Mission in the Heart of Asia
How the meeting with the priest and the community of the Catholic parish in Fergana changed the life of a teenager Igor. The first priestly ordination of Franciscan friar from Тashkent.
Read moreHow the meeting with the priest and the community of the Catholic parish in Fergana changed the life of a teenager Igor. The first priestly ordination of Franciscan friar from Тashkent.
Read moreKyrgyzstan – archaeological map
Read moreKyrgyzstan – Protestant
Read moreKyrgyzstan – Orthodox
Read moreKyrgyzstan – all churches and chapels
Read moreKyrgyzstan – Catholic
Read moreSee photos of the church in Tashkent.
Read moreSee photos of the church in Bukhara.
Read moreSee photos of the church in Samarkand.
Read moreAbbot Gabriel works with Christian refugees in northern Iraq. Joseph Yunis is one of them. He was kidnapped by Islamist terrorists and only released after a ransom of 20,000 dollars was paid.
Read moreMore than 125,000 of Iraq’s Christians have been forced to flee the homeland they have lived in for nearly 2,000 years because of ISIS violence and threats.
Read moreQuestion and answer session: Michael Bonner, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies.
Read moreMichael Bonner – full remarks and Q&A session. Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern Christian Studies, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 9 October 2018.
Read moreMesopotamia. Land of two rivers, the Euphrates and the Tigris. Descendants of the ancient cultures are Siriacs, Arameic-speaking Christians. Nowadays the Syriacs inhabit the “Upper Mesopotamia”, which includes Northern Iraq, Turkey, and Syria – as well as Lebanon and Iran.
Read moreWhen Islamic State extremists overran Qaraqosh in Iraq, thousands of Christians had to flee. But today they are back and starting to rebuild.
Read moreMar Ith-Alaha Church is said to be the oldest church in the city of Dehok, capital of the eponymous province, in the heart of Iraqi Kurdistan.
Read moreThis video is about Jing Jiao (“Nestorian”) Christianity in China.
Read moreThe sound version of the article on Wikipedia: Assyrian Church of the East.
Read moreLecture about Assyrian Church of the East.
Read moreArchival materials – “Turkestan News” journal.
Read moreArchival materials – New Margelan (Fergana).
Read moreNestorian Stele, Assyrian Church of the East in China by Martin Palmer.
Read moreRestoration of the history of the Eastern Church in Central Asia.
Read moreHow and when did the name “Byzantine Empire” appear? How do scientists from different countries assess the role and importance of Byzantium in world history? What binds Russia and Byzantium, and why do we need to know about this power that has been separated from us for centuries?
Read moreEmperor Heraclius. The Persian Wars and the rise of Islam. Monoenergism and monofelizm. St. Sophronius of Jerusalem. Maxim the Confessor. VI Ecumenical Council. The rules of the Trullan Cathedral as the basis of modern church legislation.
Read moreA large region bounded from the north by the Caucasus range, from the west by the Kura and Araks river basins, from the south by desert lands, which is now southern Azerbaijan, in the middle of the 1st millennium it was called Arran, or Albania.
Read moreThe Iranian world met Christianity quite early. It happened on the territory of the Sassanian state – perhaps there were contacts of Iranians with Christians before, but we know practically nothing about them.
Read moreThe last section of the Great Silk Road, which connected Sogdia in Central Asia and Beijing, is an interesting part of the Christian East, where the Iranian languages, Syriac, Turkic, Mongolian, and the Chinese, or Old Chinese, interacted.
Read moreWhat is the place of St. Nino in Georgian Christianity? What problems do historians of Georgian Christian culture face? What aspects of Georgian literature still remain a mystery to historians?
Read moreWhat is the origin of an Armenian ethnic group? How did the relations between Armenia and Byzantium develop? How do monastic and military components be combined in the Armenian cultural tradition?
Read moreWhat territories did the Christian Arabs live in? How did they contribute to the spread of ancient culture in the Arab environment? What problems in the study of Arab-Christian culture are the most relevant?
Read moreWhat is the origin of the term “Arab”? What are the historical testimonies of pre-Islamic Christian Arabs? What are the main problems of studying pre-Islamic Christianity among the Arabs of Syria, Mesopotamia and South Arabia?
Read moreWhat place does Aramaic take in the development of the Syrian civilization? How did Syrian writers transmit Greek knowledge to Arab culture? What is one of the main problems in the study of the Syrian civilization?
Read moreWhat civilization circles distinguish in Eastern culture? Why are Eastern civilizations defined through religion? What are the typological features of the culture of the Christian East?
Read moreDocumentary movie about the Aramean people before and after Christianity, about their language, their culture, their religion and traditions.
Read moreInterviews with Sebastian Brock, the foremost authority in the field of Syriac language, on features of the Syriac tradition, Syriac Christology, the best Syriac authors and the leading centres for the study of Christian Syria.
Read moreThe Sasanians ruled a large empire in Central and Western Asia, stretching from the Oxus River to the Euphrates and from the Hindukush to Eastern Arabia, for over 400 years.
Read moreThis one-day seminar on “The Syriac Christian Churches” brings together leading scholars on Syriac history, literature, theology and culture.
Read moreMark Dickens from King’s University in Edmonton, Alberta, presented “The Church of the East along the Silk Road Network.” Jonathan Loopstra from the University of Northwestern, St Paul, presented “The Church of the East and the Transmission of Ancient Knowledge.” Tala Jarjour from the University of Notre Dame presented “Syriac Chant as Cultural Heritage.”
Read moreRichard Payne, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, presents “The Rise of Christianity in Iran”.
Read moreMore than 100 years ago in Tashkent, on the far outskirts of the Russian Empire, construction began on a Roman Catholic cathedral.
Read moreThese videos are aimed at general Christian education about the churches of the East that were conquered by Islam. Organised by the Australian Fellowship of Evangelical Students and Tabor College.
Read moreReport from the entrustment of Kazakhstan and Central Asia to the Mother of God, the Queen of Peace, on July 3, 2011.
Read moreA documentary about the Church in Kazakhstan and the visit of the Holy Father John Paul II.
Read moreThe Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Petropavlovsk is a unique sign of God’s victory over evil and has its dramatic history.
Read moreThree Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth from the Diocese of Kalisz are working on missions in Kazakhstan. In Kellerowka, they run a children’s nursery.
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Read moreThe film is dedicated to the 120th anniversary of the stay in Kyrgyzstan of a great shrine that has come to our lands from Mount Athos.
Read moreThe film reflects the history of Orthodoxy in Central Asia, which dates back to the beginning of the Russian resettlement in the Turkestan region from the middle of the XIX century to the present day.
Read moreVideo tells a story about catholics in Tashkent, the capital city of Uzbekistan.
Read moreA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U
Read moreCentral Asia – including areas of China, Mongolia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and Azerbejan, as well as the former Soviet Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – has an ancient Christian history of which very little is known outside a small circle of scholars and local Christian communities.
Read moreUzbekistan lies in Central Asia. Most of the 25-million population admit to a Muslim religion. On 1 April 2005 the Holy Father John Paul II created the Apostolic Administration in Uzbekistan, appointing Polish Franciscan Fr. Jerzy Maculewicz its first bishop.
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Read moreLanguage: Russian
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