’

OCP- July 6, 2013

 5 /7/13 Russia's Catholic archbishop has said he believes long-running Orthodox complaints about the Church's activities in the country have now been settled for good, ... Read More

Ankara has reacted angrily to the Vatican for Pope’s remarks on the Genocide of Armenians

OCP- June 8, 2013

  08/06/2013 Turkey has reacted angrily to the Vatican following a statement from Pope Francis describing the mass killings of Armenians during World War I ... Read More

Pope to Syrian Christians: you have ‘great task’ of remaining

OCP- June 5, 2013

Noujad (far right) lost her husband to the violence in Syria, and her son is still missing. Credit: Bill Lyons for CRS. Used with permission. ... Read More