Saturday, March 20, 2010

Response of the President of Croatia Ivo Josipovic to Bishop Fotije of Dalmatia

March 20, 2010 News

Serbian Orthodox Church Your Eminence, Thank you for greetings you have sent regarding my election for President of the Republic of Croatia, and the good wishes for the successful conduct of the responsible duties. I am familiar with the situation regarding the advertising of the president of the Croatian Orthodox community and his announcement of [...]

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SPC concerned over decrease in KFOR Troops

March 20, 2010 News

20/3/2010 BELGRADE — A delegation of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Synod is expressing concern over the decrease in the number of KFOR troops in Kosovo. The delegation was in Paris and Berlin speaking with Germany and French officials, two countries that decreased the number of troops they had in the NATO peacekeeping mission in [...]

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Mubarak approves construction of New Church

March 20, 2010 News

20/03/2010 By: Amr Bayoumi President Hosni Mubarak issued a decree this morning which allows Christians to construct an Orthodox church in 15 May City in Helwan. The church is happy about the decision and wishes the President a speedy recovery, said Tharwat Bassily, deputy director of the Coptic Orthodox Community Council. “The state had approved [...]

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Address of Metropolitan Volodymyr to the Government of Ukriane

March 20, 2010 News

In view of the discussion of the draft Taxation Code by the Ukrainian Parliament Metropolitan Volodymyr addressed the government with review of the stance of the UOC on the section of this draft law concerning identification numbers PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE YANUKOVYCH V.F.. PRIME-MINISTER OF UKRAINE AZAROV M.Y. CHAIRMAN OF VERKHOVNA RADA LYTVYN V.M.. HEADS OF [...]

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His Beatitude Volodymyr Chaired the Session of Youth Synodal Department

March 20, 2010 News

Ukrainian orthodox Church On March 16 at the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra the session of the Synodal Department of the UOC for Youth Affairs presided over by the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. Taking part in the work were also Archbishop Gurias of Zhytomyr and Novohrad-Volynskyy, deputy chairmen archimandrite Gabriel (Kryzyna) and archimandrite Jonah [...]

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ecretary for the Primate of the UOC celebrates his 33rd birthday Anniversary

March 20, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On March 18, Secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Bishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy celebrates his 33rd birthday anniversary. On his anniversary His Grace celebrated the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts in the wooden church of All Saints in the place of construction of the Cathedral of Resurrection …

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UOC Primate Conferred Church Awards on Belarus Exarchate Delegation

March 20, 2010 News

On March 18, the delegation of the Belarus Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church including Secretary of the Diocese of Misnk archpriest Nikolay Korzhych, archpriest Anatoliy Ivashchuk and Yakov Pesin visited the Holy Dormition Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and venerated its shrines. In the course of the visit to the monastery the guests called to the …

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SUMMER PROGRAMS 2010 at St Vladimir Orthodox Theological Seminary

March 20, 2010 News

Annual Summer Symposium June 10–12, 2010 “Hellenism and Orthodoxy” Hellenism hel-uh-niz-uhm–noun 1. ancient Greek culture or ideals. 2. the imitation or adoption of ancient Greek language, thought, customs, art, etc.: the Hellenism of Alexandrian Jews. 3. the characteristics of Greek culture, esp. after the time of Alexander the Great; civilization of the Hellenistic period. KEYNOTE: [...]

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SVS Press book supports prison Ministry

March 20, 2010 News

SVS Press’s endearing and best-selling title, Father Arseny: Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father (1893–1973), has provided an unexpected but vital support to prison ministry. The English and Spanish language versions of the title have been distributed to more than 15,000 inmates in U.S. prisons, through a partnership between the press and a private foundation. Since 2001, [...]

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Earthquake in Chile: “It seemed like all were Orthodox…”

March 20, 2010 News

17/3/2010 “I shall not die, but live and declare the works of the Lord” (Ps. 118:17) The Earthquake At daybreak on Saturday February 27, the city was still asleep, although you could still hear scattered sounds of music from the distance: the last of the summer celebrations, before the beginning of academic activities in schools [...]

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Holy Trinity Monastery and Seminary Mark the Second Anniversary of the Repose of Metropolitan Laurus

March 20, 2010 News

19/3/2010 Russian Church Outside Russia Two years ago, on March 16, 2008, Metropolitan Laurus, the abbot of Holy Trinity Monastery and First Hierarch of the Russian Church Outside of Russia, reposed in the Lord. To mark Tuesday’s anniversary, Archimandrite Luke, the clergy of Holy Trinity Monastery, professors and students of the Holy Trinity Seminary, and [...]

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Greece slams church with Tax

March 20, 2010 News

20/3/2010 Greece is cracking down on major cash transactions and will impose a high levy on the influential Orthodox church in a scramble to boost tax revenue in the face of a debt crisis. A new draft bill to be tabled in parliament on Tuesday imposes a 20 per cent tax on the Orthodox church’s [...]

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Tourists from Romania Flock to Bulgaria and Greece for Easter

March 20, 2010 News

19/3/2010 Over 10,000 Romanian tourists are expected to spend the upcoming Easter holidays abroad, mostly in Bulgaria and Greece, attracted by affordable prices, charter flights and hidden destinations. Bulgaria and Greece “are destinations that are close to Romania, which are attractive in terms of prices and they are also Eastern Orthodox countries,” Traian Badulescu, spokesman [...]

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