Isn’t Iran a better partner for the West than Saudi Arabia?
September 9, 2016
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The Sunni-Shia conflict forces Governments to make tricky diplomatic choices. Iran seems a better prospect
Vatican working to re-establish dialogue with leading Sunni university
July 12, 2016
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Acting on Pope Francis’s wishes, a Vatican official is in Cairo to visit al-Azhar University
Pope Francis welcomes Sunni Muslim leader to Vatican
May 23, 2016
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Pope Francis held a private audience with the grand imam of Al-Azhar, the Sunni Muslim centre
Mother Teresa’s martyrs
March 17, 2016
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The four nuns served the vulnerable without regard to politics. But they were caught in the middle of Yemen’s disastrous civil war
The road back to peace
December 22, 2015
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The Middle East is more polarised along religious lines than ever before. Yet recent history shows the region can return to the enlightened tolerance it once enjoyed
The people of Aleppo are losing hope, says bishop
May 15, 2015
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Bishop Audo says that almost everyone would leave Aleppo if they could
Without action from the West the catastrophe in Syria could carry on for a decade
March 12, 2015
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The conflict is not the West’s fault. But Syria will not reach a solution on its own
We must welcome Christians fleeing the Middle East to Britain
July 24, 2014
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The long tradition of the presence of Christians in the Middle East is nearly at an end
Pope calls for prayers as militants chase all Christians out of Mosul
July 22, 2014
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Islamic State group threaten to kill any Christians who did not convert to Islam or pay a tax
‘Church in Iraq in perhaps its darkest period,’ says patriarch
July 8, 2014
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Chaldean Patriarch Louis Sako reiterates appeal for release of two nuns and three orphans