Day of Prayer 2024

International Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians on Sunday 5 May 2024 Please join us for the annual International Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians on Sunday, 5 May 2024 when Eastern and Western Christians come together in prayer during Easter. PRAYER We pray for peace in the world, especially in the Palestinian territories and […]

Pope thanks humanitarian arm of ROACO

Published courtesy of Vatican News 23 June 2023 Pope Francis expresses gratitude for the proactive solidarity and generosity of the Reunion of Aid Agencies for the Oriental Churches, the Holy See’s humanitarian arm for Eastern Churches, for its work to alleviate the suffering in war-torn Ukraine, Turkey and Syria, Holy Land, and across the world. […]

Visit of His Beatitude Cardinal Sako – June, 2023

Patriarch of Baghdad of the Chaldeans Mass (Latin rite) at the Shrine of St John Henry Newman, Birmingham Oratory on Saturday 17 June 2023 at 11.00 am Celebrant: Father Ignatius Harrison Preacher: His Beatitude Cardinal Louis Sako Sunday Mass (Chaldean Rite) at St Benedict’s Ealing Abbey Church on Sunday 18 June 2023 at 1.30 pm […]

Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians 14 May 2023

Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians on Sunday 14 May 2023 Please join us for the annual International Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians on Sunday 14 May 2023 when Eastern and Western Christians come together in prayer during Easter. PRAYER We pray for peace in the world, especially in the Middle East and Ukraine. […]

Visit of His Beatitude Cardinal Rahi – Jan, 2023

Patriarch of Antioch and All the East & Head of the Maronite Church Sunday Mass (West Syriac Rite) at St Benedict’s Ealing Abbey Church on Sunday 8 January 2023 at 1.30 pm Celebrant & Preacher: His Beatitude Cardinal Bechara Al-Rahi Press Conference with His Beatitude Cardinal Bechara Al-Rahi at Vaughan House, Westminster on Tuesday 10 […]

Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians – 22 May 2022

Please join us for the annual International Day of Prayer for Eastern Christians, on Sunday 22 May, when Eastern and Western Christians come together in prayer during Easter. We pray for peace in the world, especially in the Middle East. May the Christians in these lands be strengthened in their faith so that they may […]

Pope Francis receives Iraqi Church leaders

Published courtesy of Vatican News 28 February 2022 Meeting a delegation of Iraqi Church religious leaders on Monday, Pope Francis encourages the local Christian communities to continue promoting dialogue so as to build fraternity and counteract extremism and fundamentalism. By Lisa Zengarini Pope Francis on Monday received in audience Representatives of the Christian Churches in […]

Impact of Taliban takeover

Iraqi Archbishop ‘concerned’ over local impact of Taliban’s Afghan takeover The Archbishop of Erbil expresses his concern over the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, saying the upcoming withdrawal of remaining US troops from Iraq could have a negative impact on Christians and other minorities in Iraq. Archbishop Bashar Warda of Erbil is concerned that […]

New Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia

Armenian Synod elects new Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia The Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church, meeting this week in Rome, has elected Raphaël Bedros XXI Minassian as the 21st Catholicos-Patriarch. A ringing of bells in the patriarchal convent of Bzommar, Lebanon, announced the election of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Cilicia of Armenian Catholics: His Beatitude Raphaël François […]

Patriarch Raï: “Lebanese people are similar to a flock without a shepherd”.

The Patriarch entrusts the nation to St. Charbel Diman (Agenzia Fides). The Lebanese people, hungry and bent by the crisis, appear similar to a flock without a shepherd. And in the state of prostration in which they find themselves, also due to the inadequacy of their political leaders, they can always count on the intercession […]