Tuesday, June 1, 2010

ElBaradei visits Church, Prays in Mosque

June 1, 2010 News

Marwan Abdel Aziz 31/5/2010 Mohamed ElBaradei, potential candidate in next year’s presidential elections, went to the Old Cairo district where he visited the historic hanging church, the Coptic museum and a Jewish synagogue, where he wrote in the guest book: “These holy places embody religious tolerance in Egypt; I hope that we all live together [...]

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Serbian-language Church gets new Home

June 1, 2010 News

By: Nancy McLaughlin Staff Writer 1/6/2010 Three Belgrade artists made the international flight to Kernersville to glue canvas paintings of their saints to the wall of the St. Basil of Ostrog Serbian Orthodox Church, which was consecrated this past weekend. The building on Ogden School Road in Kernersville is one of the few Byzantine-style churches [...]

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Church of the Holy Trinity in Sydney declared a Landmark

June 1, 2010 News

1/6/2010 A years long effort by Greek-Australian officials s come to a positive end as the first Greek Orthodox Church built in Australia, and the southern hemisphere, has been declared a historical monument and will now be included in the New South Wales Heritage Council. The recognition was made on May 28th, one day before [...]

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Icons of Chinese Martyrs in Birobidzhan were delivered from Mt Athos

June 1, 2010 News

MAY – 2010 Chinese Orthodox Church In Annunciation cathedral in the city of Birobidzhan were delivered icons of the 222 Holy Chinese Martyrs and Hieromartyr Mitrophan of Beijing, executed on the Holy Mount Athos (Greece) by monks of the holy Kelii of Holy Archangels. The first Chinese priest Mitrofan (Ji Chong), and baptized Orthodox Chinese [...]

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Orthodox Georgians mark the Day of Saint Nino

June 1, 2010 News

2010.06.01 Georgian Apostolic Orthodox Church marks the day of Saint Nino on June 1. Georgian Catholicos Patriarch held holy service in the Sioni Cathedral today, where the Holy Cross of Saint Nino will be taken out of the church for worship. The preachment of Christianity turned out fruitful in his life and the King of [...]

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Former Georgian president’s jailed son visited by Church Primate

June 1, 2010 News

Tbilisi, June 1, Interfax – The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II, has visited Tsotne Gamsakhurdia, the incarcerated son of first post-Soviet Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia, a lawyer said. Ilia II most likely asked Tsotne Gamsakhurdia to stop the hunger strike that the convict began this month in protest against prison inmates [...]

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Pope Shenouda rejects court decision permitting divorcees to Remarry

June 1, 2010 News

01/06/2010 Pope Shenouda III, patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church, said he absolutely rejects a recent ruling by the Administrative Court obliging the church to grant divorcees permits to remarry. “We are only bound by the Holy Bible,” said Shenouda during his biweekly sermon in Alexandria yesterday. Shenouda further threatened to defrock any priest who [...]

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The deadline for registration is Extended

June 1, 2010 News

Maria Nalewajko 28.05.2010 We would like to inform you that the deadline for the registration to our OrthPhoto workshop is extended. The ultimate deadline is 20th June. We invite you to come to our workshop! Please register and come to Supraśl! For more information please visit the workshop website: www.workshop.orthphoto.net

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