Friday, February 26, 2010

Romanian Orthodox Church 24/2/2010 On 24 February 2010, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, received, at the Patriarchal Residence, His Excellency Mr. Spyros Attas, Ambassador of the Republic of Cyprus in Romania, according to Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchy. His Excellency thanked for reception and conveyed a message of friendship and [...]

Romanian Orthodox Church 23/2/2010 On 23 February 2010, at 2.00 o’clock p.m., the Romanian Patriarchy organised a press conference on the theme of the project for the Cathedral for the Nation’s Salvation, in Europa Christiana room, in the Patriarchal Palace. The Conference was held by His Grace Ciprian Câmpineanul, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch and [...]

26/2/2010 Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch, his beatitude Tewdros II (Patriarchate of Alexandria) expressed appreciation to religious tolerance in Ethiopia. The Patriarch who was here on an eight-day visit to Ethiopia said up on his departure to home at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport that he was impressed with the tolerance in which the various [...]

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch JORDAN – Saturday Feb 13, 2010: Foundation stone for a new Syrian Orthodox church in the name of Saint John the Baptist was laid on the baptism site of our Lord Jesus in Jordan by the Patriarchal Vicar of Holy Land His Eminence Mor Severius Malki Murad, in the presence [...]

24/2/2010 Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, has sent birthday greetings to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, welcoming the “friendship mutual trust and sincerity which has always characterized our conversations” as “a great gift and a sign of progress in relations between our churches.” Technically Patriarch [...]

23/2/2010 Serbia has issued an international warrant for the arrest of a priest from Kosovo suspected of embezzling state and church funds. Belgrade’s Higher Court says it has launched an investigation against Simeon Vilovski on suspicion that he embezzled money that was meant for reconstruction of churches in Kosovo. Media have reported that Vilovski has [...]

25/2/2010 On Monday morning, the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodore II, met with the President of Ethiopia, Ato Girma Woldegiorgis. The meeting took place at the presidential mansion – formerly the emperor’s palace – in the presence of the Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, Pavlos. For about one hour, the Ethiopian president [...]

Patriarch Kiril Visits Ukraine 25/2/2010 On February 24, upon arrival to Boryspil airport, addressing the mass-media, the Patriarch said, among the other: «I came to Kyiv in order to pray tomorrow inside the historical walls of the Kyiv Caves Monastery – the place that the Russian Church comes from, the great spiritual tradition of the [...]

Ukraine’s President-elect Viktor Yanukovych, right, meets with Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill during a religious service marking the presidential inauguration in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra church in Kiev, Ukraine,Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010. Viktor Yanukovych has been inaugurated as Ukraine’s president, five years after his first bid failed amid massive protests over vote fraud. Source:

25/2/2010 Word by His Holiness Patriarch Kirill at Sts Anthony and Theodosius (Refectory) Church of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra Today we prayed that God blessed Your entering the office of the President of Ukraine. The religious understanding of power is related to service. Human authority makes no sense before God, there is only one meaning – [...]

25-02-2010 On February 24 in the evening the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church is coming to Ukraine. On the eve of the remembrance of the Synaxis of the Venerable Fathers of the Kyiv Caves he will pray at the Church of elevation of the Holy Cross of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and will visit …

23/2/2010 CAIRO — An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced five men to life in prison for killing two Coptic Christian men in a blood-feud in Upper Egypt. The court in Luxor ruled that the men were guilty of murder and were sentenced accordingly, a court official told Bikya Masr. “The men have gotten what they [...]