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Interview with POI rector, Fr. Cyril Vasil'
After the news Editoriale by Fr. Federico Lombardi, see POI's rector, Rev. Fr. Cyril Vasil as he is interviewed by CTV
on occasion of the visit by His Holiness Bartholomew I, March 6, 2008
(video total time: 7'11")




Here the speech delivered by the Patriarch: "THEOLOGY, LITURGY AND SILENCE"

Here the picture gallery


Video courtesy by CTV
 
LET THE WEST SPEAK UP BEFORE THE TRAGEDY
"The United Nations must take care of the Iraqi refugees in Jordan (1 million, editor’s note), including 25 thousand Christians. Jordan is a small country and cannot receive all this mass of people. Thousands are still arriving, including Shiites, Sunnis and Christians". The seriousness of the state of the Iraqi refugees is denounced by father Raymond Moussalli, patriarchal vicar of the Chaldeians in Jordan. “All these people live in state of extreme uncertainty – he says to SIR –. They can only live off the money they receive from their relatives in the USA, Australia or Europe. Many work illegally. No one has any papers, the residence permit lasts just three months and when it expires they have to pay a residence tax of about 2 dollars a day. And the children born here have to pay as well. Only those who have family abroad can afford to live here". To cope with this situation, which is having “dramatic” repercussions on housing, education and health care as well, father Moussalli asks for “a powerful action from the United Nations. As a Church, we are working through Caritas but our means are limited”. “Let the West – he concludes – speak up before the Iraqi tragedy. The Iraqis want peace and love their land. Help us go back home".
News by SIR
 
For Christians and Muslims, faith and reason do not conflict and are nonviolent

Faith and reason are both gifts of God, do not contradict each other and are by nature nonviolent, even if sometimes they have been used to justify violence.  This appears to the central conclusion of the meeting held at  the Vatican between the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and the Iranian Islamic Culture and Relations Organisation. 

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On Cyril and Methodius
santi-cirillo-metodio.jpgDear brothers and sisters:

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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The Pontifical Oriental Institute (POI - or PIO in Italian version - Pontificio Istituto Oientale) is an educational facility under the jurisdiction of the Holy See dedicated to advanced studies on Eastern Christianity. This Pontifical Institute of  the Oriental Church has  a special Catholic mission. Its Catholic mission aims at diffusing knowledge and appreciation for the religious and cultural traditions of the Eastern Christian churches. Its Eastern orientation is recognized by the two faculties of specialization offered: the Faculty of Eastern Church Studies and the Faculty of Eastern Canon Law. The Oriental Institute is also dedicated to the progression in ecumenical dialogue between the churches and holds a student body composed from among all creeds.


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