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Vatican foreign minister renews call for diplomatic action on Syria 13-11-13
Surge in kidnappings of Egypt’s Christians 13-11-13
Damascus: children at Christian school killed by rebel fire; 2 churches hit 13-11-13
Vatican newspaper: Pope’s Syria peace appeal may launch ‘real dialogue’ with Islam 13-11-13
Pope meets Russian Orthodox prelate; a prelude to visit by Putin? 13-11-12
Chaldean patriarch: granting of asylum to Iraqi Christians ‘threatens our existence’ 13-11-12
Patriarch Sviatoslav: ‘Church Wishes to Contribute to Discussion about European Values’​​ 13-11-11
Syrian bishop: Aleppo a ‘disfigured and exhausted city’ 13-11-11
European court rules against Greek civil-union law 13-11-08
Syrian prelate denies report of new massacre of Christians 13-11-08
Chaldean patriarch: clergy should serve the faithful, monks should return to monasteries 13-11-07
Ukrainian churches: remember victims of Stalinist famine-genocide 13-11-07
Latin Catholic Patriarch denounces Israeli demolition of church-owned building in Jerusalem 13-11-06
Syrian priest tells Islamists who destroyed his parish that they are betraying ‘true Islam’ 13-11-06
Catholicos of all Armenians elected chairman of World Council of Churches 13-11-05
Syria: residence of papal nuncio hit by mortar fire 13-11-05
Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk urges World Council of Churches to challenge secularism, radical Islam 13-11-05
Joint Orthodox-Catholic statement on violence against Christians in Middle East 13-11-05
Letter from the Syriac Orthodox Metropolitan of Homs, Hama and dependencies about the situation in Sadad, Syria 13-11-05
Melkite Synod elects Father Joseph Gebara Coadjutor Bishop for Brazil 13-11-05
Largest massacre of Christians in Syrian conflict 13-11-04
Christian youth repel attack on famed Egyptian church 13-11-04
Government denies kidnapped bishops are in Turkey 13-11-04
Portrait of a nun working to ransom hostages in Syria's civil war 13-11-04
Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes Patriarch Gregorios to Lambeth Palace 13-11-02