30/4/2010
Dear Readers
We are excited to share with you our 2009 Annual Report. We have had an amazing and blessed first year. Thank you so much for making FOCUS North America a living reality.
In the annual report, you will find updates on our programs such as the Youth Equipped to Serve Program and our Parish [...]
30/4/2010
The British Orthodox Church have revamped its Official Website.
Click here to visit the new website
Click here to find the OBL Forum Website linked in the British Orthodox Website
OBL News Service
On its afternoon session of April 29 of this year, the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church unanimously adopted recommendations of the competent diocesan bishops and entered into dyptichs of the saints of the Orthodox Church names of the blessed repose of archimandrite Justin Popovic, geront of the monastery Celije near Valjevo [...]
29/4/2010
Memory Eternal!!!
Armenian Church – Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia
New York – His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia, His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Prelate of the Eastern United States, and the Cilician Brotherhood announce with immense sorrow the untimely passing of the Prelate of the Diocese of Aderbadagan, [...]
30/4/2010
Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II returned home from the Czech Republic last night. Numerous congregations and the highest hierarchy of the Georgian Orthodox Church met Ilia II at the Tbilisi airport.
All citizens of Georgia should take care that such a beautiful country gained its unity and peace, he said at the night service in [...]
Inter-Orthodox Relations
Patriarchate of Jerusalem and Ecumenical Patriarchate
On Saturday, April 24, 2010, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew welcomed Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem at the Phanar
Photos by:
N. Manginas
Source:
Broomall, PA
4/28/2010
The Order of Saint Andrew
The Order of Saint Andrew’s Greater Delaware Valley region will be hosting a symposium entitled, “The Great Schism and the Current Dialogue of Love and Truth” at St. Luke Greek Orthodox Church in Broomall, PA on May 8, 2010.
Dr. George E. Demacopoulos, Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Co-Founding Director [...]
23/4/2010
The Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
New York – The Holy Eparchial Synod of the Holy Archdiocese of America convened in its regular Spring Session in the Synodal Chamber of the HolyArchdiocese in New York, on April 21st and 22nd, 2010, under the chairmanship of His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios.
The Holy Eparchial Synod deliberated on the [...]
29/4/2010
OBL Forum Publication (Book) Presented to Ethiopian Orthodox Church Sunday School Library
The first publication of Orthodoxy Beyond Limits Forum was presented to the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Mahibere Kidusan Sunday School Library on 28/4/2010. Mahibre Kidusan is responsible for organising Sunday Schools in Ethiopia. The office and library is situated near to the [...]
Coptic Orthodox Church
Translated Using Google Translate Service
Coptic Orthodox Church-South of Egypt
Gathered nearly 900 people, a Muslim night of Tuesday, April 27, 2010 and assaulted the Diocese of Akhmim Saqlth at 11:45 pm and until 1:30 am Wednesday, April 28, 2010 and they threw stones at the Archbishop
Shattering some windows and the cross above the [...]
Indian Orthodox Church
HOUSTON: In a well conducted meeting at the diocesan center on Monday, April 26th, Ambassador of Haiti to the United States Mr. Raymond Alcide Joseph accepted the check for $70,000 from Alexios Mar Eusebius, Metropolitan of the Diocese of South-West America. Congresswoman Sheila Jackson-Lee and Congressman Al Green were also present on [...]
Indian Orthodox Church
Website of the Church
By:
B.J.Mathews
INDIA/KERALA/PUTHUPPALLI: Flag for the annual feast of St. George was hoisted today at St. George Orthodox Church, Puthuppalli, the Oriental Georgian Pilgrim Center. Not only Christians, but people from all religions put their faith and refuge in the intercession of St. George at Puthuppalli Church, which elders [...]
Syrian Orthodox Church
WARBURG, GERMANY: Archbishop of Aleppo, Dr. Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim visited H.E Dr. Mor Julius Hanna Aydin on April 20, Tuesday. H.E. Mor Gregorios Yohanna Ibrahim of Aleppo archdiocese in Syria has been sent as His Holiness’ emissary to meet Mor Julius Hanna Aydin. Among the bishops who visited His eminence at [...]
Armenian Church-Catholicosate of Cilicia
The 24th of April this year was the 95th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Armenians in Lebanon made a pilgrimage to Antelias and demanded that Turkey recognize the genocide.
The pilgrimage began on Friday 23 April in the morning, with the gathering in Antelias of all Armenian students in Lebanon. In the [...]
Message from Ecumenical Patriarch Secretariate in Mexico
In conformity with the canonical responsibility of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in the diaspora, and sharing the vision of His All Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch BARTHOLOMEW, the Holy Metropolis of Mexico is pleased to announce that, in an unceasing and continuing mission outreach ministry effectively being pursued by the Holy Metropolis [...]
Orthodoxy Beyond Limits Forum members write an open Letter to the Sunday School Department of the Indian(Malankara) Orthodox Church
To
His. Grace. Dr Yacob Mar Iraneus Metropolitan
President
Orthodox Syrian Sunday School Association of the East (OSSAE)
OVBS 2010- Some Reflections
We take this opportunity to congratulate the team of OVBS (Orthodox Christian Vacation Bible School) 2010 in the improvement made [...]
Homosexuality is an abomination. Purify the sanctuary of the Lord, says Monk
By David W. Virtue in Singapore
www.virtueonline.org
April 25, 2010
A Coptic Orthodox Church observer to the Fourth Global South to South Encounter ripped into the Episcopal Church, stunning some 130 archbishops, bishops, clergy and laity, urging them to say “no to ordination of homosexuals, no to [...]
04/27/2010
SOUTH CANAAN, PA [OCA] — The brotherhood of Saint Tikhon’s Monastery here recently announced the schedule of services and events for its 106th annual pilgrimage May 28-31, 2010.
A comprehensive schedule is available in PDF format at www.sttikhonsmonastery.org/files/Pilgrimage-Schedule-2010-RIGHT.pdf.
The pilgrimage opens on Friday, May 28 at 3:30 p.m. with a blessing of the well and the celebration [...]
26/4/2010
Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia
Memory Eternal!!!
On the morning of April 26, 2010, at the age of 79, His Grace Bishop Daniel of Erie, Vicar of the President of the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia for the Old Believer Community, reposed in the Lord.
In a statement published on the [...]
28/4/2010
On 25 April 1885, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople recognises the autocephaly of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The Patriarchal Synod met on 25 April 1885 took notice of the letters received from Romania and drafted the answering letters, which they sent to the country through Gheorghe Ghica, the Romanian representative in Constantinople. The Ecumenical Patriarch [...]
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