Friday, June 10, 2011

Patriarch of All Georgia receives Catholicos of All Armenians

June 10, 2011 Featured News

10/6/2011 Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II received Catholicos of All Armenian Karekin II in Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi today. The Armenian and Georgian spiritual leaders greeted each other and uttered a prayer in the church. The meeting was scheduled for 2:00 p.m, however it started an hour earlier, Armenian News-NEWS.am correspondent reports from [...]

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Armenian Church Leader Visits Georgia

June 10, 2011 News

Civil Georgia, Tbilisi 10/6/2011 The leader of Armenia’s Apostolic Church, Catholicos Karekin II, arrived in Georgia on June 10. Patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church, Ilia II, told the Armenian Church leader in the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Tbilisi that the visit “is very important for us, as well as for Armenia.” “I am sure [...]

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Sino-Russian consultations on exchanges and cooperation in the sphere of religion took place in Moscow

June 10, 2011 News

8/6/2011 On June 8, 2011 the first consultation of the Russian-Chinese group for contacts and cooperation in the religious sphere was held in the Moscow Patriarchate’s Department for External Church Relations In November 2009, a delegation from the Council for Cooperation with Religious Associations under the President of the Russian Federation, with the participation of [...]

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The Voice of Orthodoxy Forwards $1,200 to IOCC for Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami Victims

June 10, 2011 News

June 5, 2011 THE VOICE OF ORTHODOXY WEBSITE Chor-Episcopos Dr. Kyriakos of Chicago, President of The Voice of Orthodoxy, Inc., a Ministry for Global Orthodoxy, has sent $1,200 to the International Orthodox Christian Charities to assist the victims of recent earthquake and tsunami victims of Japan, with preference for Orthodox Christian victims. He also …

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Annual Regional Holy Episcopal Synod of Syrian Orthodox Church in India Concluded

June 10, 2011 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India- Under the Patriarchal See of Antioch and All East 10/6/2011 INDIA/COCHIN/PUTHENCURIZ: Annual regional Holy synod of Syrian Orthodox Church in India concluded. H.B Catholicose Baselious Thomas 1st Presided over the synod sessions which held at the Church Head quarters in India for the last 3 days. All Metropolitans of the [...]

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Copts, Muslims cautiously eye draft law meant to ease Tensions

June 10, 2011 News

Dina Samak 9/6/2011 A unified law that intends to help ease sectarianism and promote religious equality by putting churches on a par with mosques can be soon enacted, but Muslims and Copts have their reservations. A unified building code is seen by both Muslim and Christian activists as an important step to stand for human [...]

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Popes Repeats the Same Mistake by Hailing Cardinal Stepinac

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By Speroforum 6/6/2011 Pope Benedict hails WW2-era Croatian cardinal Blessed Aloysius Stepinac, who was the cardinal of Croatia during the Second World War, has been criticized for supposed good relations with Nazi occupiers. During his June 5 visit to Croatia, Pope Benedict XVI travelled to Zagreb’s Cathedral, which is dedicated to the Assumption of the [...]

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SPC shall not invite Pope to come to Nis

June 10, 2011 Featured News

Tanjug, N. Vlačo 7/6/2011 The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) most likely shall not invite the Pope Benedict XVI to attend the celebration of 1,700 years of the Edict of Milan in the Town of Nis in 2013 since the Synod had not agreed about that, Tanjug was told at the Patriarchy in Belgrade. As said [...]

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Holocaust survivors denounce pope’s Croatia Statement

June 10, 2011 Featured News

BETA Tanjug 9/6/2011 BELGRADE, WASHINGTON — The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors on June 6 blasted Pope Benedict XVI over his statement about WW2 Croatian Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac. The spiritual leader of the Roman Catholics claimed during his visit to Zagreb that Stepinac – tried and found guilty of collaboration with the fascist Ustasha [...]

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Church condemns murder of Dagestan Academic

June 10, 2011 News

Moscow, June 9, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church credited the Russian Muslim community with having always followed a “path of peace, creation and fraternal cooperation with other peoples and religions of Russia” and called for public efforts to “help the Russian Islamic ummah” reject Islamist extremism. Head of the Synodal Department for Church and [...]

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