COULD ORTHODOX CHURCHES RECOGNISE THE POPE? IT'S NO LONGER COMPLETELY UNTHINKABLE

 Mark Woods, Christian Today

Is the thousand-year-old breach between the Catholic and Orthodox Churches a little closer to being mended?

MOSCOW V CONSTANTINOPLE: THE BATTLE OVER UKRAINE'S ORTHODOX CHRISTIANS

Mark Woods Christian Today Contributing Editor 13 September 2016

Russian military intervention in Ukraine, including annexing the Crimea and supporting separatists in the east of the country, has poisoned relationships between the two states and outraged international opinion.

WHY THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH HAS TURNED ON UKRAINE'S CATHOLICS

  Mark Woods Christian Today Contributing Editor,

Tensions between Churches in Ukraine have risen sharply in recent years because of Russia's annexation of Crimea and its incursion into the east of the country. Different Churches are loyal to Moscow and Kiev, and the country's bitter divisions are fought out among them as well as in the political arena. 

PAN-ORTHODOX COUNCIL: IT WILL GO AHEAD WITH OR WITHOUT YOU, THEOLOGIAN TELLS CHURCHES

  

 Mark Woods, christian today

The troubled Pan-Orthodox Council is set to begin on Saturday in Crete, but without some key players. First envisaged 55 years ago, it was designed to bring together all of the 14 autocephalous or self-governing Orthodox Churches in the first such gathering since the 8^th century.

THE HOLY AND GREAT COLLAPSING COUNCIL: WHY EASTERN ORTHODOXY IS IN TROUBLE

 Mark Woods, Christian Today

Eastern Orthodox Churches are gathering shortly in Crete for a highly significant 'Holy and Great Council' aimed at ironing out knotty problems that have accumulated over the last few centuries.