February 2011

Archon Tribute Dinner honors Ambassador Kaskarelis of Greece

February 26, 2011 News

New York, NY 2/25/2011 His Excellency Vassilis Kaskarelis, Ambassador of Greece to the United States was honored for his extraordinary support of religious freedom for the Ecumenical Patriarchate by the Order of Saint Andrew. The event was held on Thursday, February 17, 2011, at the Carlyle Hotel in New York and hosted by National Vice [...]

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Pastoral circle at the Patriarchal Palace about the importance of Family Priest

February 26, 2011 News

26-02-2011 Pastoral circle of Deanery III Capital took place in “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna of the Patriarchal Palace, chaired by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. The theme of pastoral circle was: “The Involvement of the Priest’s Wife in the Parish Life”. His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel addressed all those present a blessing [...]

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Message of Great Lent from H. H Ignatius Zakka I

February 26, 2011 Featured News

26/2/2011 Message of Great Lent 2011 from H. H Ignatius Zakka 1st, Patriarch of Universal Syrian Orthodox Church. Click here to Download PDF File in English. Source:

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Commemoration day of Pontiff St. Sahak Partev

February 26, 2011 News

26/2/2011 On 26th February the Armenian Apostolic church commemorates the Pontiff St. Sahak Partev day. Pontiff St. Sahak Partev was the elder son of Catholicos St. Nersess the Great, and the last Catholicos of the Armenian Church who descended from the lineage of St. Gregory the Illuminator. He became Catholicos of All Armenians in 387 [...]

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His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr consecrated St Olga’s Church in Kyiv

February 26, 2011 News

On February 24 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine performed the rite of consecration of St Olga’s Church in Kyiv (Verbytskogo str , 3-г). Concelebrating to His Beatitude were: Secretary for the Primate of the UOC archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy, Secretary of the Kyiv Metropolis [...]

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The Future of the Past: Toward the Preservation of Armenian Manuscripts

February 26, 2011 Featured News

BY TAMAR BOYADJIAN 25/2/2011 On January 19, 2011, the University of California, Los Angeles hosted a lecture by UC Davis Art History Professor Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh, entitled “Heritage in Conflict: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript.” Watenpaugh’s lecture focused on the conflict surrounding the seven detached leaves of Canon Tables belonging to the Zeytʿun [...]

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Middle East Churches Need To Work Together For Peace – Archbishop

February 26, 2011 News

22/2/2011 Churches in the Middle East must work together to overcome the problems facing the region in order that “peace can prevail,” Archbishop Chrysostomos of Cyprus said in an address on 18 February at an extraordinary meeting in Cyprus of the Executive Committee of the Middle East Council of Churches. “We believe strongly that the [...]

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FROM DIALOGUE ON PRECEPTS TO DIALOGUE OF LIFE” HIS HOLINESS ARAM I AT GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY, DOHA CAMPUS

February 26, 2011 Featured News

02/23/2011 On Wednesday 23 February, Catholicos Aram I lectured at the Georgetown University campus in Doha on the topic “The Response of Religions to Current Issues and Challenges.” In his lecture he spoke of how religion, when it moves from the private to the public sphere, shapes people’s self-understanding. With this changing perspective, he …

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I MEETS WITH THE EMIR OF THE STATE OF QATAR HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL THANI

February 26, 2011 News

02/23/2011 On 23 February 2011, His Holiness Aram I met with the Emir. Also attending the meeting were: Vice-Prime Minister Abdullah Attieh of Qatar, the members of the delegation of the Catholicos – Bishop Shahe Panossian, MP. Hagop Pakradouni and Rev. Mesrob Sarkissian – and the Lebanese Ambassador to Qatar, Hassan Saad. The Catholicos …

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Ukraine to host International Easter Assembly

February 26, 2011 News

21-02-2011 It will be the Third International Easter Assembly, which will take place during the Easter days in the spring of 2011.This is a joint project of the National Academy of Music named after Tchaikovsky (Kyiv) and the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The best choirs from Russia, Belarus, Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, Georgia, as well as Ukrainian [...]

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Holy Synod Announces Changes

February 26, 2011 News

02/25/2011 Orthodox Church in America SYOSSET, NY [OCA] — From February 22-24, 2011, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America participated in a retreat in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His Beatitude, Metropolitan JONAH led the hierarchs in a review of matters affecting the life of the Orthodox Church in America, including [...]

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‘Patriarch’s palace’ is just a spiritual centre, Orthodox Church Says

February 26, 2011 News

By Andy Potts 25/02/2011 A so-called palace on the Black Sea coast is indeed the work of the Russian Orthodox Church – but the building should not be branded a pleasant retreat for the patriarch. The shoreline in the popular resort region has come under fierce online scrutiny following US reports in December – swiftly [...]

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Antiochian Village Concludes Busy Winter Season

February 25, 2011 News

25/2/2011 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America Wrapping up a busy schedule of winter events, Antiochian Village served as the host for the “Men in Black” Clergy Appreciation Luncheon on February 22. The Village’s first event was the January winter camp session. These two events bookmarked several key conferences and meetings which took place [...]

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Serbian Patriarchs Visit to USA- Snaps

February 25, 2011 Featured News

The Serbian Patriarch His Holiness Irinej is on a visit to Metropolitanate of Libertville-Chicago from February 16 to March 1, 2011. Source:

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Iraqi church continues its work despite flight and Threats

February 25, 2011 News

24/2/2011 Declarations of “mission accomplished” and US troop withdrawals notwithstanding, Iraqi Christians continue to flee because their safety cannot be guaranteed and there is little hope their lives will improve soon, six Iraqi church leaders said during the recently ended meeting of the World Council of Churches Central Committee – writes Jerry L. Van Marter. [...]

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The Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission

February 24, 2011 Featured News

24/2/2011 On 22 February 2011, the Inter-Orthodox Preparatory Commission, convened to consider the agenda of the Pan-Orthodox Council, began its work at the Orthodox Centre of the Patriarchate of Constantinople in Chambesy, Switzerland. The last session took place in December 2009. The results of the Commission’s work should be submitted to the 5th Pan-Orthodox Pre-Council [...]

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Another gross example of the repression of Christianity in Turkey

February 24, 2011 Featured News

Why are we still seriously considering Turkish membership of the EU? By William Oddie 24/2/2011 Yet more evidence has emerged that Turkey’s proposed membership of the EU should be definitively ruled out on the grounds of the incompatibility of the proposed partners. To put it simply, despite the increasingly secular nature of contemporary Europe and [...]

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Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem content with Abbas’ Statement

February 24, 2011 Featured News

18/2/2011 The Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem is pleased with the statement of Mahmoud Abbas saying the Palestinian administration considers the Armenian Quarter a part of Eastern Jerusalem, said patriarchate’s representative. “We do not want the Armenian Quarter to be divided into Jewish and Palestinian. We find important that our quarter should not be separated and [...]

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Treasure of a different kind for Armenian Preschoolers

February 24, 2011 News

22/2/2011 In Armenia, the world’s oldest Christian, Orthodox Apostolic nation, a book for preschoolers called ‘My treasury’ was recently launched at the Christian Education Center of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin, with World Vision’s support. While ‘My treasury’, shares the biblical lessons and values reflected in the existing country-wide school curriculum on ‘History of Religion [...]

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Who are Abkhazians trying to Deceive?

February 24, 2011 News

24/02/2011 Irakli Tskitishvili Experts’ Club The Georgian side is concerned about the state of the Orthodox Church in Ilori, in the Ochamchire district and is asking to save the cultural monument. This was discussed at the meeting in Gali on 22 February in the framework of Incident Prevention and Response Mechanisms, which is based on [...]

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Egypt: priest’s murder sparks Christians’ Fears

February 24, 2011 News

By Martin Barillas 24/2/2011 “It seems that the issue goes back to two years ago, when a Coptic Orthodox faithful committed an act of sacrilege against Islam, provoking the anger of Muslims. This person then said that it was his parish priest, Fr Daoud Boutros, who incited him to commit the act. Since then there [...]

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Anger over court’s decision to acquit suspects in Coptic killing Case

February 24, 2011 Featured News

By Brian Hutt 23/2/2011 Six Christians were killed in January 2010 as they left their church in Nag Hammadi after celebrating Christmas Eve mass. The church’s Muslim security guard was also killed in the attack. In a hearing on Monday, a state security court in Qena upheld the death sentence handed to chief suspect Mohamed [...]

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Monastery says six injured in army’s removal of its illegal Wall

February 24, 2011 Featured News

24/02/2011 Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has denounced the army’s removal of a wall enclosing a desert monastery, which accused the army of “excessive violence” that injured six staff. The army removed the wall because the monastery had not obtained a license to build it, as required by Egyptian law. In a statement on Thursday, the [...]

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Heritage-listed churches oppose towering Development

February 24, 2011 News

24/2/2011 KANGAROO POINT: A 20-STOREY residential building will tower over Australia’s oldest Russian Orthodox Church in Kangaroo Point, after Brisbane City Council gave the 206-unit development preliminary approval. The heritage-listed Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St Nicholas, built in 1923, is adjacent to the empty block on Vulture St. Father Deacon Kon Semovskih said the parish [...]

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Jamaica Plain group asks Orthodox archbishop to save land overlooking Jamaica Pond

February 24, 2011 Featured News

By Joseph Leahy, Globe Correspondent A group of Jamaica Plain residents is reaching out to the Archbishop of Constantinople, the official head of the Eastern Orthodox Church based in Istanbul, in an effort to save a wooded hill overlooking Jamaica Pond from development. The Community Caring Institute (CCI) has instigated a letter-writing campaign beseeching Ecumenical [...]

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