#Christian unity

Pope Francis: to Bartholomew I, “closeness between our Churches is an indispensable contribution to universal brotherhood”

Focolare Movement. Margaret Karram: “We seek to bring human fraternity and peace  where the cry of disunity is loudest”

Interview with Margaret Karram, Arab, Christian-Catholic president of the Focolare Movement. She was born in Haifa, in the Holy Land,…

Week for Christian unity: to abide and continue our journey

The ecumenical breath ushered in by the Council has thrust the pace of the Church forward in recent decades, permeating…

Chiara Lubich. Zanzucchi: “She brought millions of people back to the heart of the Gospel”

Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolare Movement, was born today, January 22, one hundred years ago, in Trent (Italy). “Chiara’s…

Migrants: Catholics and Protestants, may the Italian Government promote a “European humanitarian corridor”

Week of Prayer: Card. Koch (Holy See), “recovering unity also means overcoming the injustice of division” between the Churches

Pope Francis: audience, appeal to “pray that all Christians may once again be a single family”. “Ecumenism is not something optional”

Orthodox schism, Moscow speaks out. Hilarion: “Constantinople has lost this role. Half of all Orthodox Christians in the world are not in communion with it”

More strong words stressing the consequences of the “Orthodox schism” on inter-Orthodox relations were delivered by Metropolitan Hilarion in this…

Orthodox schism, Constantinople speaks out. Chryssavgis: “A schism created for an abuse of power”

“This was a schism created for no other reason than an abuse of power resulting in millions of Orthodox believers…

+++ Metropolitan Hilarion: “It is a schism”. “We will not participate in any Commission chaired or co-chaired by the Patriarch of Constantinople” +++

Moscow-Constantinople. Metropolitan Hilarion: “Patriarch Bartholomew has opted for a schism”

We are facing a “schism” between the Patriarchate of Moscow and the Patriarchate of Constantinople. Russia Metropolitan Hilarion pointed at…