Tuesday, April 12, 2011

Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer (2011)

April 12, 2011 Featured News

By ANDY WEBSTER 7/4/2011 MOVIE REVIEW Faces of monastic Christianity are examined at what seems like considerable length in “Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer,” a documentary seeking to shed a light on the beliefs and practices of monks living in cloistered solitude. Leading this spiritual journey are two educators: the Rev. Dr. John A. McGuckin, [...]

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NEW ROMANIAN CHURCH NEARS COMPLETION

April 12, 2011 News

Mark Nolan 2011-04-10 The Romanian Orthodox parish of Señor de Roquetas will soon be able to worship in a new church, unlike any other seen before in the history of Almería. The work is happening with the cooperation of the Bishop of Almería, with whom the Orthodox parish maintains excellent relations since he began his [...]

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Serbia and Indonesia successfully stage inter-religious Dialogue

April 12, 2011 News

11/4/2011 The inter-religious dialogue held from April 7 to 9 gathered several dozen high officials of religious communities, theologians and representatives of Serbia’s civil societies of various confessions. The Association of Serbian-Indonesian Friendship Nusantara welcomed on Sunday the successful staging of the inter-religious dialogue between Serbia and Indonesia, during which participants discussed religious issues on [...]

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Believers to pray for dead and wounded in terror act in all Byelorussian Churches

April 12, 2011 News

Minsk, April 12, Interfax – Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Byelorussia expressed condolence to the families of the dead and to all Byelorussian people in relation with the terror act in metro. “Bewilderment and sorrow for innocent bloodshed grip all hearts with the news about the victims of explosion in the Minsk metro. Peaceful citizens [...]

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Turkey’s Red Crescent Assists Greek Orthodox Patriarchate

April 12, 2011 News

By Apostolos Papapostolou 12/4/2011 Turkish Red Crescent extended on Tuesday 8 tons of food stuffs, as well as stationary and office supplies and toys to children at the nursery of the Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, as Anatolia news agency reports. Tekin Kucukali, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent, said pain had no language, religion [...]

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7th anniversary of OrthPhoto.net

April 12, 2011 Featured News

Karina Michaluk 11.04.2011 Polish Orthodox Church 10 April 2004, Holy Saturday, the world’s only Orthodox community service OrthPhoto.net was launched. OrthPhoto.net is owned by OrthNet association who is also the owner of Cerkiew.pl. During 7 years of service, more than 3.8 thousand members were published 52 thousand photos. OrthPhoto.net notes about 1000 visits a day. [...]

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Missing: Mariusz Nikiciuk

April 12, 2011 News

06.04.2011 Mariusz Nikiciuk, one of the creators of website cerkiew.pl and president of Orthodox Initiative OrthNet, is missing. He left work at Grabówka on Tuesday afternoon. There was no contact with him since that day. Mariusz’s family and friends are searching him. They informed the police about the disappearance and the police has also started [...]

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Matthew Karanian offers glimpse of Jerusalem Armenians

April 12, 2011 News

11/4/2011 FRESNO – A capacity crowd of 120 people attended a lecture and slide show about the Armenians of Jerusalem at California State University, Fresno, on March 30. Matthew Karanian, a lawyer in Pasadena, Calif., and the author of several books about Armenia, told the audience that the Armenians of Jerusalem form one of the [...]

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Albanian faiths blend together after Hard Times

April 12, 2011 News

12/4/2011 LAC, Albania: On an Albanian spring day, dozens of Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians toil together up a steep, winding slope to St Anthony’s Church — different faiths all hoping for a miracle. Some of the pilgrims heading up the stony path to the imposing church are barefoot and wedge their feet into cracks [...]

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Armenian church of Switzerland closed its Doors

April 12, 2011 News

11/4/2011 Doors of the Armenian Church in Geneva were closed. The Church Council decided to close the church on Sunday. However, a reliable source told Armenian News-NEWS.am, church closed its doors not to let in the believers and a delegation from Etchmiadzin by Fr. Abel Manoukian. Earlier the Armenian Apostolic Church Council of Switzerland has [...]

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Serb nuns learn language of Albanian Muslims

April 12, 2011 Featured News

11/4/2011 BOLETIN, Kosovo (AFP) – A Serb Orthodox monastery in religiously polarised Kosovo is breaking stereotypes by making its nuns learn Albanian so they can talk to Muslim villagers who come to pray at a statue of the Virgin Mary. Muslims from all over Kosovo flock to the Sokolica monastery because they believe its 14th-century [...]

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Misunderstanding with Armenian Apostolic Church Council of Switzerland

April 12, 2011 News

BY TIMES.AM AT 11/4/2011 A press release was delivered to the Times.am e-mail from the Armenian Apostolic Church Council of Switzerland, which especially says: “On 8-9 April 2011, we heard through Armenian media that as of Sunday, 10 April 2011, Switzerland is considered a Diocese. We also learned through press reports that Arch. Hovnan Derderian [...]

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Bells from Russia are put to Belgium monastery Belfry

April 12, 2011 News

Moscow, April 11, Interfax – Seven bells cast at the Moscow ZIL factory were put on the new belfry of the Catholic Benedictine Monastery of the Holy Cross in Chevetogne, Belgium, the Belgium Orthodox Diocese told Interfax-Religion. Casting was mostly funded by the members of the Belgium Royal Family; and the bells were consecrated in [...]

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‘Erdoğan saved future of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate’

April 12, 2011 Featured News

11/4/2011 The spokesperson of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, Father Dositheos Anağnostopulos, has said Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan saved the future of the patriarchate by offering Turkish citizenship to a number of archbishops in 2009. In an interview with the Star daily, Anağnos-topulos said there were 12 archbishops on the patriarchate’s Spiritual Board at [...]

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EGYPTIAN AND ETHIOPIAN CHURCHES DISCUSS NILE WATER CRISIS

April 12, 2011 News

4/4/2011 Sources from the Egyptian Coptic Church said its leader, Pope Shenouda III, is communicating with the Ethiopian church in an effort to help resolve the water crisis, which erupted after Ethiopia began constructing a Millennium Dam on the Nile. Sources said that a trip by the Pope to Ethiopia has been suggested. Bishop Morcos, [...]

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Have demons got hold of Ownerless Church?

April 12, 2011 News

11/04/2011 Irakli Tskitishvili Expert’s Club A conflict is deepening in the Abkhazian Church hierarchy. Actions of Vissarion Apliaa and the Russian Orthodox Church in this occupied territory are irritating more and more people. In addition to facts when a great deal of discontent was expressed in the society towards Russia both regarding the issue of [...]

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April 8, 2011- Fourth report from Bishop Seraphim of Sendai

April 12, 2011 Featured News

Earthquake and Tsunami in Tohoku area, March 11, 2011 Report and Information on Eastern Japan Diocese April 8 Fourth report from Bishop Seraphim Aftershock quaking still happens three or four times every day and last night, another magnitude 7 earthquake occured near Sendai and hit the damaged building and suffered people’s heart again. Since the [...]

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