New York – Archbishop Khajag Barsamian, Primate of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), attended a meeting of the Standing Conference of the Oriental Orthodox Churches in America on Tuesday, May 18.
The meeting, held at the Archdiocese of the Syriac Orthodox Church in Paramus, N.J., was led by Standing Conference chairperson Archbishop [...]
HOLLYWOOD – A Fort Lauderdale church’s plan to relocate to this city is threatening to reopen one of the most divisive and costly legal battles in recent history.
In court documents filed Friday, leaders of the St. Gregorios Orthodox Church of India are claiming the city is violating their constitutional rights by making them obtain special [...]
The Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) Daniel will visit the Ecumenical Patriarchy of Istanbul on May 27- June 2, this being his first visit there as the head of the Romanian Patriarchy, BOR sources inform.
On this special occasion, BOR Patriarch is to meet the Romanian believers living in Turkey and to open the [...]
Moscow, May 26, Interfax – The 4th all-Orthodox pre-conciliar consultation is to be held in the Constantinople Patriarchate Orthodox center in Chambésy on June 6-13, 2009.
“Participants will touch upon the topic of organizing Orthodox diaspora (Orthodox believers living out of borders of any local Orthodox church),” Acting Secretary of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External [...]
During the first week of June, His Grace Bishop ANTOUN, His Grace Bishop JOSEPH, His Grace Bishop BASIL, His Grace Bishop THOMAS, His Grace Bishop MARK, and His Grace Bishop ALEXANDER will travel to Damascus, Syria at the invitation of His Beatitude IGNATIUS IV, Patriarch of Antioch and all of the East. They will meet [...]
When U.S. President Barrack Obama visited Turkey last month, he raised the plight of a small religious school of the Greek Orthodox Church. The Halki seminary was closed by the government in 1971, and despite intense pressure by the church and diplomats the school has remained shut. But pressure is growing on Ankara to reopen [...]
From 16 to 22 May 2009, His Holiness Patriarch Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas went on an official visit to Greece, as the guests of the Greek Government and the Greek Orthodox Church. His Holiness was accompanied in this visit by His Eminence Mor Philexinos Mathias Nayis, Patriarchal Assistant, His Eminence Mor Daniel Kourieh, Metropolitan [...]
Over 1,800,000 Romanians celebrate their name day on Thursday , according to a release of the Interior Ministry. Out of the 1,836,266 Romanians who bear the names Constantin and Elena, 1,180,697 are women while 655,596 are men.
The Bucharest-based Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) Patriarchy celebrates its saint patrons Constantine and Helen, on Thursday [...]
BELGRADE, May 23 (Reuters) – The Serbian Orthodox Church ordered the closure on Saturday of a treatment centre for drug abusers after a video showed a patient being beaten with a shovel, punched and kicked as part of supposed treatment.
The Holy Synod, the church’s top body, asked Bishop Artemije, the head of the local diocese, [...]
ISTANBUL (Reuters) — One of the world’s oldest functioning Christian monasteries has won a legal battle to have land it had owned for centuries restored to it, after a Turkish court ruled on Friday it could not be claimed by the state.
The dispute over the boundaries of Mor Gabriel, a fifth-century Syriac Orthodox monastery in [...]
Baroness Cox puts down a Written Question in the House of Lords on 18 May 2009 about the demolision of the service building belonging to the Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Marsah Matrouh.
Baroness Cox – To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will make representations to the Government of Egypt about reports that their state security [...]
Coptic Orthodox Church
Bishop Bishoi, secretary of the Holy Synod, denied what some newspapers said about nominations for the succession of Pope Shenouda, Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of the Saint Mark Episcopate, or about changing bylaws, saying that there is no one better than the Pope, and that it is not the right time [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Archbishop Demetrios of America presented a special award to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a small ceremony yesterday at the State Department.
The ceremony took place in the Treaty Room shortly after Secretary Clinton received Archbishop Demetrios and a delegation of leaders of the National Coordinated Effort of Hellenes (CEH) who [...]
MOSCOW — Festivities in Rome this weekend for the dedication of an Orthodox church on the grounds of the Russian Embassy near the Vatican attest to a surprising but marked warming of relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Vatican in recent months, according to church officials and analysts.
If trends hold true, they add, [...]
The official opening of the Archbishop Anastasios and Archbishop Demetrios Mission Training Center in St. Augustine, Florida was held this morning. Currently we are at the special Luncheon celebrating this extraordinary event which celebrates the erecting of the first official center for a SCOBA Agency. Representatives of all of the Orthodox Jurisdictions were [...]
INDIANAPOLIS, IN [Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black/OCA Communications] — The Brotherhood of St. Moses the Black will host its 16th annual Ancient Christianity Conference here at the Marten House Hotel from Friday through Sunday, May 29-31, 2009.
With the theme “Jesus Christ: Joy and Sorrow,” this year’s conference will feature “Orthodoxy 101″ — introductory presentations [...]
St. Augustine, FL – The OCMC Board of Directors gathered at the Renaissance Resort at the World Golf Village on May 19 and 20 for their annual Spring Board Meeting. The occasion for this meeting, however, was of tremendous significance, as it immediately preceded the dedication of the new Archbishop Anastasios and Archbishop Demetrios Missionary [...]
Synodal Military Department of the UOC Organized Pilgrimage Trip to the Holy Dormition Pochayiv Lavra for Cadets of the Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs
On May 16-17, this year, a group of cadets of the Academic Staff Training Institute of the Criminal Police to the Kyiv National University of Internal Affairs completed their pilgrimage [...]
Chinese Orthodox Church
In the morning of May 9th, in front of the memorial Cross, erected in 1997 on the premises of the Russian Embassy in the Peoples Republic of China “to honor and remember the compatriots who had died and were buried in this land”, a Panikhida was held to remember the soldiers who had [...]
Ukrainian Orthodox Church
On May 18-21, at the invitation of the Ukraine’s State Committee for Nationalities and Religious Affairs the delegation of the State Ethnic Affairs Commission of the People’s Republic of China, headed by Mr. Yang Jianqiang, stays in Ukraine at present.
On May 20 the delegation, accompanied by chair of the Ukraine’s State Committee [...]
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