Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Uspenski Cathedral gets stolen icon back after Restoration

August 10, 2011 Featured News
The fitting together of the icon and its wooden frame was ultimately one of the most important details in the conservation work. Photo: PENTTI VÄNSKÄ

10.8.2011 The icon spent six months at the Valamo Monastery for conservation. Riikka Köngäs, Head conservator at the Valamo Monastery, burst into tears in the monastery’s main chapel when she had to say goodbye to her ”dear child”, the miraculous icon of the “Theotokos of Kozeltshan”, depicting the Virgin Mary. Over the past six months, [...]

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Fedor Yemelyanenko accepts defeat as God’s will and plans to continue his Career

August 10, 2011 News

*** He became an Orthodox believer several years ago in Diveevo Moscow, August 10, Interfax – Legendary Russian fighter of mixed martial art Fedor Yemelyanenko was not despaired by the recent defeat as he accepts it as an Orthodox believer. “I accept it as God’s will about me and it means that I have to [...]

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Medvedev congratulates Athos clergy on St Panteleimon day

August 10, 2011 News

9/8/2011 President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has congratulated Archimandrite Jeremiah and other clergy of the Saint Panteleimon`s Monastery on Mount Athos in northeastern Greece on the fest day of Saint Panteleimon celebrated by the Russian Orthodox Church today. Mr. Medvedev stressed that historically this monastery has had deep links to Russia. The male monastery of [...]

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Another Armenian church to be restored in Turkey (photo)

August 10, 2011 Featured News

10/8/2011 ANKARA. – Another Armenian church will be renovated in Turkey, this time in Izmir province. Saint Sargis church will be restored at the expenses of Menemen city hall. City Mayor Tahir Sahin said renovation of Greek Saint Constantine church is over adding that the next to be restored the Armenian church. He stressed that [...]

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Syria: New Syrian defence minister is Christian: a difficult role

August 10, 2011 News

Asia News 10/8/2011 General Daud Rajhi is greek-orthodox. The Christian world has differing views of the president’s choice. Meanwhile, violence continues in the country. Assad reiterates after talks with Turkish Foreign Minister Davutoglu: the security forces “will not cease to pursue terrorist groups.” Damascus – International pressure on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad mounted yesterday, when [...]

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PC Alexander, former Indira Gandhi aide, Passed Away

August 10, 2011 Featured News

10/8/2011 Late PC Alexander was a member of the Indian Orthodox Church CHENNAI: PC Alexander, the powerful former principal secretary to prime minister Indira Gandhi who also served Rajiv Gandhi briefly, died at a hospital here Wednesday morning, his family said. He was 90. Alexander was undergoing treatment at the Madras Medical Mission Hospital for [...]

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Coptic Church denies reports of Shenouda’s deteriorating Health

August 10, 2011 News

Emad Khalil 10/08/2011 The Coptic Orthodox Church has denied rumors that its leader Pope Shenouda III is seriously ill. The Church said that Shenouda was in “good health” and that he was carrying on with his regular duties such as “meeting certain figures and attending the weekly sermon.” The rumors began on a Twitter account [...]

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Church threatens to pull children from Catholic Schools

August 10, 2011 News

Andrea Houston / Toronto 9/8/2011 TORONTO NEWS / ‘We just don’t believe in homosexuality,’ says Attaalla Ti Agia Maria and St Demiana the Martyr Coptic Orthodox Church in Etobicoke is doing some damage control after its priest penned a letter to the Toronto District Catholic School board threatening that the children of 5,000 Coptic families [...]

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