Sunday, June 6, 2010

Demise of Dr. P. A. Jacob

June 6, 2010 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India Bar E’to M’haimno Commander Dr. P. A. Jacob’s loyalty to the Holy Church and Antioch was unchallengeable : His Holiness Patriarch Chev. P. A. Jacob’s untimely demise is a loss for the church and society, said His Beatitude Catholicos Baselios Thomas I Dr. P. A Jacob’s love for the church [...]

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Maathukutty Ashan, a prominent personality in the field of ‘Parichamuttu kali’ Felicitated

June 6, 2010 News

4/6/2010 Syrian Orthodox Church in India CHENGAMANAD: Mathukutty Asan, a prominent figure in Parichamuttu kali was given a warm reception at Thuruthisserry on June 04, Friday. His Grace Mor Athanasius Elias felicitated him by presenting a sword. Ashan was honoured by the Kerala Sangeetha Nataka Academy Award in 2005. Learn More About Parichamuttu Kali here [...]

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Delegates from Germany Visisted His Holiness

June 6, 2010 News

Delegates from Germany including metropolitans visited His Holiness at Patriarchal Monastery Syrian Orthodox Church MA`ARAT SAYYIDNAYA, DAMASCUS: Patriarch H.H Ignatius Zakka I Iwas met the delegates which includes bishops, from the patriarchal vicariate of Germany. The delegation includes Archbishop Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim (Aleppo), Mor Clemis Daniel Kourieh (Beirut, Lebanon), Dr. Mor Yulius Hanna Aydin [...]

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His Excellency Walter Hagg, The Austrian Ambassador to Ireland visits H.E Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim at Aleppo

June 6, 2010 News

Syrian Orthodox Church ALEPPO, SYRIA: His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador in Ireland, Mr. Walter Hagg visited His Eminence Mor Gregorios Youhanna Ibrahim, Archbishop of Aleppo and Environs at the office of Archbishop at Aleppo on May 30, Sunday. Mr. Hagg was accompanied by his wife, who worked in Pro Oreinte and represented Catholic Church in [...]

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Feast of St. Gregory the Illuminator’s deliverance from the Pit

June 6, 2010 News

Today (6/6/2010) marks the day when in the year 301 AD, the deliverance of St. Gregory the Illuminator from the pit gave start to the “Great Conversion” of Armenia to the Christianity. Following the martyrdom of the Christian nuns, led by St. Hripsime and St. Gayane, upon the order of the Armenian pagan King Tiridates, [...]

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Bishop killed in Turkey

June 6, 2010 News

ISTANBUL (Turkey) – A CATHOLIC bishop was stabbed to death in his home in the Turkish province of Hatay, the state-run Anatolian news agency said. Luigi Padovese, who served in a diocese in the town of Iskenderun near the Biblical town of Antioch, was killed at his home, the agency said, without providing further details. [...]

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Muslim Mob Attacks Christian Family in Egypt

June 6, 2010 News

2/6/2010 Washington — International Christian Concern (ICC) has been informed that a group of Muslims attacked the home of an Egyptian Coptic family over a minor unresolved dispute. On May 29, Nabil Shawky and another Christian were standing in line for a government food card issued to lower income families in the village of Kom [...]

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Decision on Protosyngellos Simeon Vilovski

June 6, 2010 News

3/6/2010 Protosyngellos Simeon Vilovski deprived of the monastic status and office and excluded from the Church Community Serbian Orthodox Church The Church Court of the Diocese of Budimlje-Niksic on its session on May 22 in Berane reached a verdict by which protosyngellos Simeon (Vilovski), ex-head of the monastery of Banjska, was deprived of the office [...]

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Chair of the UOC Synodal Military Department greeted frontier guards on their Professional Holiday

June 6, 2010 News

Address by the Chairman of the Synodal Department of the UOC for Relations with Armed Forces and Other Military Agencies of Ukraine Archbishop of Lviv and Halych Augustine on the occasion of the Frontier Guards’ Day CHAIR OF THE STATE FRONTIER SERVICE OF UKRAINE GENERAL OF THE ARMY OF UKRAINE LYTVYN MYKOLA MYKHAILOVYCH Honorable Mykola [...]

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Festival of Children’s Creative Art “Children in Lavra” Held in Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra

June 6, 2010 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 29, on the occasion of the Children’s Protection Day in the territory of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra with the blessing of His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr the Second Festival of Children’s Creative Art “Children in Lavra” was held, organized by the international charitable foundation “Sonyashnyk” together with creative association “Detvora”. Second year [...]

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2010 Mission Team of Students Leaves for the Annual Trip to Ukrainian Orphanages

June 6, 2010 News

UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA CONSISTORY OFFICE OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULT MINISTRY The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA in conjunction with Children of Chornobyl Relief and Development Fund has commissioned a team of eight college age students-missionaries under the leadership of His Grace Bishop Daniel, the Ruling Hierarch of the Western Eparchy [...]

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In Memoriam: Ms. Mary [Masha] Troubetzkoy

June 6, 2010 News

06/04/2010 Orthodox Church in America SEA CLIFF, NY [OCA] — Ms. Mary [Masha] Troubetzskoy fell alseep in the Lord on the afternoon of Friday, June 4, 2010 after a brief illness. The daughter of the late Serge Troubetzkoy, who for years served the Orthodox Church in America as archivist and in other positions, Masha served [...]

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Metropolitan Jonah expresses support for Orthodox Christian Fellowship campus, national Initiatives Orthodox Church in America

June 6, 2010 News

Orthodox Church in America SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, met with Father Mark Leondis, Chair of the Orthodox Christian Fellowship Board of Directors and OCF Interim Executive Director, at the Chancery here Thursday, June 3, 2010. Also present for the meeting was Protodeacon Joseph Matusiak, who represents the Orthodox Church in America [...]

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Message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on the Sunday of the Parents and Children

June 6, 2010 News

Message of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel on the Sunday of the Parents and Children in the Romanian Orthodox Church, 6 June 2010 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: During the working session of 25 – 26 February 2009, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church decided that the first Sunday after [...]

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The Patriarch Of Romania Received The President Of Georgia At Antim Monastery

June 6, 2010 News

Romanian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church received His Excellency, Mr. Mihail Saakashvili, President of Georgia, on a visit, at Antim Monastery. Besides His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, also present was His Grace Varlaam Ploieşteanul, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, together with the monks of the Antim Monastery. As Trinitas Radio [...]

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Brotherhood Members Visit Yerablur and the Armenian Genocide Memorial

June 6, 2010 News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin On June 3, the members of the Brotherhood of Holy Etchmiadzin, having gathered together in Armenia for the 2010 Conference, visited the Yerablur National Cemetery and the Tsitsernakaberd Memorial to the Armenian Genocide to pay their respects and offer prayers in memory of all those who sacrificed and gave their [...]

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