Tuesday, April 13, 2010

OBL Forum Statement on Polish Tragedy

April 13, 2010 News

13/4/2010 Respected Your Beatitude Metropolitan Sawa Your Grace Metropolitans Reverend Priest, Deacons, Nuns and dear Faithful Orthodoxy Beyond Limits Forums sent our heartfelt condolences to the entire Polish people, on the death of eminent leaders, President of Poland His Excellency Mr. Lech Kaczynski, his wife Mrs. Maria Kaczynska and other officials in the delegation, especially His Eminence [...]

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UN Family in Armenia supports tree planting Initiative

April 13, 2010 News

12/4/2010 Heads of UN Agencies, Funds and Programmes in Armenia, together with His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, representatives of the World Council of Churches Armenia Inter-Church Charitable Round Table Foundation, the Armenian Tree Project Charitable Foundation and environmental protection activists, planted trees in Etchmiadzin today on the occasion of [...]

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Catholicos to consecrate LA Armenian Cathedral this September

April 13, 2010 News

13/4/2010 Burbank, Calif. – It is with immense joy that we inform our Armenian faithful about the upcoming celebratory events dedicated to the consecration of the long-awaited Mother Cathedral of the Western Diocese in Burbank. His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians will hold his fourth blessed visit to Los Angeles [...]

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Patriarch Kiril’s Visit to Alexandria – Snaps

April 13, 2010 News

13/4/2010 The visit of the Primate of the Russian Church to the Monastery of the Moscow Patriarchate in Cairo His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets the Supreme Imam, Sheikh of the University of Al-Azhar Ahmad al-Tayyib. Visit to the Monastery of Saint George in Cairo Source:

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Archbishop Chrysostomos II heads to Brussels

April 13, 2010 News

13/4/2010 FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 13.APR.10 The Primate of the Church of Cyprus, Archbishop Chrysostomos II, departs on Tuesday for Brussels for the official opening of a Seminar entitled “Religious Freedom and Holy Sites in the Republic of Cyprus”. According to a press release by the Church of Cyprus, the Archbishop will then fly to Constantinople for [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church to cooperate with Islamic University

April 13, 2010 News

Cairo, April 13, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has agreed to set up a joint advisory body with the Al-Azhar Islamic Center in Egypt. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill offered to Al-Azhar chief Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb to set up a joint advisory body during his visit to the Al-Azhar University in Cairo on Monday, an [...]

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Vatican on Kosovo and Serbian Orthodox Church

April 13, 2010 News

13/4/2010 Cardinal Walter Kasper, who is a member of the Pontifical Council, said that the Vatican had not recognised Kosovo’s independence out of consideration for the Serbian Orthodox Church, SPC. In an interview with the Catholic news agency Kathpress, Kapser said that “We, of course, know that Kosovo is a heavy wound and pain for [...]

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