05.02.2010
Address of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church before the Elections of the President of Ukraine
Dear brothers and sisters!
Honorable compatriots!
Today we are on the threshold of an important historical event – the elections of the President of Ukraine.
Every Christian should understand that the destiny of a state is arranged by the [...]
Category: File News- January 2010
One of the main activities of Eritrean embassies everywhere has been to bring all the Eritrean Orthodox Churches in Diaspora under the total control of the government. The embassies do this through intimidation and sowing seeds of discord and division. The known instruments of this nefarious campaign have been local members [...]
Puthencuriz, Kerala, India, February 1, 2009:
His Beatitude the Catholicos Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas-I today consecrated Very Rev. Geevarghese Thengumtharayil as Metropolitan by name Mor BARNABAS Geevarghese for the spiritual organizations of the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Christian Church. The divine ceremony was held at the St. Athanasius Cathedral in the Malankara Syrian Church headquarters, Puthencuriz. [...]
5/2/2010
A Romanian author has called on the country’s Orthodox Church to canonise the national poet Mihai Eminescu. He is seen as the most important 19th-century Romanian poet.
As an icon, he would not only be celebrated but would perhaps even be read again, says the daily Gândul: “Since thousands of literary critics and teachers of the [...]
2/2/2010
Al Shebab and Kamboni mujahideen extremists have joined forces with Al-Qaeda after concluding an alliance. Having already caused the deaths of several thousands of Somalis of all denominations, they have announced their intention to target the country’s Christian minority and Ethiopians.
Two bloody Islamist movements in Somalia have agreed to join forces with Al-Qaeda, an international [...]
3/2/2010
CAIRO — Egyptian activists have protested in front of parliament and called for legislation giving Christians equal rights as Muslims to build houses of worship.
The demonstrators, both Muslim and Christian, were also protesting Wednesday against the sectarian strains in the country, particularly in light of a Christmas Eve slaying of six Copts and a Muslim [...]
05/02/2010
The world’s oldest monastery of Saint Antony near Egypt’s coast town of Al-Zaafarana has opened its doors for pilgrims after almost five years of renovation, the head of the country’s Supreme Council of Antiquities has said.
The monastery, located some 200 km (124 miles) from the city of Hurghada, was founded in 356 AD immediately after [...]
Moscow, February 3, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church will appoint about 400 priests for service as armed forces chaplains in fulfillment of a directive of the chief of the General Staff late last year that instituted chaplaincy positions in the military, the website of Patriarch Kirill cited the Primate as saying.
There is a plan [...]
4/2/2010
Father Michael Harper, who died on January 6 aged 78, was for 30 years leader of the Charismatic movement in the Church of England, and his influence extended to many other parts of the world and to several other Churches.
He left the Anglican Church in 1995 however after its decision to ordain women priests. [...]
4/2/2010
Pristina – Kosovo’s government said Thursday it would allow the ceremonial enthronement of Irinej, patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, in a monastery in the breakaway province but would not tolerate political speeches. “If his (Irinej’s) request is of religious character I do not think we will refuse it,” Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci told [...]
4/2/2010
At the Patriarchal Cathedral in Bucharest, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, has celebrated, together with Most Rev. Nicolae, Romanian Orthodox Archbishop of the Americas, and His Grace Ciprian, Patriarchal Vicar Bishop, a Thanksgiving (Te Deum) service on the 85th Anniversary of the Romanian Patriarchate and a memorial service for the patriarchs [...]
Romanian Orthodox Church
On February 2, 2010, on the occasion of the Great Feast of the Presentation of the Lord, at the Old Court Church in Bucharest, with the feasts of the Presentation and of St. Anthony the Great, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel consecrated the museum of this parish, which exhibits liturgical objects from the treasury [...]
Romanian Orthodox Church
On February 2, 2010, on the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, in the Patriarchal Chapel, before the celebration of the Holy Liturgy, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel and His Grace Varsanufie, Auxiliary Bishop of the Bucharest Archdiocese, consecrated 1.001 new Antimensions, which will be offered to all the parishes, monasteries and [...]
3/1/2010
Serbian Orthodox Church
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, at the St. Sava church in London the Patron Saint’s day of the church was formally celebrated. Most of the priests from the United Kingdom served with the head of the church, father Milun Kostic, as well as the head of the church Lazarica from Krusevac, [...]
Serbian Orthodox Church
2/2/2010
The information and publishing institution of the Serbian Orthodox Church in the cooperation with the Ministry of Religion of the Republic of Serbia, in a remembrance of Patriarch Pavle of Serbia and the days of his magnificent sendoff, printed the photo album From Death into Life. As a little credit from [...]
On Sunday, January 31 2010, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy at the Church of the Podvorye of the Russian Orthodox Church in Belgrade on the ocassion of the first anniversary of the enthronement of His Holiness Patriarch Kyrril of Moscow and all Russia with concelebration of the Belgrade [...]
30/1/ 2010
Regarding the statement of His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia in which he expresses regret and extend his apology for his reckless statement that hurted the feelings of many Muslims, Riyasah of Islamic Community of Serbia has published the following communiqué:
Only God does not sin. People make mistakes, and when they do it [...]
Antelias, Lebanon, January 27 to 31, 2010
The seventh meeting of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches took place at the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia in Antelias, Lebanon, from January 27 to 31, 2010. The meeting was graciously hosted by His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos [...]
“Depicting the present state of the ecumenical movement in terms of crisis has become a general trend; I do not share this approach” stated His Holiness Aram I. He said that “seeking new vision, redefining its orientation, revising its agenda, restructuring its programmatic priorities are integral to the very nature of the ecumenical movement”. Catholicos [...]
2.02.2010
The Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church pointed to the support of fraternal relations within the family of Local Orthodox Churches as one of the most important tasks of his Patriarchal ministry. ‘We should remember: the Holy Orthodox Church is one as the Lord is one. All the Orthodox nations comprise it’, he [...]
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