The occasion marked the conclusion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity and the feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
A local pilgrimage that kicked off in January in the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis offers an opportunity to celebrate the newly canonized Martyrs of Damascus and to, in prayer, walk ...
Holy Days of Obligation are days within the Church’s liturgical year that ... but Christ appeared to him on the road to Damascus. After that Paul converted to Christianity and worked to spread ...
“The apostle Paul’s vision of Jesus Christ on the road to Damascus enjoys rich evidential support and is critical as an explanation for his dramatic about-face from persecutor of the church to ...
Many of us have seen the dramatic changes taking place in Syria since the fall of the former regime on Dec. 6.
The new leaders in Damascus repeatedly say Christians ... a road which for centuries has commemorated the conversion of Paul. But disturbed by Christmas tree arson, hundreds of Christians filled ...
The fall of the regime in Damascus has also led to a backlash against the Orthodox patriarchate heir to one of the most ...
Sent by Pope Francis, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Eastern Churches, Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti, on Thursday ...