Saturday, February 13, 2010

10/2/2010 Cyprus By Stefanos Evripidou PARLIAMENT WILL look into the Town Planning Department’s decision to grant permission for a “huge” new church next to 500-year-old Ayia Paraskevi Church in Strovolos, said DISY deputy Christos Stylianides yesterday. Plans to build the new church have met stiff opposition from local residents and environmental groups who argue that [...]

13/2/2010 On February 14, the Armenian Church celebrates the Feast of the Lord’s Presentation to the Temple. Tiarn’ndaraj, or Candlemas as it is known in the West, symbolizes the presentation of the 40 day-old Christ Child to the Temple in Jerusalem. In the tradition of the Church, Evening Services (Nakhatonak) are conducted on the night [...]

News: On 12 the February at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade, His Holiness Patriarch Irinej of Serbia has received his first official visit from a delegation from the Embassy of the United States, headed by H.E. Mary Burce Warlick, U.S. Ambassador to Belgrade. His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral Gand His Grace [...]

11/2/2010 Romanian Orthodox Church At the beginning of the year 2010, proclaimed by the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church as Anniversary Year of the Orthodox Creed and of Romanian Autocephaly, in the context of the 125th anniversary of the moment when the Romanian Orthodox Church became autocephalous and of the 85th anniversary of [...]

10/2/2010 Under the presidency of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church assembled today, February 10, 2010, at the Patriarchal Residence in Bucharest. The session was preceded by a thanksgiving service at the Patriarchal Cathedral. In the address at the opening of the meeting of the Holy Synod, His Beatitude [...]