Tuesday, March 23, 2010

03/21/2010 St. Gregory the Illuminator, the founder of the Church, is the Patron Saint of the Armenian Church. His Feast, 20-21 March, is also a time of Pilgrimage to Antelias, where the relics of his right hand has been preserved over the centuries in a hand-shaped reliquary, and is exposed on that …

23/3/2010 Cyprus’ Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the head of the Greek Orthodox Church in Cyprus, crossed over into the Turkish Cypriot side of divided Nicosia (Lefkoşa) on Monday morning, walking through the Ledra Street (Lokmacı Gate) crossing, which was opened in April 2008. Chrysostomos’ first stop in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (KKTC) was the [...]

22/3/2010 The Greek government’s recently announced measures to boost tax revenue in the face of a crippling debt crisis have riled the church. Greek Orthodox Archbishop Hieronymos recently lashed out at Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, criticizing a new draft bill to be tabled in parliament next week that will impose a 20 percent tax [...]

Moscow, March 23, Interfax Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk urged Lvov authorities to help the Lvov Diocese of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church get a cathedral. At the meeting with head of the Lvov regional administration Nikolay Kmit Metropolitan Hilarion expressed his indignation with the fact that [...]