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Byzcath.org News provides news focusing on the Christian East from varous sources and offers links to other sites dedicated to providing the news about the Church.

Churches and organizations that provide news about the Eastern Churches are invited to submit their news stories to us for publication here (use the contact page for submission)..

Materials from the Vatican Information Service, Zenit, CWNews.com and other sources are published here with permission of their owners but may not be republished further without the permission of their original publishers. Please visit these sites to obtain additional general news about the Church. In addition to these sources EWTN News also provides a good general news summary.

Photo: Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I embrace.

Bishop Borys Gudziak appointed as Metropolitan and Archbishop of the UGCC Archeparchy of Philadelphia

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Last Updated: 18 February 2019

Bishop Borys Gudziak(RISU) On February 18, the Holy See announced that Pope Francis, accepting the recommendation of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC), has appointed Bishop Borys Gudziak, Eparch of the Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great in Paris, as Metropolitan and Archbishop of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia.

Bishop Hlib Lonchyna, Eparch of Holy Family Eparchy in London, has been appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Paris Eparchy.

Bishop Borys Gudziak lead the Eparchy of Saint Volodymyr the Great that serves the Ukrainian Greek Catholic faithful in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland since January 19, 2013. On that day, Pope Benedict XVI elevated the Apostolic Exarchate for Ukrainian Catholics of the Byzantine Rite to the rank of Eparchy and Bishop Borys was appointed as its first eparch. He previously held the position of the Apostolic Exarch, to which he was appointed on July 21, 2012. His episcopal ordination took place in Saint George Cathedral in Lviv on August 26, 2013, and enthronement on December 2, 2012, at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Before his episcopal nomination he was rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, as well as one of its founders.

Emeritus Patriarch Gregorios III 2018 Christmas Letter

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Last Updated: 25 December 2018

Good Wishes for Christmas 2018
and the New Year 2019

“Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will towards men...I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day...a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord.” (Luke 2: 14, 10, 11)

This was the first notice of the good news of the Feast of the Nativity, brought by the heavenly angels on Christmas night, addressed to the shepherds of Beit Sahur and Bethlehem, and through them to the whole of humanity – to each man and woman in every time and place.

Funeral of Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J.

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Last Updated: 20 November 2018

Fairfax, VA - Oriental Lumen TV has published the video of the recent funeral of of Archimandrite Robert Taft, S.J., the renowned liturgical scholar:

 

 

 

 

May the Lord God grant to His servant, the Archimandrite Robert, eternal memory. Vičnaja jemu pamjat!

Gregorios III as Guest in the Peace Hall

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Last Updated: 06 October 2018

Courtesy of the Muenstersche Zeitung 4 September 2018

In the Peace Hall, Mayor Markus Lewe welcomed Gregorios III, Patriarch Emeritus of Antioch and All the East, of Alexandria and of Jerusalem, of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in Damascus.

Together with the Honorary President of The German Initiative for the Middle East (DINO), the patriarch took part in a panel discussion at the Council House Festival Hall.

https://www.muensterschezeitung.de/Lokales/Staedte/Muenster/3459069-Podiumsdiskussion-ueber-Nahen-Osten-Gregorios-III.-zu-Gast-im-Friedenssaal

Patriarch Emeritus Gregorios III as Guest of Honour at the DINO Panel Discussion

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Last Updated: 06 October 2018

Courtesy of the German Initiative for the Middle East (DINO) September 3, 2018

The appearance of Patriarch Gregorios III was greeted with joy: he was guest of honour at the DINO panel discussion in Münster, which, inspired by the exhibition Peace - from Antiquity to the Present Day, dealt with the question: “…and in Future? In the Middle East, too?"

https://www.dino-muenster.de/mediathek/newsdetails/?tx_ggnews_newsdetailsplugin%5Bnews%5D=272&cHash=44254e53c3ba3b77c049968296f48271

DINO Address by Patriarch Emeritus Gregorios III

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Last Updated: 06 October 2018

Christian Presence, Peace and Living Together in the Middle East

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Good day!

To all of you dear people, greetings from the East, birthplace of religions, especially in the Holy Land, of which Pope Saint John Paul II said, "The Holy Land is the home of all Christians, because it is the home of Jesus and Mary." It is the home of every man, as Psalm 86 (LXX) says of Jerusalem, "A man shall say, Sion is my mother."

God has established the heavenly Jerusalem as the home of all people. Therefore, the earthly Jerusalem must not be bound to a person or a people, for Jerusalem is the mother of us all. I consider Jerusalem, where I served as bishop for twenty-six years, as the capital of our faith, whether we are Jews, Christians or Muslims. That is its future and task. This is the future and mission of the Middle East and all its inhabitants - Jews, Christians, Muslims – who have been living together for thousands of years.

  1. Patriarch Emeritus Gregorios III makes a surprise visit to Father Franz Pitzal
  2. Centenary of the Re-establishment of the Benedictine Abbey of Niederaltaich, Germany
  3. Meet Jesuit Milan Lach, North America’s youngest bishop
  4. Scenes from the 84th annual Pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Help

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Catholic World News

  • Pope Francis criticizes those who have 'exploited' Pope Benedict's death (Vatican News)
  • Praying with South Sudan's Christians, Pope, other Christian leaders urge new steps toward unity (CNS)
  • Vatican foreign minister: Pope wants to meet with Patriarch Kirill, but in peaceful conditions (Tass)
  • 'Your humility to us was not in vain,' South Sudan's president tells Pope (Radio Tamazuj)
  • Europe's synodal continental assembly begins in Prague (Pillar)
  • Catholicism must reckon with the risks of a 'Saffron Taliban' in India (Crux)
  • Cardinal Zen and Jimmy Lai among Hong Kongers nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (CNA)
  • Religious freedom summit brings together politicians from both sides of aisle for global event (Fox News)
  • Largest Catholic parish church in North America opens in California (Modesto Bee)
  • New convent beckons Christians to return to Iraq (Aid to the Church in Need)

Forum 18 News

  • OCCUPIED UKRAINE: "Disappeared" clergy, seized places of worship, library purge
  • UKRAINE: Draft law better than others, freedom of religion or belief concerns remain
  • BELARUS: Religious freedom survey, January 2023
  • RUSSIA: Two trials, nine long jail terms
  • KYRGYZSTAN: Violent attacks continue in 2022 and into 2023
  • UKRAINE: First known wartime conscientious objector jailing
  • KAZAKHSTAN: Religious censorship at border
  • BELARUS: Greek Catholic website among religious works banned as "extremist"

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