Sunday, August 7, 2011

Piece of Noah’s ark gifted to Cilician Catholicos Aram I

August 7, 2011 News

6/8/2011 Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I was gifted a piece of wood of Noah’s ark, Nouvelles d`Arménie reports. Italian alpinist Tido de Luca found the piece when he was climbing the Mount Ararat last year. Father Vahan Ohanian of the St Lazarus Mekhitarian Monastery in Venice, Italy gave the supposed piece [...]

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Speech of His Grace Bishop Jovan (Puric) of Nis given at the enthronement in Cathedral Church of Nis

August 7, 2011 News

7/8/2011 Serbian Church Today we are introduced to the throne of the ancient diocese of Nis at this holy Gathering regarding the Name of God. To us entering into this throne is joining the efforts of many over the centuries, and this on the day of the Assumption of St. Anne. According to the words [...]

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Gethsemane Convent Commemorates St Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles

August 7, 2011 News

5/8/2011 THE RUSSIAN CHURCH MISSION IN THE HOLY LAND As reported by the official website of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, on August 4, 2011, Gethsemane Convent held its feast-day celebrations of St Mary Magdalene, Equal-to-the-Apostles. All-night vigil and Divine Liturgy and the monastery were led by His Eminence Archbishop Mark of Berlin, Germany [...]

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Met. Jonah Publishes Encyclical on Marriage and the Moral Limits of Human Sexuality

August 7, 2011 News

July 28, 201 Beloved Fathers, brothers and sisters in Christ, If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus [...]

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Armenian church re-opens to worship in southern Turkey

August 7, 2011 Featured News

7/8/2011 An Armenian church was re-opened on Sunday to worship after being closed for nine years in Iskenderun town of the southern province of Hatay. An Armenian church was re-opened on Sunday to worship after being closed for nine years in Iskenderun town of the southern province of Hatay. Turkish Armenian Patriarchate appointed Priest Avedis [...]

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Metropolitan Philip Announces Election of New Auxiliary Bishops

August 7, 2011 News

6/8/2011 Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America At the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy on Saturday, July 30, at the 50th Convention of the Antiochian Archdiocese, His Eminence Metropolitan Philip announced that the Synod had elected three archimandrites of the Archdiocese for elevation to the episcopacy. They are: the Rt. Rev. Archimandrite John Abdalah, [...]

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Church leaders reject governors’ reshuffle for excluding Copts

August 7, 2011 News

Emad Khalil 06/08/2011 Church leaders expressed anger at the exclusion of Copts in this week’s reshuffle of governors, saying they expected authorities to include three Coptic governors instead of one, as was the case before the revolution. Eleven new governors were appointed in the reshuffle. The priest at Virgin Mary Church in Omaraniya, Flopatir Gamil, [...]

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PRINCE OF WALES CONTRIBUTING TO THE RESTORATION OF HILANDAR MONASTERY

August 7, 2011 Featured News

6/8/2011 The Friends of Mount Athos is a charitable and educational society founded in England and dedicated to supporting the well-being of the monasteries of Mount Athos – the Holy Mountain, a monastic state situated in the territory of Greece and a home to 20 Eastern Orthodox Monasteries. The society recently organized a fundraising event [...]

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European politician calls new generation to defend Christianity

August 7, 2011 News

By David Kerr and Alan Holdren 7/8/2011 Rome, Italy, Aug 4, 2011 / 05:29 am (CNA).- One of Europe’s foremost Catholic political thinkers has called for a new generation of politicians to defend and promote orthodox Christian ideals. “We need people with conscience in politics,” said Rocco Buttiglione, the vice-president of the Italian Parliament’s Chamber [...]

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Bay Area Eritreans try to keep the faith amid religious, Political Schisms

August 7, 2011 Featured News

By Matt O’Brien Contra Costa Times Posted: 08/07/2011 Updated: 08/07/2011 OAKLAND — The schism began the day police officers rushed to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church expecting to break up a fight. What they found that Sunday morning was a group of priests and church members arguing about politics. The Rev. Dibekulu Lenie infuriated the [...]

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All Saints Orthodox in Olyphant celebrates Church Rebirth

August 7, 2011 News

7/8/2011 OLYPHANT – If you’re walking into All Saints Orthodox Church for the first time, you may find it hard to believe that it was nearly in ruins after a catastrophic fire in March 2006. With construction complete more than five years later, the Rev. David Cowan and parishioners look at the tragedy not as [...]

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