Saturday, July 17, 2010

Van to Host Armenian ‘Pilgrimage’ to Akhtamar Church in September

July 17, 2010 News

V AN, Turkey (Anatolian News Agency)–Residents of the eastern Turkish province of Van will host Armenians arriving in the city for a worship service being conducted on September 19 at the newly renovated Holy Cross Church on the island of Akhtamar, local news outlets reported. The number of Armenian guests in the province, once the [...]

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Turkish Church defaced with Islamist Graffiti

July 17, 2010 News

14/7/2010 Mehmet Ali Bulun MARDİN – RADİKAL Police have started an investigation after a suspected group of people defaced the façade of the 1,700-year-old Mor Jacob Syriac Orthodox Church in Nusaybin, in the southeastern province of Mardin, with pro-Islamic slogans. The offenders allegedly defaced the stone walls of the church on Monday with various slogans, [...]

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Armenian historian blames Georgian authorities for ‘privatizing’ Churches

July 17, 2010 News

15/7/2010 Identity crisis?: Armenian historian blames Georgian authorities for ‘privatizing’ churches By GAYANE ABRAHAMYAN ArmeniaNow reporter An Armenian historian and researcher has warned that another Armenian church in Georgia is being Georgianized – St. Gevorg of Mughni Church in Tbilisi, which collapsed last year, and which is currently being reconstructed through the efforts of Georgian [...]

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Liturgy allows Ethiopian community to come Together

July 17, 2010 News

By: Catherine Batruni 15/7/2010 BEIRUT: Lebanon is widely known to be home to 18 official religious sects, but with the steadily growing numbers of foreign workers in the country, several other religions and sects now have a critical mass, requiring places to come together for worship and fellowship. The current center of the Ethiopian Orthodox [...]

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Turkey constructs special boats for Armenian religious Liturgy in Akdamar

July 17, 2010 News

14/7/2010 Turkey constructs special boats for a religious liturgy to take place in an Armenian church on Akdamar Island in Van, local ship constructer said. Turkey constructs special boats for a religious mass to take place in an Armenian church on Akdamar Island in the eastern province of Van, a local ship constructer said on [...]

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China’s Armenian community celebrates baptism of new Arrivals

July 17, 2010 News

16/7/2010 HONG KONG – On July 9th, 2010, with the blessings of His Holiness Karekin II Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians, the Armenian Community of China celebrated the first Armenian baptism on Chinese soil in recent history. Very Rev. Father Khoren Hovhannisyan, Pastor of Armenians in India was specially flown to China to [...]

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Church: No full burial service for Romanian Singer

July 17, 2010 News

17/7/2010 (AP) BUCHAREST, Romania — The Romanian Orthodox Church said Friday as thousands mourned the death of a popular singer that it would not give her a full burial service because she committed suicide. A single priest will perform a simple service for Madalina Manole in a church courtyard, the church said, because it considers [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Honor St Marina

July 17, 2010 News

17/7/2010 The Orthodox world, including the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, mark Saturday the Day of Saint Marina. According to the Golden Legend, she was a native of Antioch, daughter of a pagan priest named Aedesius. Marina was scorned by her father for her Christian faith, and lived in the country with a foster-mother keeping sheep. Olybrius, [...]

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