Sunday, October 11, 2009

Baltimore, Md. (IOCC) — International Orthodox Christian Charities (IOCC) is part of a coordinated international effort to bring relief to the thousands that have been displaced by Typhoon Ketsana in the Philippines and the 7.6 magnitude earthquake that devastated western Sumatra in Indonesia. Typhoon Ketsana struck the Philippines on September 26 and the subsequent floods [...]

His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has approved the date and program of celebrations to mark the 10th anniversary of Orthodoxy in Thailand. The festivities will take place from December 18 to 28, 2009, the Orthodox Church in Thailand website has reported. A church delegation from Russia will be led by Archbishop [...]

Representatives of two Bulgarian nationalist parties staged a protest Sunday against a congress of the Jehovah’s Witnesses taking place in the northeast city of Dobrich. About 100 mostly young members of the Ataka and VMRO parties from Dobrich and the nearby city of Varna gathered before the Dobrich Hall where about 600 members of the [...]

During the second day of his official visit to Cyprus the Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov met in Paphos with Archbishop Chrysostomos II. The head of the Cypriot Orthodox Church asked the president to talk with Bulgarian members of the European Parliament and with Bulgarian officials in the European institutions, so as to find ways to [...]

MOSCOW, October 6 (RIA Novosti) – The head of the Russian Orthodox Church’s external church relations department has denied reports that a Vatican meeting of the Russian Church leader and the pope is being prepared. “There is no preparation for the patriarch’s trip to the Vatican or his meeting with the pope in any specific [...]