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Russian Orthodox leader speaks out on Ukraine conflict, European secularism 15-03-11
Fighting against Islamic State driving more families from homes, Chaldean Patriarch reports 15-03-11
Report: Islamic State destroys 10th-century church 15-03-11
Support Christians in Middle East through Good Friday collection, Vatican prelates urge 15-03-10
Report: new Islamic State attacks on Syrian Christian villages 15-03-10
USCCB official calls for increased aid for Syrian refugees 15-03-10
Fighting thwarts release of captives held by Islamic State in Syria 15-03-09
Armed assault on Catholic church in Egypt 15-03-09
Papal preacher devotes 2nd Lenten sermon to the Trinity in East and West 15-03-09
Maronite Church will promote organ donation in Lebanon 15-03-06
German bishops condemn Russian actions in Ukraine 15-03-05
Russian Orthodox official: number of abortions has plunged since fall of Communism 15-03-05
Report: interview with released Syrian Christian hostage 15-03-05
Syrian rebels reject truce offer; bishop blames Western suppliers 15-03-04
Report: Islamic State releases more Syrian Christian hostages 15-03-04
Social media can be a ‘vanity fair,’ says Russian patriarch 15-03-04
UGCC head Sviatoslav Shevchuk and President Poroshenko met on Saturday 15-03-03
Coptic Patriarch meets with families of Libyan martyrs 15-03-03
Islamic State releases some captives in Syria 15-03-03
Pope Francis: pray for persecuted Christians of Syria and Iraq 15-03-03
The Recent Attack on Al-Hasakah villages 15-02-27
Thoughts of Patriarch Gregorios III at the end of the fourth and beginning of the fifth year Of the Syrian Crisis or War on Syria 15-02-27
Jerusalem: Orthodox seminary torched, Jewish extremists suspected 15-02-27
Syrian Christians feel abandoned, papal nuncio reports 15-02-26
Leading Russian Orthodox official sees Russia as ‘only center of non-enslaved civilization’ 15-02-26