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Brampton, Ontario - His Beatitude Sviatoslav, Patriarch of Kyiv and Halych will consecrate the newly build temple to St. Elias the Prophet in Brampton, Saturday, October 1/16 beginning at 10:00 a.m.
The consecration events will be broadcast live on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/user/oleniatko/live
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CWN - The vicar general of the Maronite Catholic patriarchate has indicated his support for Michel Aoun to be chosen as president of Lebanon.
It is "quite normal" to support Aoun, argued Msgr. Boulos Sayyah, since the presidential candidate "enjoys the support of most Christians." He said that the patriarchate does not "prefer one candidate over another," but hopes for an outcome that would satisfy Lebanon's Christian population.
The Maronite Church, led by Patriarch Bechara Rai, has repeatedly called for the election of a president, to end a deadlock that has left Lebanon without an acting president for more than two years.
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The Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church has reached unanimous consensus on the “Chieti text”. This is a positive achievement that is not to be understimated.
vaticaninsider.com | Gianni Valente| Rome
The dialogue between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches over the exercise of primacy and synodality in the Church is proceeding at a slow pace but without stopping. The working session held by the mixed Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, held in the Italian city of Chieti between 15 September and today, concluded with the unanimous approval of the document titled: “Synodality and Primacy during the First Millennium: Towards a Common Understanding in Service to the Unity of the Church”. The meeting focused on the exercise of the primacy and synodality in the Church before the great Eastern schism. The outcome was welcomed with a liberating applause from the members of the Commission, after the previous session, which took place in Amman in September 2014 reached a stalemate. This was because of the objections raised by many Orthodox representatives with regard to a working draft which did not differ much from the one that was approved yesterday. According to the press release published at the end of the meeting, only the delegation representing the Georgian Orthodox Church expressed its disagreement with some of the passages in the “Chieti document”.
The document approved during the Chieti session, hosted by the archdiocese led by the bishop-theologian Bruno Forte, is an additional working text that follows along the same lines as the first document jointly drafted by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches on the primacy issue and approved in Ravenna in 2007. What is new is the unanimous approval of the latest text. Looking for the top 100 online casinos top 100 online casinos , then come to us at x100casino.com
The Ravenna document of 2007 contained a shared definition of the principle of primacy, as well as the confirmation that – albeit with differences in accepted meanings and nuances between the Eastern and Western Churches – the Bishop of Rome was recognised by all as the primus, being the holder of the Prima Sedes (first see), the Church of Rome. But in Ravella, in 2007, the representatives of the Patriarchate of Moscow made a dramatic exit, abandoning the session before the discussions had even got going properly and the Russian Orthodox Church never gave official recognition to that document.
Please read the whole story at: http://www.lastampa.it/2016/09/22/vaticaninsider/eng/world-news/orthodox-and-catholics-agree-on-document-on-primacy-and-synodality-38rd8bTllhZ1QyPrPHN3rJ/pagina.html
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CWN - A Syriac Catholic church in Aleppo has suffered damage from rocket and mortar fire.
The Free Syrian Army, a rebel coalition group, attacked the church recently in violation of a cease-fire, according to a report from the Assyrian International News Agency.
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CWN - The bishops of the Chaldean Catholic Church began a week-long synod in Erbil, Iraq, on September 22.
Patriarch Louis Raphael I Sako told AsiaNews that the synod would examine the situation in the Chaldean eparchy of San Diego, which has accepted priests and religious who have left Iraq without permission from their superiors. The Wall Street Journal has published a report on the conflicts within the large Chaldean community in California: a conflict between the desire to help refugees escape from danger in Iraq and the determination of the Chaldean patriarchate to preserve the Christian witness in that country.
The synod will also discuss the liturgy, the political situation in Iraq, and the beatification of various Chaldean martyrs.
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CWN - A leading Russian Orthodox official has renewed his criticism of Ukraine’s Eastern-rite Catholics.
Days after characterizing Eastern Catholics as obstacles to Christian unity, Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations, met in Chieti, Italy, with Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity.
Metropolitan Hilarion spoke with Cardinal Koch about his “profound concern over hostile statements and actions recently made with regard to the Moscow Patriarchate and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by leaders of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,” the Moscow Patriarchate said in a statement.
Metropolitan Hilarion “also expressed the conviction that the issue of unia [Eastern Catholics] needs to be revisited by the Joint Commission for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue,” the statement added.
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