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Sharing A Wounded Heart
By Br. Charbel Rizk (Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East) What is the purpose of this life, this monastic life, that we are living? As monks and…
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CIR ecumenical conference 2023 in Sweden
The 22nd gathering of the Conference of International Interconfessional Religious took place this year in Sweden between 31st August and 5th September. 43 monks and nuns from 8 different Church…
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Africa
United Nations, Omar Harfouch accused Lebanon to be “an anti-Semitic, discriminatory, and racist country”
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Asia
Over 2000 homes of Jehovah’s Witnesses searched in 6 years in Russia
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Bulgaria expelled a senior cleric and other priests from the Russian Church in Sofia
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HR and Religious Freedom Experts Decry Government Persecution of Minority Religion in Japan
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Break the silence on persecuted Christians
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