Sunday, August 9, 2009

OCMC NEWS His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria Visits Northern Cameroon and Receives Recognition of the Orthodox Church from the Cameroonian President His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, celebrated his name day on 17th February 2009 with the children of Orthodox African families in Northern Cameroon [...]

CAIRO, Jul 30 (IPS) – A handful of recent clashes between Muslims and Christians has again raised the spectre of sectarian discord in Egypt. The incidents, though relatively minor, highlight longstanding tensions between the country’s Muslim majority and its Christian minority. “As long as Egypt’s Christian community suffers from official bias by the state, inter-communal [...]

Moscow, August 6, Interfax – Pastoral visit of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine dismantled the myth about influential opposition to the Russian Orthodox Church existing there, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk believes. “The number of opponents (to the patriarchal visit – IF) was so [...]

On Thursday 29 July 2009, His Holiness Aram I received Mr Hrant Markarian, the representative of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation. They discussed ways of strengthening relations between Armenia and the diaspora and issues arising from the latest pan-Armenian Conference on Armenian-Turkish relations, held in Stepanakert, Artzakh, Karabagh. At the end of the meeting, His …