Cyprus Church leader Archbishop Chrysostomos II laid to rest
Nicosia, Cyprus AP Chrysostomos II, the leader of Cyprus’ Orthodox Church, was laid to rest Saturday with a ceremony that reflected centuries of ecclesiastical tradition, eulogised as his church’s greatest reformer and an outspoken fighter for his people. The spiritual head of the world’s 300 million Orthodox, Istanbul-based Patriarch Bartholomew, was dressed in resplendent Byzantine […]
Eighty per cent of religious discrimination targets Christians, conference hears
World Watch Monitor Christians are the victims in 80 per cent of acts of religious discrimination, despite only accounting for 30 per cent of the global population, a conference in Washington heard this week. The statistics, from the International Society for Human Rights, were presented on Tuesday at the 3rd International Conference on Religious Freedom – an […]