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Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.
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CWN - The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest of the Eastern Orthodox churches, has issued a paschal greeting to the heads of non-Orthodox churches.
“Giving praise to the Lord for His ineffable goodwill to humanity, let us promote cooperation among Christians in the name of the triumph of God’s truth and for strengthening in society high evangelical ideals of charity, kindness and mercy, and truly spiritual and moral values,” wrote Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
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CWN - Gunmen fired upon a Coptic church in a suburb of Alexandria, Egypt, on the night of April 5, according to media reports.
One guard and four passersby were injured in the drive-by shooting.
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CWN - The Chaldean Catholic Patriarchate has issued a statement denouncing the “rebellion” of Bishop Sarhad Jammo, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Eparchy of Saint Peter the Apostle of San Diego, and of Bishop Bawai Soro, a bishop of the Assyrian Church of the East who was received into full communion with the Catholic Church and now ministers in the eparchy.
The eparchy (Eastern Catholic diocese) ministers to Chaldean Catholics in the western United States.
Referring to Chaldean priests who left Iraq without permission from their superiors, the patriarchate said that the eparchy “welcomed rebel priests against ecclesiastical laws” and refused to implement decisions made by a recent synod of the Chaldean Catholic Church.
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CWN - Patriarch Fouad Twal, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, celebrated Easter Sunday Mass at the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
“Every day in the Middle East, we are witnesses of tragic events that make us even contemporaries of Calvary,” he preached. “But our joy and our faith in the Risen Lord ‘no one will take away’ (Jn 16:22), because the Lord invites us today, even in the midst of difficulties that are ours, to taste the first fruits of the Resurrection.”
“Contemporary martyrs continue to bear witness to the Resurrection of Christ,” he added. “Processions, the stones of Jerusalem, Iraqi and Syrian refugees who have lost everything for their faith, and prisoners in the name of Christ, are signs that our Lord is alive.”
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CWN - "Tonight is a night of vigil. The Lord is not sleeping; the Watchman is watching over his people (cf. Ps. 121:4), to bring them out of slavery and to open before them the way to freedom. The Lord is keeping watch and, by the power of his love, he is bringing his people through the Red Sea. He is also bringing Jesus through the abyss of death and the netherworld ..."
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By John E. Usalis (Republican Herald)
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