Monday, June 6, 2011

Pentecost in Cairo

June 6, 2011 Featured News

Metropolitan Abba Seraphim Primate of the British Orthodox Church Writes: 6/6/2011 Traditionally the Holy Synod of the Coptic Orthodox Church meets in Cairo on the Eve of the Feast of Pentecost in plenary session. However, this year it has been cancelled at short notice and Pope Shenouda will remain in Cleveland, Ohio, where he has [...]

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Catholicos of All Armenians to leave for Georgia on June 10

June 6, 2011 News

6/6/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Catholicos of All Armenians, His Holiness Karekin II will meet with Catholicos Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II as part of his visit to Georgia on June 10-15. Relations of the Armenian Apostolic Church and Georgian Orthodox Church will be discussed during the visit. Karekin II will also visit Javakhk region populated [...]

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First Russian church built in Arabian Peninsula

June 6, 2011 News

Moscow, June 6, Interfax – The domes of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Philip the Apostle in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, have been crowned with golden crosses. It is the only Russian church to have been built in the United Arab Emirates and in the whole of the Arabian Peninsula, and the only one [...]

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Five new dioceses to reinforce the authority of the Moscow Patriarch

June 6, 2011 Featured News

by Nina Achmatova 06/06/2011 The synod approves the reorganisation of the canonical territory, still based on the Soviet framework with parishes in the same dioceses at a distance of 1,000 kilometres. Moscow (AsiaNews) – The Russian Orthodox Church is expanding its pastoral work and setting up five new dioceses. The decision was taken on 31 [...]

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Georgian Church leader praises late Abkhazian President

June 6, 2011 News
The Late Sergei Bagapsh

Tbilisi, June 6, Interfax – The head of the Georgian Orthodox Church has offered his condolences to the family of late Abkhazian President Sergey Bagapsh and called him “a dignified member of the Abkhazian people and Orthodox Christian.” “On behalf of the Georgian Orthodox Church, I wish to express sincere condolences over the death of [...]

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Cambridge-based Monks of New Skete to showcase dog training expertise on Good Morning America Saturday Morning

June 6, 2011 News

By PAUL POST ppost@saratogian.com 3/6/2011 CAMBRIDGE — The Monks of New Skete will be in church, so they won’t get to see themselves on today’s broadcast of Good Morning America. However, viewers across the country will be tuning in to learn about their highly regarded work as premier dog trainers and breeders. An ABC film [...]

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Eastern Diocese Assembly in Boston honors Mass. Governor, Armenian American Activists

June 6, 2011 News

4/6/2011 BOSTON – Some 300 attendees from parishes throughout the Diocese gathered in the ornate Imperial Ballroom of the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on Friday evening, April 29, to honor some heroic contributors to the Armenian Church and to the greater Armenian community. Hosted by the Holy Trinity Armenian Church of Cambridge, Mass., the Grand [...]

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Former Egyptian Interior Minister Accused of Collusion in Alexandria Church Bombing

June 6, 2011 Featured News
Former Interior Minister Habib El Adly

By Mary Abdelmassih 6-4-2011 (AINA) — The Egyptian attorney general has reopened the investigation into the bombing of the Two Saints Church in Alexandria on New Year’s Eve, which killed 24 Copts and injured more than 90. On May 25 Coptic Church attorney Joseph Malak presented a petition to the Attorney General to reopen the [...]

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Egypt military chief sends wishes to Coptic Pope in US Hospital

June 6, 2011 News

MENA 05/06/2011 The head of the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, expressed his wishes for a speedy recovery for the head of Egypt’s Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III, who is currently at the US for treatment. Tantawi’s message was delivered by the military attache at the Egyptian Embassy [...]

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New Orthodox Church Opens Doors in Sofa Mladost District

June 6, 2011 Featured News

Ralitsa Rouseva 6/6/2011 Fun and dancing for the youngest marked the Sunday festivities in Mladost district in Sofia where the first sod was turned for the construction of the new church of the Nativity of Christ. A new Christian Orthodox church, The Nativity of Christ, will be erected in “Mladost” residential district in Bulgaria’s capital [...]

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Russian writer films locations around Ninilchik for DVD project highlighting Alaska

June 6, 2011 News

McKIBBEN JACKINSKY Homer News 5/6/2011 HOMER, Alaska — A photo of the Russian Orthodox Church in Ninilchik, snow-covered mountains in the distance and blue sky above, were too intriguing for Sergey Pashkevich to ignore. A promotion copywriter with JCSC Publishing House Reader’s Digest in Moscow, Pashkevich was in Alaska in May to film the church [...]

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