Tuesday, March 22, 2011

New iPhone App from the Eastern Diocese

March 22, 2011 News
Screenshots of the Diocese’s new iPhone app, Vemkar, which is available for free download in the App Store and on iTunes.

The Armenian Apostolic Church – Eastern Diocese of America 22/3/2011 This month the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of America announced the release of Vemkar—a new mobile application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The app—available free of charge in the App Store and on iTunes—incorporates a wide range of features, including daily scripture [...]

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HOMILY of Metropolitan Elpidophoros of Proussa During his Ordination to the Episcopate

March 22, 2011 News

HOMILY Metropolitan Elpidophoros of Proussa During his Ordination to the Episcopate (Istanbul, March 20, 2011) Your All-Holiness, Your Beatitude, Your Eminences and Graces, Representatives of the Orthodox Churches, Most Reverend choir of Hierarchs, Your Excellencies Ministers, Your Excellencies Ambassadors, Honorable members of the Diplomatic Corps, Honorable Rector of the University of Thessalonika, Honorable Dean of [...]

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Armenian, Georgian spiritual leaders to meet this June

March 22, 2011 Featured News

21/3/2011 Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II will pay a visit to Georgia in early June, Director of the Holy See press service Vahram Melikyan told Armenian News- NEWS.am. Activities of Georgian diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church and contacts with Georgian church are on the agenda. His Holiness will discuss with head of the [...]

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Funeral of Metropolitan Nicholas

March 22, 2011 News

The American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese of the USA Funeral of Metropolitan Nicholas: Monday March 21, 2011 His Eminence, Archbishop Demetrios of America presided over the final Panachida and Committal Services for Metropolitan Nicholas. Following the Committal Service at St. John the Baptist Paris Cemetery, a funeral luncheon took place at the Forge Restaurant Source:

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Russia: Arkhangelsk, Orthodox Church against sects, including Yoga

March 22, 2011 News

21/3/2011 Asia News Local authorities write to eparchy to invite them to keep “destructive cults” such as Jehovah’s Witnesses away from schools. But yoga also presents problem for religious leaders, a practice that relies on “recruitment” in public spaces. Moscow – The authorities in Arkhangelsk have written to the local Russian Orthodox Church leaders to [...]

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Coptic Pope suggests addition to Constitution

March 22, 2011 News

Emad Khalil 21/03/2011 The head of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, suggested an addition to Article 2 of the Constitution, which stipulates Islamic law as the main source of Egypt’s legislation. Shenouda asked the deputy prime minister, Yehia al-Gamal, to add a clause to the article for other non-Muslim denominations. His request came [...]

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The 2nd annual students’ conference “Students’ scholarship at a theological school” took place in Kyiv Theological Academy

March 22, 2011 News

Ukrainian Church 21/3/2011 The conference was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of repose of the greta Ukrainian poet Tarash Hryhorovych Shevchenko. This year taking part in the conference’s work are the representatives of 11 theological schools of Ukraine: the Kyiv Theological Academy, Pochayiv, Kharkiv, Volyn, Tavriya, Poltava, Odessa Theological seminaries, Chernivtsi Theological Institute and Uzhghorod [...]

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The Patriarch Of Romania: „The Deeds Of The Christian Mercy Bring Much Spiritual Healing Wherever There Is Sufferance And Loneliness”

March 22, 2011 News

On 20 March 2011, the Orthodox Church was on the 2nd Sunday, of the Lent, also called of Saint Gregory Palama. The Evangelical pericope of Mark chapter II, lines 1 – 12, relating about the healing of the weak man of Capernaum, was read in all the Orthodox churches. In the sermon delivered at the [...]

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Exhibition NOT TO FORGET for the Seventh Time

March 22, 2011 Featured News

18/3/2011 With the blessing of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, the seventh traditional exhibition of copies of icons and frescoes from Kosovo and Metohija was opened last night, on March 17, 2011 at the St. Sava’s house of the St. Sava Memorial Cathedral on Vracar. This year the copies of the frescoes of Mother of [...]

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Supreme Spiritual Council Meets in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin

March 22, 2011 Featured News

Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin From March 17 to 19, the Supreme Spiritual Council convened its regular meeting in the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin under the presidency of His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. The meeting convened with a prayer for the repose of soul of His Eminence Archbishop [...]

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METROPOLITAN GEORGE SALIBA VISITS HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

March 22, 2011 News

16/3/2011 On 16 March 2011, George Saliba, Metropolitan of Mount Lebanon visited His Holiness Aram I to transmit greeting from the Spiritual Leaders in India, and briefed him on the situation of the Oriental Orthodox church. After listening to the Metropolitan, His Holiness insisted that the priority was to safeguard the unity of the church. [...]

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