Sunday, March 6, 2011

Milwaukee talk gives the history behind Avarayr

March 6, 2011 Featured News

By David Luhrssen 5/3/2011 Milwaukee, – Vartanants, commemorating the Armenian defeat by Persia at the Battle of Avarayr (AD 451), is familiar to all Armenians. Less well known than the martyrdom of St. Vartan Mamigonian and his companions in the struggle for religious freedom is the road that led to Avarayr and the decades-long conflict [...]

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Turkish culture minister visits Armenian Church

March 6, 2011 News

6/3/2011 Turkish Culture and Tourism Minister Ertugrul Gunay paid a working visit to the city of Nigde where he visited an Armenian church. In the course of his visit Gunay met with Nigde’s Mayor and visited abandoned Armenian and Greek churches, Turkish Dikkathaber website reports. He stressed importance of monuments’ restoration, adding it would contribute [...]

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The US Visit of His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia Comes to an End

March 6, 2011 News

2/3/2011 On February 28, 2011, after praying at Divine Liturgy at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady “of the Sign” at the residence of His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Lands and Slovakia visited the New York headquarters of the [...]

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Second National Conference for Environmental Issues held at Damascus

March 6, 2011 News

6/3/2011 DAMASCUS: The Second national conference for Environmental Issues held at Damascus. Hon. Minister for Waqf, His Excellency Dr. Muhammed Abdul Sattar inaugurated the conference. He stressed the need and importance of preserving the environment in context of global warming and other environmental issues. Metropolitan of Patriarchal Office, His Eminence Mor Dionysius Youhanon Kawaq attended [...]

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Patriarch’s Encyclical on our Entry into Great Lent

March 6, 2011 Featured News

+ BARTHOLOMEW By God’s Mercy Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome And Ecumenical Patriarch To the Plenitude of the Church Grace and Peace from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ With our Prayer, Blessing and Forgiveness Prot. No. 195 Beloved brothers and children in the Lord, “The arena of the virtues has opened; those who desire to [...]

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‘Will engage Gujarat’s youth in community service’: Bishop Yulios

March 6, 2011 News

By Sabu Cherian | Place: Ahmedabad | Agency: DNA 5/3/2011 Indian Orthodox Church The composed look on his bespectacled face was suggestive of what he was going through. Beneath his looks, in the inner recesses of his heart, were feelings of immense joy – the joy of being enthroned as the bishop of the newly-formed [...]

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Serbian official: Bishop must apologize for making anti-gay remarks after Parade

March 6, 2011 Featured News

By The Associated Press (CP) 6/3/2011 A Serbian human rights official said Saturday a hardline Orthodox Church bishop must publicly apologize for the anti-gay remarks he made after last year’s pride march that erupted in violence. Bishop Amfilohije violated Serbia’s anti-discrimination laws when he criticized gays in a speech, Commissioner for Equality Nevena Petrusic said. [...]

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