Jonathan Luxmoore

Jonathan Luxmoore is a freelance writer covering church news from Oxford, England, and Warsaw, Poland, and serving as a staff commentator for Polish Radio. He studied modern history at the University of Oxford and international relations at the London School of Economics and was a co-founder of the Polish chapter of Transparency International, the world's largest anti-corruption nongovernmental organization. His coverage of religious affairs during the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe won five Catholic Press Association awards, and his books include The Vatican and the Red Flag (London/New York, 1999), Rethinking Christendom: Europe's Struggle for Christianity (Leominster, 2005) and a two-volume study of communist-era martyrdom, The God of the Gulag (Gracewing, 2016).

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Poland's church faces challenge from papal visit

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Brexit vote concerns European church leaders that unity may be fractured

Historic Orthodox Council ends with upbeat but cautious message

Church officials say Orthodox Council decisions will be binding

Orthodox churches set out new links for diaspora communities

Orthodox Council approves first ever joint document on mission

Orthodox Council opens with call for unity

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