Rev Fr Alexander Kurien Washington, DC 21/5/13 As you have been following the news -- a giant tornado killed at least 90 people, 20 of them children, as it tore across parts of Oklahoma City and its suburbs Monday afternoon, flattening homes, tossing cars through the air and crushing at least two schools. Let us pray for the victims, ...
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21/5/13 Father David and Matushka Rozanne Rucker have been mission specialists for many years with the Orthodox Christian Mission Center (OCMC), which has missionaries around the world under the umbrella of the Assembly of Bishops. Guatemala has seen an explosive growth of Orthodox Christianity among thousands of indigenous Mayans, so now the Ruckers will be going ...
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21/5/13 On May 17, in the Dormition Monastery in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, a dome cross and a bell were placed on a church which had been designed as early as in 1909 but was built only in 2012, reports RIA Novosti agency. In 1909, the Architect Leonid Cheryshev designed the stone church for the Dormition ...
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21/5/13 The escalation of Muslim attacks on Christian churches in Egypt continues unabated. This week two attacks were carried out, one in Alexandria and one in Menbal in Upper Egypt—both allegedly prompted by harassment of Muslim women. Yesterday the church of St. Mary, in the Dakhela district, west of Alexandria, was attacked by Molotov cocktails and ...
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YONKERS, NY [SVOTS Communications/Virginia H. Nieuwsma] 21/5/13 Seventeen graduates from Saint Vladimir’s Seminary are now being sent out as priests, deacons, and lay ministers in service to the Church. At Commencement Exercises on Saturday, May 18, 2013, the seminary awarded diplomas in three programs: one Master of Theology, eight Masters of Divinity, and eight Masters of Arts ...
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