EMIR OF KUWAIT RECEIVED IN AUDIENCE BY THE HOLY FATHER
VATICAN CITY, 6 MAY 2010 (VIS) – This morning the Holy Father received in audience His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, emir of Kuwait. Sheikh Sabah subsequently went on to meet with...
View ArticleSPIRITUAL SUPPORT AND SOLIDARITY TO MIDDLE EAST CHRISTIANS
VATICAN CITY, 6 JUN 2010 (VIS) – This morning the Pope celebrated Mass at Nicosia’s Eleftheria sports centre for the occasion of the publication of the “Instrumentum laboris” of the Special Assembly...
View ArticleSUMMARY OF THE INSTRUMENTUM LABORIS
VATICAN CITY, 6 JUN 2010 (VIS) – Given below are extracts of the English- language summary of the “Instrumentum laboris” of the Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops. In the...
View ArticleBENEDICT XVI RECALLS HIS APOSTOLIC TRIP TO CYPRUS
VATICAN CITY (VIS) – During his general audience today, celebrated in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope reminisced about his recent apostolic trip to Cyprus, “in itself a historical event” being the first...
View ArticleWorldwide 24-Hour Rosary Relay
New York, New York, (MetroCatholic) — This unique event on June 19 will start in Australia at 01.00 GMT and finish in Los Angeles at 23.30 GMT, linking 24 shrines to Our Lady in an unbroken chain of...
View ArticleDELEGATION FROM CONSTANTINOPLE PATRIARCHATE MEETS POPE
VATICAN CITY, 28 JUN 2010 (VIS) – The Pope today received in audience the members of a delegation from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, who have come to Rome for the Solemnity of Sts....
View ArticleHomeland Security Drops Opposition to Son of Hamas Political Asylum Request
SAN DIEGO (MetroCatholic) — Today in a hearing in United States immigration court in San Diego, prosecutors for Homeland Security chose not to oppose Mosab Hassan Yousef’s application for political...
View ArticleLiberty, Religion, and Democracy Among Topics at Rimini Meeting
Various Religious and Political Leaders Expected to Speak at Annual Event
View ArticleMaronite patriarch warns Syrian conflict could spread to Lebanon
Antioch, Turkey, Aug 19, 2012 / 05:04 pm (CNA).- Patriarch Bechara Boutros Rai of Antioch, the head of the Maronite Catholic Church, has warned that the armed conflict in Syria is affecting neighboring...
View ArticleWe Apologize For Breathing
Hattip to AllahPundit at Hot Air. Your tax dollars at work. The State Department is paying for the above video to run in Pakistan. I find it breathtaking in its complete incomprehension. The...
View ArticleThe Middle East: A Powder Keg For World War III
The Middle East is without a doubt a time bomb. Most of the governments are basically unstable and ready to topple. Syria has been at war within itself now going on over two years. Over 100,000...
View ArticleJohn Kerry, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Copts
John Kerry, our hapless Secretary of State, is backing the Muslim Brotherhood in the current incipient Civil War raging in Egypt between the Egypptian military, which removed Morsi, the Muslim...
View ArticleShrewd, Very Shrewd
In the age of Obama it is possible for Americans to forget that there are leaders who are very shrewd indeed: The Egyptian defense minister ordered the engineering department of the armed...
View ArticleRank Amateurs
I didn’t think the Syrian fiasco could get much worse. Now it has. Fearing the near certainty that Congress would not authorize an attack on Syria, Obama has supported a Russian proposal to have...
View ArticleA Prayer Request For Christians In Iraq & Syria
A message from our Diocese: In a letter that Bishop Joe S. Vásquez received from Bishop Francis Y. Kalabat, Bishop of St. Thomas Chaldean Diocese in Southfield, Michigan, our diocese has been invited...
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