Monday, May 25, 2009

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

On 12 May 2009, His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II with accompanied people leaves for France to participate in opening of a new Georgian church there. The Patriarchate delegation includes Metropolitan Abraham (Garmelia) of Western European Eparchy, Metropolitan Dimitri (Shiolashvili) of Batumi, Lazeti and North American Eparchy, Metropolitan Gerasime (Sharashenidze) [...]

Serbian Orthodox Church With shock and sorrow the Holy Synod of Bishops has received news about the brutal violence which was applied against those afflicted with the illness of drug addiction at the Crna Reka Monastery of the Raska-Prizren Diocese. The pictures presented and the open recognition of a cleric of the Raska-Prizren Diocese are [...]

The US Vice President Joseph Biden has visited today the monastery of Visoki Dechani. On behalf of the abbot of the monastery , Vicar Bishop Teodosije of Lipljan, who takes part in the regular may session of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the high guest from the States has been [...]

Regarding the news from Diocese of Rashka and Prizren that its Bishop, His Grace Dr Artemije , ” does not give a blessing” for a visit of the US Vice President Joseph Biden to the Monastery of Visoki Dechani, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church informs the public that it annuls [...]

On Friday 15 May 2009 in the evening, immediately after his arrival in Beirut, His Excellency Jason T. Kenney visited His Holiness Aram I. The Director of the Minister’s office and the Ambassador of Canada to Lebanon accompanied the guest. The meeting lasted over an hour and conversations focused on the situation in Lebanon, particularly [...]

Helsinki, May 21, Interfax – The clerics of the Finnish Orthodox Church of the Constantinople Patriarchate are going to participate in the European Forum of LGBT Christian Groups Conference Courage to Follow the Law of Love which opened Tuesday in Järvenpää and Helsinki, Finland. The participants will begin every day by attending the Orthodox service, [...]