A group of 13 young women from the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America have participated in advocacy for rights and beliefs at the United Nations in New York in conjunction with the Commission on the Status of Women.
The Pope sends his heartfelt condolences to Metropolitan Yoan, the Holy Synod and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church for the passing away of Patriarch Neofit.
Patriarch Neophyte of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, and Metropolitan of Sofia, has died at the age of 78.
The twentieth meeting of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches took place in Rome from January 22 to 26, 2024.
Pope Francis marked the end of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity 2024 by presiding at Vespers at the Basilica of St Paul outside the Walls.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
Pope Francis highlights the dialogue of charity, truth, and life in his address to the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity [DPCU] is pleased to offer a translation into Arabic of all the dialogue documents of its Eastern Section, as well as of general documents on ecumenism.
Estonia will not renew the residence permit of Metropolitan Eugene of the Estonian Orthodox Church linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, saying he is a threat to national security.
As the Church celebrates the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, reflects on the relationship between Catholics and Orthodox 60 years after the historic encounter between Pope St. Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras.
We can meet in these days leading up to the celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity
After 18 Christians were killed in last week's bombing of the Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrios in Gaza, Patriarch Theophilos III recalls the duty of Christians to “be peacemakers and seek justice” in an interview with the Osservatore Romano.
Alberto Alfredo Winterberg, a PhD student at the University of Groningen, Netherlands, at the Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, explores the ancient Coptic Christian tradition.
The chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate was present in St Peter's Square on Wednesday for the Pope’s General Audience, after meeting on Tuesday with Archbishop Claudio Gugerotti, prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches.
Pope Francis warns against impeding aid from reaching war-torn, earthquake-struck Syria, when addressing monks and priests from Eastern Orthodox Churches.
The ecclesiastical dimension appears increasingly secondary in the exaltation of the "Russian World," pointing to the people and the empire more than liturgies and bishop's miters. Everywhere imprinted on flags, T-shirts and digital memes is the slogan "We are Russians, God is with us!" Tsar Nicholas I's battle cry in the mid-19th century Crimean War.
The nineteenth meeting of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches took place at the Logos Center of the Saint Bishoy Monastery, Egypt, from 31 January – 4 February 2023, hosted by the Coptic Orthodox Church.
The Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches has published a new document entitled “The Sacraments in the Life of the Church”
Church services have begun in Ukraine to mark the first Orthodox Christmas since Russia invaded the country last year. Worshipers gathered despite violations of an Orthodox Christmas Truce announced by Moscow.
On Christmas Eve, the synod of the Orthodox Church of Cyprus elected its new archbishop: Metropolitan Georgios of Pafos, who succeeds Chrysostomos II, who died Nov. 7.
The Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity took part in the theological dialogues with the Malankar Orthodox Churches
The Coptic Orthodox Church, the primary Christian church in Egypt, is one of the oldest branches of Christianity.
Pope Francis recalls the late Orthodox Archbishop of Cyprus, who passed away on November 7, as a man of dialogue and a lover of peace.
The Saint Irenaeus Joint Orthodox-Catholic Working Group gathered for its eighteenth annual meeting from 12 to 16 October 2022 at the Orthodox Theological Faculty of the “Babeş-Bolyai” University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
On Friday 4 August the Holy Father received in a private audience Metropolitan Antonij of Volokolamsk
The Coordinating Committee of the Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church met from 16-20 May 2022 in Rethymno (Greece).
An Inter-Orthodox Pre-Assembly Consultation was organized by the World Council of Churches in Cyprus from 10-15 May 2022.
Reconciliation, forgiveness, dialogue, and the full awareness that there can be no room for violence are underscored in an appeal for peace by a group of 233 clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church, who also expressed hopes that all soldiers, Russian and Ukrainian, can return home unharmed.
On 13 February 2022, during his visit to Paris for the anniversary of the meeting between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill, Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, visited the Russian Orthodox Seminary in France, where he was received by Metropolitan Antonij, Patriarchal Exarch for Western Europe of the Moscow Patriarchate, together with Reverend Father Alexandre Siniakov, Rector of the Seminary.
Reverend Professor Patriciu Vlaicu, of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Cluj-Napoca, will deliver the tenth lecture of the 2021‒2022 “Tillard Chair” on Friday 18 February 2022 at 5.30 pm.