Thursday, June 17, 2010

Novella’s publication provokes culture war in Georgia

June 17, 2010 News

17/6/2010 An irreverent short novel in Tbilisi has provoked a culture war that has Georgians fighting over the limits of individual freedom. The work, titled Saidumlo Siroba, or Holy Crap, takes swipes at the Georgian Orthodox Church, Georgian patriotism and Georgian mothers. The book’s attack on religion and nationalism, often viewed as overlapping concepts in [...]

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Court counters prevailing 1920s deep state mentality in Orphanage Ruling

June 17, 2010 News

17/6/2010 YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN İSTANBUL The İstanbul-based Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate has won yet another case at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) after the court ordered the Turkish government to return a historic Orthodox orphanage to the patriarchate and pay 26,000 euros for both non-pecuniary damages, costs and expenses. The patriarchate’s lawyer, Kezban [...]

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Turkey ordered to reregister historic Orthodox Orphanage

June 17, 2010 News

16/6/2010 TODAY’S ZAMAN ANKARA The top European court of human rights has ordered the Turkish government to reregister a historic Orthodox orphanage to the İstanbul-based Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and also told Ankara to pay 26,000 euros in total to the patriarchate for both non-pecuniary damages and costs and expenses. In its ruling issued on [...]

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Monastery of the Transfiguration to host youth retreat Saturday, June 26

June 17, 2010 News

06/14/2010 Orthodox Church in America ELLWOOD CITY, PA [OCA] — His Grace, Bishop Melchisedek of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania will be the keynote speaker at the annual youth retreat hosted by the sisterhood of the Monastery of the Transfiguration here Saturday, June 26, 2010. Co-sponsored by the Diocese of Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania, the retreat [...]

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Rose Bay residents appalled by plan to knock down Old Churches

June 17, 2010 News

17/6/2010 By: Jennifer Bennett New South Wales – Australia Rose Bay residents appalled by plan to knock down old churches HERITAGE campaigners are vowing to fight a plan by the Greek Orthodox Church to bulldoze three of its Rose Bay properties. The buildings, including two deconsecrated churches, will make way for low-rise aged-care apartments. Woollahra [...]

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Moldovan Premier Criticizes ‘Church Involvement’ In Politics

June 17, 2010 News

16/6/2010 CHISINAU — Moldova’s pro-Western Prime Minister Vlad Filat today warned the country’s pro-Russian Orthodox Church to stay out of politics, saying the church should not support a single political force, RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service reports. That warning may have been occasioned by a statement by former Defense Minister Valeriu Pasat, who said the study of [...]

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Pope to file lawsuit against second marriage Verdict

June 17, 2010 News

17/6/2010 Cairo Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria has decided to file a lawsuite before the Higher Administrative Court against its verdict obliging the church to allow Coptic divorcees to remarry. Ramses al-Naggar, Lawyer for the Orthodox Church, said that Patriarch of Saint Mark Diocese Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria has assigned the [...]

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ST. NERSĒS THE GRACIOUS AND CHURCH UNITY

June 17, 2010 News

ST. NERSĒS THE GRACIOUS AND CHURCH UNITY – A New book in English by His Holiness Aram I Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia Because of its unique political, cultural and ethnic environment, the Cilician period of Armenian history presented the Armenian people with new horizons, perspectives, opportunities and concerns. The impact of this pluralist environment can [...]

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BOOK LAUNCH DEDICATED TO ARMENIAN GENOCIDE IN ARABIC

June 17, 2010 News

06/11/2010 The Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia Friday 11 June 2010, under the auspices of His Holiness Aram I, the book launch on Armenian Genocide in Arabic took place in the presence of a large audience. His Grace Bishop Norayr Achekian welcomed the guests and reminded them of the Catholicosate of Cilicia’s commitment to historical truth [...]

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Annual exhibition of works of students of the Academy

June 17, 2010 News

Serbian Orthodox Church Annual exhibition of works of students of the Academy – Higher school of the SOC for arts and conservation formally Opened With the blessing and on behalf of His Holiness IRINEJ, Serbian Patriarch, His Grace Bishop Atanasije, Vicar of Patriarch, opened on June, 15 2010 in the Academy- Higher School of the [...]

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On the occasion of misstatements on alleged mass exodus of monks from Kosovo and Metohija

June 17, 2010 News

Serbian Orthodox Church On the occasion of misstatements on alleged mass exodus of monks from Kosovo and Metohija On the occasion of false and partly malicious statements in some media that an alleged mass exodus of the monks from the Diocese of Raska-Prizren and Kosovo-Metohija had happened it is very important that the public should [...]

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Two Years Since The Launching Of The Basilica News Agency Of The Romanian Patriarchate

June 17, 2010 News

Basilica News Agency celebrates today two years since launching. In 2008, at the feast of the Holy Trinity, Basilica News Agency began its activity. After the celebration of the Divine Liturgy by His Grace Ciprian Câmpineanul, Assistant Bishop to the Patriarch, at the church of Saint Spiridon the New, patriarchal chapel, a ceremony dedicated to [...]

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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel: “The Material Things Are Consecrated In Our Relation With God-The-Creator”

June 17, 2010 News

Romanian Orthodox Church On the third Sunday after the Pentecost, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, participated in the Divine Liturgy in the chapel of “Saint George the Enlightener”, in the Patriarchal Residence – informs ‘Lumina Newspaper’. To end with the service, His Beatitude delivered a sermon on the meaning of the [...]

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55th birthday of Moscow Patriarchate’s Chancellor is celebrated in Mordovia

June 17, 2010 News

On 12-13 June 2010, the Saransk and Mordovia diocese celebrated the 55th birthday of the ruling hierarch – Metropolitan Varsonofiy of Saransk and Mordovia, Chancellor of the Moscow Patriarchate. Taking part in the celebration were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations; Archbishop Prokl of Simbirsk and Melekess; [...]

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Russian Church urges not to hurry confirming Identification

June 17, 2010 News

Russian Church urges not to hurry confirming identification of Crown Prince Alexey and Grand Princess Mary’s probable Remnants Moscow, June 16, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church urges not to hurry to officially confirm identification of remnants found in 2007 not far from Yekaterinburg, which, according to investigators, belong to Nicholas II’s children. “I believe [...]

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Fund for Assistance – 2009 Annual Report

June 17, 2010 News

Russian Church Outside Russia The Fund for Assistance has published its 2009 Annual Report Click here to Download Source:

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Boston’s Holy Trinity Cathedral Celebrates Centennial

June 17, 2010 News

Orthodox Church in America BOSTON, MA [OCA] — On the weekend of the Great Feast of Pentecost — May 22-23, 2010 — the faithful of Holy Trinity Cathedral here celebrated their patronal feast and centennial year. His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, concelebrated the Pentecost Divine Liturgy and Kneeling Vespers with His Grace, Bishop Nikon of Boston [...]

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