TBILISI — Georgian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Iliya II has criticized President Mihkeil Saakashvili for his actions in South Ossetia in August 2008 that led to a military conflict with Russia, RFE/RL’s Georgian Service reports.
Independent television station Maestro showed Patriarch Iliya at a meeting with teachers on October 16 in which he said it [...]
Serbian Orthodox Church
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OCA Delegation in Georgia
TBLISI, GEORGIA [OCA Communications/St. Catherine Representation Church] — On Thursday, October 15, 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, the Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, visited the Office of International Orthodox Christian Charities [IOCC] in the Georgian captial, where he had the opportunity to speak with its director and staff. Also [...]
Latvian Orthodox Church
Many years to His Eminence Metropolitan ALEKSANDR
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OCA Delegation in Georgia
On Friday, October 16, 2009, His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH of All America and Canada, by invitation of His Eminence, Metropolitan DIMITRI of Batumi and Lazeti, visited several of the parishes, monasteries and social institutions of Batumi during his short stay there as a guest of the Georgian Orthodox Church.
The day began with [...]
TBLISI, GEORGIA [OCA Communications/St. Catherine Representation Church] — On Wednesday, October 14, 2009, the Feast of the Protection of the Most Holy Theotokos and Ever Virgin Mary and also the Feast of the Georgian Orthodox Church called “Mtskhetoba-Svetitskhovloba,” commemorating the placing of the Holy Tunic of the Lord, the Primates of the Georgian Orthodox Church [...]
Serbian Orthodox Church
With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Pavle of Serbia and His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, His Grace Bishop Atanasije received on October 6, 2009 at the Patriarchate court in Belgrade a high delegation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, led by His Excellence Dr Mehdi Mostafavi, councilor [...]
APPEAL
to the faithful people in Kosovo and Metohija,
on the occasion of holding local elections scheduled
for November 15, 2009
We call the faithful people in Kosovo and Metohija, for disrespect of the basic human rights in this Province of the Republic of Serbia guaranteed by the The Charter of the United Nations and especially by the [...]
SYRIAC LEXICON
The second edition of Carl Brockelmann’s Lexicon Syriacum, published in 1928, is rightly considered to be the best dictionary of Syriac ever written. However, its Latin language and the ordering of words according to triliteral Semitic roots make its use difficult for most students and scholars. Moreover, the dictionary was composed in an extremely [...]
CAIRO: Tensions between the Coptic Orthodox Church and Coptic evangelicals resurfaced this week, excited by accusations presented at a recent Orthodox doctrinal conference in al-Fayyoum. According to Al-Masry Al-Youm, Bishop Bishoy, the secretary general of the Holy Synod, warned fellow clergy about “attempts at denomination invasion” on the part of nation’s evangelical population during the [...]
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for external church relations and rector of the Sts Cyril and Methodius Church Graduate and Doctorate School, gave lectures at St. Petersburg Theological Seminary and Academy, on 13 October 2009.
In the beginning of the meeting which took place at the Academy’s assembly hall, His Eminence [...]
Rev. George Zavershinsky, PhD, DPhil, DECR communication director, led the work of the section on the Trinitarian Theology Today: Science and Witness of the jubilee, 20th annual conference of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University, on 11 October 2009.
St Tikhon Orthodox University
20th annual conference of St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Humanitarian University section on Trinitarian Theology Today: [...]
Archbishop Hilarion of Volokolamsk: Lithuania and Russia are leaders in the number of suicides. The scale of this tragedy is a reason to think and begin speaking about the causes of such shameful ‘leadership’
The secretariat of the Christian Inter-confessional Consultative Committee of the CIS and Baltic Counties (CICCC) met on 15 October, 2009, at the [...]
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