June 2011

Prayerful remembrance on the victims in Jadovno

June 29, 2011 News

29/6/2011 Above the Saran pit in Jadovno, His Grace Bishop Gerasim of Gornji Karlovci with the concelebration of priests and monks of the Bishopric of Gornji Karlovci served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy, and then the memorial service to all the killed Orthodox Serbs in the pits of Jadovno and other scaffolds in Croatia. The Holy [...]

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Patriarch: We will do all we can to preserve Kosovo

June 29, 2011 Featured News

Emg.rs, Tanjug, Infobiro.tv 29/6/2011 Serbian Orthodox Patriarch Irinej said Tuesday in Gracanica, central Kosovo, that Kosovo and Metohija is a blessed country in which there is room for all people of good will, and pointed out that greatest possible effort should be made so that it remains a part of Serbia, as it has always [...]

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Day of St Peter Preaches Half-Day Work in Bulgaria

June 29, 2011 News

29/6/2011 Bulgaria’s Orthodox Church is celebrating the day of St Peter and Paul (Pavel in Bulgarian) when – tradition says – people should work only until noontime. On June 29 the Orthodox Church celebrates the day of two apostles – Peter and Paul: Petrovden and Pavlovden is how the day is called in the Balkan [...]

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Ode to the Righteous Bulgarian Gentiles

June 29, 2011 Featured News
Lily’s Song: Soloist Neli Andreeva sings in front of the Philip Kutev National Folklore Ensemble. Read more: http://www.forward.com/articles/139203/#ixzz1QfRHBoEz

By Menachem Wecker 29/6/2011 Church, King and People Are All Celebrated in a Musical Festival When several trains entered Bulgaria secretly on March 8, 1943, to deport 8,000 Jews to Polish concentration camps, the Bulgarian Parliament, the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Bulgarian people opposed the anti-Semitic plot so vehemently that Nazi-sympathetic Alexander Belev, chairman [...]

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Pope Tells Orthodox: Incomplete Communion That Already Unites Us Must Grow

June 29, 2011 News

By Deacon Keith Fournier 6/28/2011 Pope Benedict is the Pope of Christian Unity. There is a growing collaboration between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches in efforts to slow the collapse of Christian influence in European culture. There have been other signs of the Spirit at work in pulling these Churches to a along the path [...]

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Serbia Blesses Church-Run Drug Rehab Centres

June 29, 2011 News

By Bojana Barlovac 29/6/2011 While the government gives seal of approval to Serbian Orthodox Church programme to treat drug addicts, some Serbs still have fresh memories of brutal beatings at a clerical-run rehabilitation centre. Serbian Orthodox Christian ChurchSerbia marked International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking with a cooperation agreement between the Health Ministry [...]

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Minister and Patriarch sign agreement on introducing religious service in VS

June 29, 2011 Featured News

Tanjug, Infobiro.tv 29/6/2011 Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej signed in the southern Serbian city of Nis Tuesday the Agreement on introducing religious service and performing religious rites in the Serbian Armed Forces (VS). Serbian Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac and Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej signed in the [...]

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DECORATION OF DEPARTING CONSUL GENERAL OF GREECE IN ALEXANDRIA BY HIS BEATITUDE

June 28, 2011 News

Alexandrian Patriarchate 25/6/2011 On 24th June 2011, His Beatitude Theodoros II, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, accompanied by His Grace Gabriel Bishop of Mareotis and the Clergy of the Patriarchate attended the reception hosted at the Consular Residence by the departing Consul General of Greece in Alexandria, Mr George Diakofotakis for the [...]

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‘Lay leaders’ to devote time for God’s work: Metropolitan Mar Seraphim

June 28, 2011 News

Indian Orthodox Church By: Liju Cherian 27/6/2011 BENGALURU : Dr Abraham Mar Seraphim, Metropolitan, Bangalore Diocese, has made a clarion call upon the lay leaders of the church to devote their time and effort towards the work of the church effectively. The Metropolitan was addressing a monthly meeting of the Bengaluru Orthodox IT employees at [...]

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Book on Remaining Graves at Armenian Church, Dhaka-India, Published

June 28, 2011 Featured News

27/6/2011 Family history researcher Liz Chater has completed her book: “Armenian Graves, Inscriptions and Memorials in India – DACCA – 1722-1977″. It contains in excess of 160 full colour photographs of all the remaining graves at the Armenian Church Dhaka (Dacca, previously in Bengal but now in Bangladesh). In addition, the author has included over [...]

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Catholicos of All Armenians starts St. Petersburg Visit

June 28, 2011 News

28.06.11 The head of the Armenian Apostolic Church on Monday arrived in the Russian northern city of St. Petersburg to attend events dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the local Armenian community. According to the Mother See of Holy Echmiadzin’s information system, the Catholicos of All Armenians began his pontifical tour by visiting the Armenian [...]

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Crosses and icons to combat wildfires in the Siberian Regions

June 28, 2011 News

06/28/2011 Russian Orthodox Church’s initiative to protect the country from the usual threat of summer fires. Alarm from Emergencies Ministry: compared to 2010, area affected by fires have tripled. Moscow (AsiaNews) – To combat the summer fires that once again threaten to devastate the territory of Russia, the Ministry for Emergency Situations has decided …

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Four men arrested in connection with sectarian clashes in Upper Egypt

June 28, 2011 News

26/06/2011 Egyptian security sources said on Sunday that four men had been arrested for their alleged involvement in sectarian clashes that erupted in Sohag governorate, Upper Egypt, on Saturday. Nine others are said to have been identified as involved in the clashes. The crisis in Sogah erupted between Muslims and Copts in the Awlad Khalaf [...]

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Greek Orthodox rally to rebuild Ground Zero Church

June 28, 2011 News

By Chris Herlinger 28/6/2011 NEW YORK (RNS) With cries of “Rebuild now! Rebuild Now!” parishioners and supporters of a Greek Orthodox church that was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks rallied at Ground Zero on Sunday (June 26) in hopes of resuming negotiations to rebuild the church. St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church and the Port Authority [...]

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Secretary for the Primate of the UOC denied the information about the transfer of the building of the memorial museum of Hryhory Skovoroda to Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy Holy Ascension Monastery

June 28, 2011 News

28/6/2011 Lately His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr has received a letter from the director of the Institute of Philosophy named after Hryhory Skovoroda Myroslav Popovych, in which the institute team asks to secure the Memorial Museum of Skovoroda in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytskyy from closure and transfer of new building of the Collegium to the Holy Ascension Monastery. In [...]

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Bishops Consecrated in Ukrainian Church

June 28, 2011 News

Archimandrite Mykolai (Kapustin) was consecrated as bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny On June 19, the Day of All Saints, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine presided over the Divine Liturgy in the square near the Church of All Saints in the construction site of the Resurrection Cathedral of the Ukrainian Orthodox …

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Orthodox Churches still support ecumenism, Theologian Says

June 28, 2011 Featured News
Arch-priest Viorel Ionita

By Jonathan Luxmoore ENInews 27/6/2011 Orthodox churches remain “fully committed” to ecumenical cooperation, despite recent disagreements with Protestants, according to a senior Orthodox theologian. “It may appear that some Orthodox churches aren’t satisfied over moral and ethical issues, and this may bring them closer as a family of churches. But we shouldn’t necessarily see this [...]

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Chinese Orthodox Missions Dinner in Canada Raises $1000

June 28, 2011 Featured News

27/6/2011 The Chinese Orthodox Church HAMILTON (ON) – On Sunday, June 26th, the parish of All Saints of North America in Hamilton hosted its annual Chinese Orthodox Missions Dinner, in support of the Orthodox Fellowship of All Saints of China. This is the fifth year the Canadian parish has hosted a Chinese Orthodox Missions Dinner, [...]

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Feast Day of Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas in Rakovica

June 28, 2011 Featured News

27/6/2011 The feast day of Holy Apostles Bartholomew and Barnabas was solemnly celebrated with the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the Belgrade suburb of Rakovica. The Holy Liturgy was served by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch with the concelebration of hierarchal deputy protopresbvter-staurophor Branko Mitrovic, presbyter Predrag Todorovic, protodeacon Tome Milanovic and Stevan Rapajic, and in [...]

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17th “ Pavlia” in Veria

June 28, 2011 News

Autonomous Archdiocese of Ohrid – Serbian Church At the Divine Liturgy served on June 26, 2011 in the town of Naoussa, in the Metropolitanate of Veria, Naoussa and Campania, in the presence of representatives of all Orthodox Churches, the martyrs for the faith suffered in the revenge of the Turks against the Orthodox people of [...]

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Humanitarian concert organized by the Embassy of Indonesia

June 28, 2011 News

27/6/2011 On behalf of His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch, His Grace Vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno attended on June 23, 2011 at the Ilija M. Kolarac Foundation the humanitarian concert of a folklore group from the Indonesian province of Aceh, suffered by the tsunami in 2004. During the musical and dance performance Aceh in Serbia [...]

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Representatives of the Romanian Community of France at the Patriarchal Palace

June 28, 2011 News

On 27 June 2011, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, received a group of ten persons, representatives of the Romanian community of France. They were co-ordinated by Mr. Eugen Tomac, Director of the Department for the Romanians from Everywhere. During the meeting, the issues the Romanians living abroad are faced with as [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Licensed 15 Priests of the Archdiocese of Bucharest as Father Confessors

June 28, 2011 News

On 27 June 2011, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church licensed 15 priests of the Archdiocese of Bucharest as father confessors. The religious service took place in the room of the Romanian Saints of the Patriarchal Residence, informs Trinitas Radio station. In the sermon delivered His Beatitude emphasised the responsibility of the [...]

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Russian Church calls for end to Christians’ Persecution

June 28, 2011 News

28/6/2011 The global community should develop effective mechanisms for the protection and support of Christianity, the Russian Orthodox Church believes, since it looks like the second persecution of Christians is happening in the world today. According to the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Community, 75% of all religious persecution in the world [...]

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One Christian in the world dies for faith every five minutes – Statistics

June 28, 2011 Featured News

Moscow, June 24, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church urged well-developed countries to set up an effective system of protecting Christians, in particular using financial factors. “The European Parliament in its Resolution of January 20 mentions the necessity to set up a specific mechanism of influencing the countries where Christians are persecuted. I think this [...]

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