Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Young Bulgarians Turn to Monastic Life

April 19, 2011 News

Konstantin Sabchev 16/4/2011 – Your Higher Eminence, have you noticed aspiration for monastic feats among contemporary Bulgarians? A positive trend is seen as compared to the situation in the 1990s, as more and more Orthodox Christians of both sexes are willing to take monastic vows. Of course, we are still a long way behind our [...]

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Coptic Church rebuilt by Egyptian Army

April 19, 2011 News

18/4/2011 Christian Egyptian Coptics attend the first Divine Liturgy in Two Martyrs Church on Sunday April 17, after it was completely rebuilt by the Egyptian army after it was torched on March 4 by angry Muslims in Helwan which is south of Cairo. Rumors of a love affair between a young Muslim woman and a [...]

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New museum highlights Christian presence in the Old City

April 19, 2011 News

By ELISA MOED/ TRAVELUJA 04/17/2011 A little known, off the beaten path, museum focusing on the historic Christian presence in the Holy Land brings a new dimension and rich diversity to the Jerusalem cultural scene. The Wujoud museum, situated within the walls of the Old City, in the Christian Quarter has slowly …

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Israeli government has no right to impose taxes on churches, Armenian Patriarchate Says

April 19, 2011 News

14/4/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Archimandrite of the Church of Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem Bagrat said that Christian churches and holy sites of Jerusalem exist for 2000 years, and an income tax has been imposed on them neither in the times of the Ottoman Empire, nor the British mandate. The Israeli government’s decision is powerless, the Archimandrite [...]

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Patriarch: Hunger strike is not Christian

April 19, 2011 News

TANJUG 18.04.2011 NIŠ — Serbian Patriarch Irinej said on Monday that he had sent a note to leader of the SerbProgressive Party (SNS) Tomislav Nikolić. The head of the Serbian Orthodox Church said he called on the opposition leader to end his hunger and thirst strike, “as it is not Christian”. Nikolić is on a [...]

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Russia: Moscow Patriarchate Official Says Muslim Crescents Could Be Put On Coats Of Arms In Muslim Regions

April 19, 2011 Featured News

By: Paul Goble 16/4/2011 Religious leaders, heraldry experts, and other commentators have rejected Mufti Talgat Tajuddin’s call for putting a cresent on the coat of arms of Russia, but a senior official in the Moscow Patriarchate has opened the way for more controversy by suggesting a Muslim crescent could be put on the coats of [...]

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Patriarchal Encyclical on Pascha 2011

April 19, 2011 Featured News

Prot. No. 404 Beloved children in the Lord, Once again, in a spirit of joy and peace, we address you with the delightful and hopeful greeting: “Christ is Risen!” The occurrences and events of our time may not seem to justify the exultation of our greeting. The natural destruction caused by seismic tremors and oceanic [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church raises RUR 21 million to aid Japan

April 19, 2011 News

Moscow, April 18, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church has raised over 21 million rubles (about $750,000) by mid-April to aid the victims of natural disaster in Japan, the official Church website reports. Most funds were transferred to the account of the Japan autonomous Orthodox Church. Its primate Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and All Japan [...]

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Possible talks between Macedonian and Serbian Churches

April 19, 2011 News

DNEVNIK 18/4/2011 The influential Orthodox Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Russian Orthodox Church are intensifying action to launch talks between the Macedonian and Serbian Orthodox churches. For decades the Macedonian church has had difficulty being accepted in the Orthodox world because of objections by the Serbian Church, which refuses to acknowledge its independent status. [...]

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View “Orthodox Lenten Meals” Segment on PBS’s Religion & Ethics Newsweekly

April 19, 2011 Featured News

15/4/2011 YONKERS, NY [SVOTS/OCA] Catherine Mandell, author of When You Fast: Recipes for Lenten Seasons, a cookbook published by St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press (2005), made national news recently when she appeared on the popular PBS program “Religion & Ethics Newsweekly.” In a segment titled “Orthodox Lenten Meals,” hosted by Bob Abernathy and aired April 9–10, [...]

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