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Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.

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Celebrations for the Year of Consecrated Life 15-02-06
On the Renewal of the Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom in the Melkite Greek Catholic Church 15-02-06
Pray daily for the Ukrainian army, says Church leader 15-02-06
Jordanian government official: ISIS is not Islamic, mockery of Allah is not Christian 15-02-06
Iraq: Christian militia forms to fight Islamic State 15-02-06
Report: historic church destroyed in Mosul 15-02-06
Reports of priest slain by Islamic State in Mosul are false, archbishop says 15-02-05
Evangelize and promote the common good, Pope tell Greek bishops 15-02-05
Report: Islamic State opens market to sell plundered Christian property 15-02-05
Chaldean patriarch decries divisions, other problems within Church 15-02-05
Armenian Apostolic Church to canonize victims of 1915 genocide 15-02-05
Russian Orthodox Patriarch praises 'balanced' Vatican stand on Ukraine 15-02-05
Pope appeals for peace, dialogue in Ukraine 15-02-04
Islamic State invades Syrian town, forces Christians to remove cross from church 15-02-04
Bethlehem's mayor to seek papal involvement in dispute over Israeli security wall 15-02-02
Pope speaks of 'deep sadness' over suffering of Christians in Iraq, Syria 15-01-30
Egypt's new government allows Christians to build new churches, ending years of opposition 15-01-29
Eastern Christian leaders plea: help for refugees, end support for terrorism 15-01-29
Patriarch Kirill calls for abortion ban in first-ever address to Duma 15-01-26
Russia needs to revive Soviet-era sense of solidarity – Patriarch Kirill 15-01-26
Religious leaders call for renewed US effort for 2-state solution in Middle East 15-01-23
Syrian priest raps Western silence after car-bomb kills 15 in Homs 15-01-23
Byzantine Catholics March for Life in Washington, DC 15-01-22
Russian Orthodox support for Muslim protest against Muhammad caricatures 15-01-21
Bishop laments indifference to fate of Syrian, Iraqi Christians 15-01-21