Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Met. Kallistos to Deliver Keynote at Ss Alban & Sergius Fellowship, St. Vladimir’s Seminary

August 9, 2011 News

9/8/2011 [SVOTS Communications] From September 8–-10, 2011, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Yonkers, NY, will host the North American Conference of the Fellowship of Ss. Alban and Sergius. On the evening of September 8th, Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware)—Co-chair of Orthodox-Anglican Dialogue from 2008 to the present—will commence the proceedings by delivering a free and public keynote. Just prior [...]

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Kind Appeal to Support Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE

August 9, 2011 News

9/8/2011 Beloved Readers and Wellsihers This is a kind appeal from Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Society and Media Network. Support OCP® and donate to us. Your small action could prove big for us. Since our beginning in 2007, we have been supported by the kind donation from C G Alexander and his family all these years. [...]

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Public Statement of the Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church

August 9, 2011 News

4/8/2011 Regarding the visit of the monk Artemije,defrocked bishop, to certain Serbian communities in the United States of America Regarding the news that the monk Artemije (Radosavljevic) has publicly appeared in certain Serbian communities in the United States of America, presenting himself falsely as a bishop, the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox [...]

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The Church: A Pillar which gathers the Serbian Faithful

August 9, 2011 News

9/8/2011 An overview of the relationship between the Serbian Diaspora and the Serbian Orthodox Church To effectively consign to writing a word on the history of the Serbian Diaspora, from the first Serbian immigrants to the final emigrant waves, is in fact to note the efforts and endeavours of a people, of individuals and their [...]

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Bishop Jovan (Puric) of Nis introduced to the throne of the bishops of Nis

August 9, 2011 News

7/8/2011 Serbian Church Constantine’s city – Nis got today a new Bishop. At the Divine Liturgy which was served by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch Bishop Dr Jovan (Puric) was enthroned. Serbian Patriarch was concelebrated by His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral, Their Graces Bishops: Lavrentije of Sabac, Pahomije of Vranje, retired [...]

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AJC program engages Christian leaders in Jewish Study

August 9, 2011 News

By JEREMY SHARON 07/28/2011 13 members participating in Christian Leadership Initiative study classical Jewish texts with rabbis and educators in Jerusalem. A yearlong interfaith program conducted by the American Jewish Committee in conjunction with the Shalom Hartman Institute will draw to a close on Thursday, following 13 months of study and travel by a group [...]

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A Little Local Difficulty

August 9, 2011 Featured News

VISOKI DECANI 6/8/2011 IT IS five in the morning, and in the exquisite 700-year-old Serbian Orthodox monastery of Visoki Decani the soothing sound of chanted prayer wafts heavenwards. A few hours later, fortified by a hearty breakfast and a reading from the lives of the saints, the long-bearded and black-robed monks head off to work, [...]

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The Russian Church doubts Kosovo police is capable to protect Orthodox Shrines

August 9, 2011 News

Moscow, August 8, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate is concerned with desecration of Orthodox shrines in Kosovo. The statement of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations, posted on its website, explains it refers to the recent desecration of the Beheading of St.John the Baptist Church in the village of Samodraza, stealing of the roof [...]

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Copts alarmed by rise in young female converts to Islam

August 9, 2011 Featured News
Photographed by Mohamed Abdel Ghany

Alastair Beach 08/08/2011 The video footage is blurred and shaky, but there is no mistaking the identity of the two young girls. Sitting in what appears to be a busy city square and speaking above a cacophony of car horns, Christine and Nancy Fathy explain to the camera why they have run away from their [...]

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From Skudar to Yerevan: Unfinished Odyssey of Bedros Tourian’s Skull

August 9, 2011 News

8/8/2011 Sevan Deyirmenjian has written an opinion piece for the Istanbul Armenian newspaper Jamanak in which he calls for a final resolution to the question – what do to with the skull bones of 19th writer Bedros Tourian? The bones have been kept in a locked box at the Charents Museum of Literature and Art, [...]

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Patriarch Irinej: Kosovo is also my own Gaping Wound

August 9, 2011 Featured News

Tanjug 8/8/2011 “Kosovo is my personal big wound. I can remember how it all looked like back in 1948 when I went to Prizren for education. Today, everything is different. Destroyed walls of churches and burned shrines in Prizren and in all other places are like gaping holes,” Patriarch Irinej said for the Sunday edition [...]

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