Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Repose of Hieromonk Panteleimon‏ (Lake)

June 21, 2011 Featured News

Indonesian Orthodox Church Hieromonk Panteleimon (Lake) reposed in the Lord yesterday morning at 8.00am (local time, West Timor, Indonesia). Hieromonk Panteleimon was a cleric of the Indonesian Deanery (Indonesian Orthodox Church) of the Australia and New Zealand Diocese. He will be buried Monday, June 20 in his home village in Nilulat-Kefamenanu – 230 km East [...]

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Tradition And Continuity In The Relations Between The Romanian And Georgian Peoples

June 21, 2011 News

20/6/2011 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 20 June 2011, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received His Excellency Mr. Levan Metreveli, Ambassador of the Republic of Georgia in Bucharest, on a farewell visit, on the occasion of the end of his diplomatic mission in Romania. After over three years of diplomatic mission [...]

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Church of Saint Dumitru – Colentina of Bucharest Was Re-consecrated by the Patriarch of Romanian

June 21, 2011 News

19/6/2011 This morning His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church has re-consecrated the orthodox church in Colentina district of Bucharest, dedicated to Saint Great Martyr Dimitrie. This event represents the climax of the 12 years of renovation of the church both inside and outside. After re-consecration, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel celebrated the Divine [...]

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Poland Rescues Christian Refugees

June 21, 2011 Featured News

20/6/2011 Christian Persecution in Africa WARSAW/BUDAPEST (Worthy News)– Poland has granted asylum to 16 Christian refugees who accompanied Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski on a flight back from Tunisia.The Foreign Ministry said Friday, June 17, that the six adults and 10 children were “political refugees” from Eritrea and Nigeria, whose lives have been upturned by recent [...]

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H.B Catholicose Baselious Thomas 1st visited H.H Patriarch Ignatious Zakka 1st in Germany

June 21, 2011 News

Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch and All East GERMANY: 17 June 2011, Germany: His Beatitude Catholicose Aboon Mor Baselios Thomas I, along with Mor Gregorios Joseph, Metropolitan of Kochi Diocese & Malankara Holy Episcopal Synod Secretary, visited His Holiness Patrirach Moran Mor Ignatius Zakka I Iwas in Germany. Holy Father is on a medical and [...]

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A small church service in Diyarbakır signals bigger Reconciliation

June 21, 2011 Featured News
Surp Giragos’ restoration was widely supported by Istanbul Armenians, although the Turkish Culture Ministry, Diyarbakır’s Sur Municipality and diaspora Armenians also contributed to refurbishing the church.

VERCİHAN ZİFLİOĞLU DİYARBAKIR – Hürriyet Daily News 19/6/2011 Hearkening back to Diyarbakır’s cosmopolitan past, diaspora Armenians and clergy held a small service in a local church Saturday in what many hope is a harbinger for a more multicultural future in the southeastern city. “The sounds of the call to prayer and church bells will mix [...]

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Controversial plan for church on Hackensack Agenda Tonight

June 21, 2011 News

BY MONSY ALVARADO STAFF WRITER THE RECORD 16/6/2011 HACKENSACK — St. Gabriel’s Syriac Orthodox Church outgrew its one-story building on Fairmount Avenue many years ago. The congregation, with its 120 families, wants to build a larger house of worship a block south, on a site that is now home to St. Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church. [...]

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