Monday, February 1, 2010

Australia Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the National Organization of Vityazi

February 1, 2010 News

Russian Church Outside Russia 27/1/2010 The Vityazi Camp is located in one of the most beautiful sections of the Blue Hills—a tourist attraction of Sydney. Friends of the organization and other guests came to celebrate the 50th anniversary with the campers. The Vityazi were led on a parade by new junior counselors Pavel Pliusch and [...]

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Blessings of the Patriarch

February 1, 2010 News

Members of Russian National Olympic team pose for a picture with Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Kirill, center, at Christ the Savior Cathedral after a blessing ceremony in Moscow, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010. Source:

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INAUGURATION OF THE NEW PATRIARCHAL MUSEUM OF THE ST SAVVAS MONASTERY IN ALEXANDRIA

February 1, 2010 News

On 18th January 2010, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa officiated and preached the homily at the Divine Liturgy in the packed Holy patriarchal Church of St Savvas the Sanctified on Alexandria., on the feast of the commemoration of Ss Athanasios and Kyrilos, Patriarchs of Alexandria, Afterwards, His Beatitude, [...]

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His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Elected Chairman of Inter-Counciliar Assembly’s Commission for Counteracting and Overcoming Ecclesiastical Schisms

February 1, 2010 News

On January 29, in the course of the first session of the Inter-Conciliar Assembly, held under presidency of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow, thirteen commissions of the Inter-Conciliar Assembly and their composition were approved. The following commissions were set up: – commission for theological [...]

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His Beatitude Metroipolitan Volodymyr Installs Hegumeness at St. Anastasia of Kyiv Convent

February 1, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On January 25 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church performed the Divine Liturgy at the church of the Nativity of the Holy Theotokos in Kovalivka village, Vasylkiv disctrict of the Kyiv region. Concelebrating to His Beatitude were Archbishop Pavel of Vyshgorod, Archbishop Metrophanes of Bila Tserkva and Bohuslav, Archbishop …

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The Memory of Florin Zamfirescu, Evoked by the Romanian Patriarch during the Standing Meeting of the National Church Council

February 1, 2010 News

28/1/2010 Romanian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel has evoked the memory of journalist Florin Zamfirescu today, January 28, 2010, during the Standing Meeting of the National Church Council which took place at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. Florin Zamfirescu was one of the founders and the director of the first Christian daily newspaper in [...]

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Meeting the Injured

February 1, 2010 News

31/1/2010 By Nash’at Abul-Kheir The Nag Hammadi drive-by shooting on Christmas Eve left six Copts dead and nine injured. Six of the injured are now in Alexandria for advanced treatment. Watani visited them “Following Midnight Mass in Mar-Youhanna Church on Christmas Eve, I left church with a friend and loitered for some minutes in the [...]

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Patriarch Kirill marks first year as Russian Church Primate

February 1, 2010 News

Moscow, January 27, Interfax – It is exactly a year to the day when Metropolitan Kirill was elected to Moscow patriarchal see to become the 16th Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church. The new primate was elected at a Local Council in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on January 27, 2009. On the eve, [...]

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Primate of the Orthodox Church in the Czech Lands and Slovakia lectures to the Postgraduate Students

February 1, 2010 News

Inter Orthodox Relations Russian- Czech Lands and Slovakia Orthodox Churches On 28 January 2010, at the Moscow Patriarchate Department for external church relations, His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia read a lecture to the students of the Ss Cyril and Methodius Postgraduate and Doctoral Programme of the Russian Orthodox Church. Archbishop [...]

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Russia donates $2 mln to restore and protect four Kosovo Monasteries

February 1, 2010 News

Belgrade, January 29, Interfax – Russia will donate $2 million to four monasteries in Serbian district of Kosovo and Metochia, Serbian Minister of Culture Nebojsa Bradic told Serbian RTS TV. These funds will be forwarded to renovate and secure protection of monasteries Visoki Decani, Gracanica, Mother of God of Levis and the Patriarchal See of [...]

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Russian Cathedral is probable to appear near Eiffel Tower

February 1, 2010 News

Moscow, January 29, Interfax – Russia applied for participating in a contest for a lot of land to build an Orthodox church in Paris. “The Executive Office of President on behalf of the Russian Federation in compliance with the governmental order participates in a contest for purchasing a lot of land in Paris. In case [...]

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