Saturday, December 19, 2009

Homenetmen… Does it Again!

December 19, 2009 News

18/12/2009 Full of tradition and emotion, opening of newly constructed Center attracts past and present Homenetmen leaders, members, elected officials, sister organizations and supporters. Homenetmen pulled all stops in organizing the opening ceremony of its new Western U.S. headquarters in Eagle Rock. More than 300 guests attended this historic and memorable event. Amongt the guests [...]

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Armenian church opens in SCV

December 19, 2009 News

18/12/2009 Church officials say they hope to team with local charities, teach Armenian language to youth After five years of planning and patience, the Santa Clarita Valley’s growing Armenian population has a church of its own. “It’s really important for us to bring the 600 or so families together so they can have a social [...]

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Russian Church venerating memory of most popular Christian Saint

December 19, 2009 News

19.12.2009 MOSCOW, December 19 (Itar-Tass) – Saturday, December 19 is a special day for the Russian Orthodox believers, as the Russian Orthodox Church is celebrating the memory of St Nicholas — probably the most popular Christian saint in this country. Festive liturgies are chanted in all the churches, and the Patriarch of Moscow and all [...]

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Two Syrian Orthodox Christian churches and a church school were attacked in Mosul

December 19, 2009 News

Click here to view more snaps of the attack BAGHDAD: A series of car bombs has exploded in two Iraqi cities killing at least eight people, police say. In central Baghdad three bombs killed at least four people and wounded 14 outside the heavily fortified Green Zone. That attack was followed by another co-ordinated car [...]

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His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Went on Pilgrimage Trip to Italy

December 19, 2009 News

Ukrainian orthodox Church December 18, the pilgrimage trip of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr to Italy begins. December 18 His Beatitude will conduct the All-Night Vigil service, and on December 19 – the Divine Liturgy in the place, where the venerable relics of the Holy Hierarch Nicholas the Wonderworker rest (in the city of …

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Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission completes its Work

December 19, 2009 News

17.12.2009 The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission, meeting in Chambesy, Switzerland, closed its work on December 16 with a thanksgiving. The Commission, whose task is to elaborate the agenda of a Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church, continued to consider the problem of autocephaly and ways of declaring it – the discussion which began in [...]

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New Book – The Triumphant Church: Selected Golden Nuggest from the Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church

December 19, 2009 News

The Orthodox Research Institute is pleased to announce the publication of its latest book: The Triumphant Church: Selected Golden Nuggest from the Saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church By D.H. Stamatis, Ph.D. Paperback (December 2009) ISBN: 978-1-933275-35-2 Price: $29.95 + S&H (USD) The writings of the early Church Fathers contain a myriad of spiritual gems [...]

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ARCHIEPISCOPAL ENCYCLICAL ON THE NATIVITY OF CHRIST (2009)

December 19, 2009 News

Protocol 116/09 December 25, 2009 The Nativity of Christ We have beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten Son of the Father . John 1:14 To the Most Reverend Hierarchs, the Reverend Priests and Deacons, the Monks and Nuns, the Presidents and Members of the Parish Councils of the Greek Orthodox Communities, the [...]

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In Memoriam: His Eminence Archbishop Job, Archbishop of Chicago and the Midwest

December 19, 2009 News
The Most Reverend Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest

12/18/09 SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — On Friday, December 18, 2009, His Eminence, Archbishop Job of Chicago and the Midwest unexpectedly fell asleep in the Lord. His Eminence, Archbishop Job was born Richard John Osacky in Chicago on March 18, 1946. He completed university studies at Northern Illinois University and, after graduating from Saint Tikhon [...]

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Extend Your Helping Hand to an Ailing Orthodox Parish in India

December 19, 2009 News

Category: Republished News/Request This is a formal request from the Orthodoxy Beyond Limits Forum. We would request all who read this to help an Orthodox Parish which is situated in the Thrissur Diocese of the Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church- (Orthodox Church of the East). Name of the Parish – St Thomas Orthodox Church, Elavanpadom, Chrukunnam, [...]

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