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Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav to the Youth 15-03-31
Rev. George Gallaro appointed Eparchial Bishop of Piana de Sicilia (Italy) 15-03-31
Pastoral Letter of His Beatitude Sviatoslav for Lent 2015 15-03-27
Head of Assyrian Church of the East dies 15-03-27
Ukrainian bishops speak of ministry amid suffering 15-03-27
Despite devastation of war and threats of Islamic State, Syrian Christians returning to city of Homs 15-03-26
Patriarch Gregorios III's Letter for Pascha 2015 15-03-24
After church bombings, lynchings, Pakistani police arrest 200 Christians 15-03-24
Indian Christian identity under attack, cardinal says 15-03-24
Egyptian court upholds first-ever conviction of Muslim militant for blasphemy against Christianity 15-03-23
Egyptian Christians, Muslims closer together in wake of martyrdoms in Libya, bishop says 15-03-21
Pope raises Hungarian Byzantine Catholic Church to status of sui juris Metropolitan See 15-03-20
Chaldean bishop: war is the only way to stop the persecution of Iraq’s Christians 15-03-20
Assyrian prelate: Church is not allied with any faction in Syrian conflict 15-03-20
Vatican official assures Syria’s bishops of Pope’s closeness 15-03-19
Melkite Patriarch Gregory III opposes international intervention in Syria 15-03-19
Vatican condemns terror attack in Tunis 15-03-19
Cardinal Sarah speaks of ‘sound tradition,’ ‘legitimate progress’ in the liturgy 15-03-19
Chaldean patriarch calls for prosecution of preachers who incite violence 15-03-17
2 church bombings in Pakistan; Pope, bishops lament persecution of Christians 15-03-16
Over 60 nations sign statement in support of Middle East’s Christians 15-03-16
Appeal for a World Day of Prayer and Fasting for Peace in Syria from His Beatitude Patriarch Gregorios III 15-03-13
Eparchy of St. Josaphat of Parma, Ohio holds youth Lenten lock-in retreat 15-03-13
Fr. Teodor (Taras) Martynyuk, M.S.U., appointed auxiliary of the archieparchy of Ternopil'-Zboriv. 15-03-13
Ancient Chaldean church in Mosul reported damaged but not destroyed 15-03-12