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Iraq - SYSTEMATIC VIOLENCE AGAINST CHRISTIANS
Threatened and hurt by systematic violence, but with vivid and strong faith. Thus Msgr. Crispin Hollis, managing the International Affairs Department of the English Bishops’ Conference, described the Iraqi Christian community. During a Mass “for the Iraqi Christians”, celebrated at Westminster Cathedral yesterday, in which he illustrated the stages of his recent journey to the North of Iraq, Msgr. Hollis recalled that “we think we know what’s going on in Iraq quite well, but our knowledge of facts derives from what we have read about military activities in progress in Baghdad or Bassora. But if we widen the horizon outside the military field, we shall realize how the Christian community is suffering and continuously threatened and subjected to violence”. This situation, explained the bishop, “has seriously wounded the community, depriving it of bishops, priests and laymen, killed by extremists of any kind. People have been systematically and endlessly killed”. In spite of everything, “I found bishops, priests and laymen with vivid faith. I didn’t see despair; I met people with strong faith. That experience was real blessing”. In the end, Msgr. Hollis asked the believers present, mostly Iraqi people living in London, to join the prayer for peace in the country and for the end of sufferings by the Iraqi people.

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RUMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: THE PATRIARCHATE LAUNCHES A PRESS AGENCY
The Rumanian Orthodox Patriarchate launches its own press agency, "Basilica". The new Patriarch Daniel has always been interested in mass media. When he was a metropolitan bishop in Iasi, he launched a newspaper and a radio that eventually covered nearly three quarters of Romania. Just after being appointed Patriarch, he created the "Basilica" media centre of the Patriarchate, which includes the newspaper "Ziarul Lumina" and the radio "Radio Trinitas" - relocated from Iasi to Bucharest -, the TV channel "Televiziunea Trinitas", which since December has been broadcasting by cable and satellite, and the press office of the Patriarchate. Now he has added the press agency "Basilica" which will electronically provide information on the institutions, activities and positions of the Rumanian Orthodox Church and other churches on different topics. The website of the agency - http://www.basilica.ro/ - will be available in Rumanian, English, French and Russian, and information will be available for free to private people or institutions, even in a professional capacity, provided the source is mentioned.

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TURKEY: OPENING OF THE PAULINE YEAR - THE PRESENCE OF ERDOGAN IS WELCOME
"The presence of Premier Erdogan at the ceremony would be meaningful and much appreciated. His participation would further underline the importance of this Year. We are waiting for an answer". Those words (today visible at agensir.it) were told SIR Europe by Msgr. Luigi Padovese, president of the Turkish bishops, while speaking about the next opening of the Pauline Year in Tarsus, on 22nd June, in the presence of Card. Walter Kasper, president of the Papal Council for the promotion of Christian unity. "The Pauline Year will confirm the importance of this land for all Christians, as well as for Turkish Muslims". The bimillenary of the Apostle, according to the bishop, "will also be precious for getting in touch again with those Christian roots uniting the ecclesial communities in Europe and also outside". On speaking about the opening, Msgr. Padovese pointed out that "it will be an ecumenical ceremony: the greetings by Card. Kasper will be followed by a prayer with the representatives of all confessions and rites which are present in Turkey, and by the reading of a message by ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I". Finally, the big flow of arriving pilgrims reproposes the necessity to have a church in Tarsus: "We hope that the state authorities will concede us a church; the pilgrims coming to visit and venerate the Apostle must do that in a museum and that is quite strange. Praying in a church is not a grace but a right".
 
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Today, I would like to speak about Sts. Cyril and Methodius, brothers of the same parents and in the faith, known as the apostles to the Slavic people. Cyril was born in Thessalonica, son of the imperial magistrate Leon, in 826-827. He was the youngest of seven children. As a child, he learned the Slavic language. At age 14, he was sent to Constantinople to be educated and was accompanied by the young emperor, Michael III. During those years, he was introduced into the various university disciplines, among others, dialectics, and had Photius as his teacher. After having rejected a brilliant matrimony, he decided to receive holy orders and became the librarian in the patriarchate. Shortly afterward, wanting to retreat from society, he hid himself in a monastery, but soon was discovered and entrusted with teaching sacred and profane sciences, a task that he fulfilled so well that he won the title of "philosopher."
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