In front of the royal temple door, the Patriarch of Antioch, John X, most blessed, loving, and venerable, stood addressing fate, delivering words improvised for the occasion.
His Beatitude could not read what he had written, because the written word, for all its greatness, can imprison the spirit and restrain emotion, and the situation called for feeling as much as it did for reason.
The American Universality of Madaba (AUM), a beacon of higher education in Jordan that outshines other universities, has made a special incentive scholarship for students of Latin Patriarchate schools. This outstanding measure reflects the AUM’s endeavor to further promote higher education in Jordan by facilitating the enrolment of Latin Patriarchate schools’ students in the university.
Fears mount for Syrian Christians about whether the new Islamist government is committed to their protection following the recent deadly church suicide bombing in Damascus.
In a message addressed by Pope Leo XIV to the participants in the Second Annual Rome Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI), which the Vatican hosted on its second day, Pope Leo XIV said: This is "a clear indication of the Church’s desire to participate in these discussions that directly affect the present and future of our human family."
On June 22, press reports indicated that a suicide bomber blew himself up at the Mar Elias Church, in Dweil’a, on the outskirts of Damascus, as the believers were praying safely inside the church under the eyes of God, which caused an unspecified number of fatalities an
On October 20, 2024, Pope Francis held his final canonization ceremony for new saints.
The Catholic Center for Studies and Media (CCSM) has strongly condemned the cowardly terrorist attack that targeted St. Elias Church--affiliated with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East--in the Dweila area of the Syrian capital, Damascus, which caused the martyrdom of dozens of people during Sunday Mass.
Christians worldwide pray the Holy Rosary on daily bases either at homes or in churches. Praying the rosary drives people close to the Mother of God, Blessed Mary, whom the Almighty Lord chose over 2,000 years ago to present to the world the ever-most precious and invaluable gift, namely Lord Jesus Christ Who came to change the face of our world and instill an atmosphere characterized by love, peace, and harmony.
Once more, it is war, knocking on the doors of peaceful people, demolishing their homes and what they have built in terms of civilization.
These are machines of killing and destruction, operated by those blind to insight, commanded by the conscienceless, driven by people whose hearts are ruled by greed.
A careful reading of the recent statement by Pope Leo XIV appealing for 'responsibility and reason' in Iran-Israel escalation reveals its profound significance, both in form and in substance.
As the head of the Catholic Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State, the Pope speaks not only with spiritual authority of global resonance, but also with moral and political weight that amplifies the impact of his words on the international stage.
