January 2010

01/29/2010 His Holiness Aram I has been holding private meetings with the representatives of the churches taking part in the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue Between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches. On Friday 29 January 2010, he met with Bishops Gabriel Mar Gregorios and Mathew Velanikal of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. [...]

Dr. Rowan Williams began his New York City tour this past week with duties related to his role as Archbishop of Canterbury, but ended it by demonstrating his academic acumen and continued interest in the Orthodox Christian faith. On Saturday, January 30, 2010, the Anglican archbishop delivered the 27th annual Father Alexander Schmemann Memorial Lecture— [...]

29/1/2010 By: Charles Charalambous THE TOWN Planning Department has granted permission for a “huge” new church next to 500-year-old Ayia Paraskevi Church in Strovolos (Nicosia), despite objections by Strovolos Municipality and local residents, it emerged yesterday. In a press statement, the Cyprus Social Ecology Movement slammed the proposed building of a “huge luxury church in [...]

2010-01-26 Georgian Orthodox Church Upon donation and assistance by Georgians living in the United States there is hired a premise for Holy Queen Tamar’s Church in Washington. The first Divine Liturgy was held on 8-9 of January. Upon blessing by His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and Holy Synod Decision [...]

28/1/2010 New York, January 28, 2010 — Coptic Orthodox Christians are asking their sisters and brothers in other churches to join in a day of prayer and remembrance February 14 following the January murders of six young Coptic Orthodox men in Nag Hammadi Egypt. Seven people were murdered — six Coptic Orthodox Christians and a [...]

27/1/2010 ANNISTON, AL [OCA] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah will be the keynote speaker at this year’s Ancient Christianity Conference at Saint Luke Mission here May 14-16, 2010. The conference, the theme of which is “Jesus Christ, the Great Physician,” will be sponsored by the Brotherhood of Saint Moses the Black, a pan-Orthodox, non-profit ministry [...]

29.01.2010 PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Armenian community is the biggest in Turkey, so the Turkish authorities are trying their best to destroy it, an Armenian expert said. “That’s why they don’t want the Constantinople Patriarchate to have an initiative personality at the post,” Ruben Melkonyan told a news conference in Yerevan. At that, he pointed out to [...]

Serbian Orthodox Church On January 26 at 20 hours and 15 minutes three unknown persons jumped the fence of the courtyard of the Cathedral church of the Holy Dormition of the Mother of God in Tuzla, after which they wrote on the south side of the church a graffiti of the insulting content: “Let’s kill [...]

28/1/2010 by Dana Lewis Fox News Egyptian Maher El-Gowhary and his 15 year old daughter Dina never pray twice at the same church, never stay longer than a month in any one apartment. They are constantly under threat, always on the run because they converted to Christianity in a largely Muslim country. Maher and Dina [...]

Orthodox Church of Moldova Today(27/1/2010), His Eminence Vladimir received in the diocesan administration office, His Excellency, Mr. George Georguntzosa, Greek Ambassador to Ukraine (with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Moldova). Lord Vladimir congratulated the Ambassador to the beginning of his tenure as Ambassador and expressed his hope that cooperation between the two Orthodox countries [...]

Could you worship God without the Liturgy? Without Hymns? Without the Lectionary? Without Icons? That’s why I am asking for your financial support to help. Right now, 2000 of the remaining Orthodox in China face each day without the benefit of having the liturgy, hymns and lectionary readings that is faithful to the Greek Old [...]

28/1/2010 * Serbian Church remains opposed to Kosovo independence * New Serbian Patriarch calls for cohabitation in Kosovo * Church to support Serbia’s EU bid By Aleksandar Vasovic BELGRADE, Jan 28 (Reuters) – The traditionally conservative Serbian Orthodox Church will back the country’s bid to join the European Union, but remains opposed to the independence [...]