Pope Francis

Why Pope Francis isn’t welcome in Serbia

May 16, 2013 Featured News

Sasa Milosevic - 15/5/13 The Roman Catholic Church’s alleged role in the Ustase slaughter of hundreds of thousands of Serbs during World War II has not been forgiven. BELGRADE, Serbia — Though he washed the feet of a Serbian Muslim girl in an Italian prison on this year’s Holy Thursday Mass, Pope Francis is still not [...]

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Coptic Pope stresses urgency of Christian unity at Vatican

May 10, 2013 Featured News

By Estefania Aguirre and David Uebbing 10/5/13 Vatican City, May 10, 2013 / 07:06 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt met with Pope Francis at the Vatican and spoke about the urgent need for unity among Christians in the Middle East. “We must prepare our people for this very [...]

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Muslim clerics in Syria urge release of kidnapped bishops

April 28, 2013 Featured News

By Patrick J. McDonnell – 27/4/13 BEIRUT — In a strong message of solidarity, Muslim clerics across Damascus on Friday denounced the kidnapping earlier this week of a pair of Syrian Christian bishops abducted at gunpoint. Imams and preachers at mosques throughout the Syrian capital said in Friday sermons that  the kidnappers were  “violating the [...]

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No sign of Orthodox bishops’ release, fears of political blackmail grow

April 27, 2013 Featured News

Elias Khoury – 27/4/13 Sources tell AsiaNews they will believe in the release  when they can see and talk to the two bishops. Delay is a sign that something  went wrong. So far, Christians have not taken sides with either warring party. The pope calls for a political solution to the crisis. Western governments seek  [...]

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Pope Tawadros II to Visit Pope Francis

April 6, 2013 Featured News

CWN - 6/4/13 Pope Tawadros (Theodoros) II of Alexandria, who was elected head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in November, has announced that he will soon visit Pope Francis in Rome. The announcement followed an April 3 meeting with Archbishop Jean-Paul Gobel, who was appointed apostolic nuncio to Egypt in January. The Coptic Orthodox Church is [...]

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Patriarch Kirill Gives Pope Mother of God Icon

March 22, 2013 News

The Moscow Times -22/3/13 A bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church has met with Pope Francis at the Vatican, where he presented him with the Mother of God icon and expressed hope that ties between the two churches would continue to improve, the church’s official website said. During the meeting on Wednesday, Hilarion Alfeyev, the Metropolitan of Volokolamsk and chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Patriarchate of Moscow, extended [...]

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The Extraordinary Historical Significance of His All-Holiness’ Presence at Pope Francis’ Installation as Bishop of Rome

March 20, 2013 Featured News

New York, NY -3/19/2013 Amid the crush of news reports in the past month that followed Pope Benedict’s unprecedented resignation from the papacy, one of the most intriguing was the decision by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, to attend Pope Francis’ installation as Bishop of Rome.  The occasion is being presented in the media as [...]

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Will Pope Francis repeat Cardinal Bergoglio’s words on the Genocide?

March 19, 2013 News

Harut Sassounian Publisher, The California Courier 19/3/13 Shortly after Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio became Pope Francis I, Armenian and Turkish media outlets rushed to inform their audiences that the Argentinean Archbishop had acknowledged the Armenian Genocide on a number of occasions. When Catholicos Karekin II visited Buenos Aires on April 23, 2004, Cardinal Bergoglio joined [...]

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Will Pope Francis Stop the aggression of Malankara Catholic Rite against the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church

March 17, 2013 Featured News

OCP News Service – 17/3/13 Read:OCP Executive Council request IMOC to withdraw from Orthodox – Roman Catholic Dialogue Read:Vatican Continues to bless ‘Uniatism and Sheep Stealing’ in India Read:Roman Catholic Church contradicts on the Status of Self Proclaimed Catholicos and Malankara Metropolitan Read: Is The Catholicate Of The Romo-Syrians In India Canonically Genuine Or Bogus? [...]

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Orthodox flock of Rome: hopes are high for the new Pope

March 17, 2013 News

Milena Faustova 17/3/13 The Russian Orthodox parish in Rome has high hopes for cooperation and dialogue with the new Pope Francis, Father Antoni Sevruk, rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Saint Catherine the Great Martyr in Rome, told the Voice of Russia. The Saint Catherine Church at the Russian Embassy is a ten-minute walk [...]

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Pope Francis Is a Jesuit: Seven Things You Need to Know About the Society of Jesus

March 15, 2013 Featured News

Caroline Linton 14/3/13 Vive il papa! Jorge Mario Bergoglio became the new Pope on Wednesday—the first Jesuit pope since the Society of Jesus was founded nearly 500 years ago. What does that mean? A breakdown of what you need to know about Jesuits. 1. What are the Jesuits? You may have a hazy recollection of the Jesuits [...]

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For the first time since the Great Schism, ecumenical patriarch to attend pope’s inaugural Mass

March 15, 2013 Featured News

15/3/13 The metropolitans of Argentina and Italy will accompany Bartholomew. Moscow Patriarchate hopes in closer cooperation with Rome but excludes for now a meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill. Istanbul (AsiaNews) – The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew I will attend Pope Francis’s inaugural Mass. The Ecumenical Patriarchate Press Office informed AsiaNews about the decision, noting [...]

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“Humility and charisma,” the Russian Orthodox Church welcomes the election of Pope Francis

March 14, 2013 Featured News

14/3/13 Moscow (AsiaNews) – The Russian Orthodox Church has warmly welcomed the election of Card. Jorge Mario Bergoglio as Pope Francis, and hope for a continuation of the policies of Pope Benedict XVI in the development of relations between Catholics and Orthodox. “The new Pope – said the head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for [...]

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