Saturday, August 27, 2011

Jerusalem’s ‘Crown’ Gate, the Damascus Gate, Restored

August 27, 2011 Featured News

Author: Ryan Jones, Travelujah 23/8/2011 Allaboutjerusalem.com The Old City of Jerusalem is famous for, among other things, its eight unique gates*, none of which are more impressive than the Damascus Gate. Built by the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 as part of a total revamp of Jerusalem’s walls, the Damascus Gate featured a [...]

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Vandals target Airdrie-area Church

August 27, 2011 News

BY BILL KAUFMANN,CALGARY SUN 25/8/2011 Mounties are hunting a group of offenders who vandalized a church nearing completion near Airdrie. Sometime last weekend, the vandals smashed the glass doors of the St. Mina Coptic Orthodox Church, gaining entrance to the building just northeast of the Cross Iron Mills mall. Once inside, they damaged drywall in [...]

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Historic Church of St. George in Tripoli Ransacked

August 27, 2011 Featured News

Anastasia Chaini 25/8/2011 The historic church of St. George located in Libya, in Tripoli, dating back to 1647 was ransacked. The church is the oldest Orthodox church in North Africa. The president of the Greek community, Dimitris Anastassiou transferred the news to the Metropolitan of Tripoli Mr. Theophylaktos, who has been in Greece since late [...]

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Armenia: Village Hopes Religious Revival Can Spur Economic Improvement

August 27, 2011 News
The churchless village of Karakert, left emotionally and economically crumbling after the collapse of the Soviet Union, holds a mass baptism in the hall of the community center, where residents of all ages were christened into the Armenian Apostolic Church with blessings from priests, handmade cross necklaces, candles and holy water. (Photo: Keegam Shamlian)

By:Liana Aghajanian Originally published by EurasiaNet.org 25/8/2011 Residents of one of Armenia’s most dilapidated villages are hoping a religious revival can improve their economic fortunes. In early August, the town of Karakert, a churchless Armenian village founded during the 1950s to house factory workers, hosted a mass baptism. Residents, some of whom now refer to [...]

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Egyptian churches reject call for massive anti-Israel Protest

August 27, 2011 News

Emad Khalil 25/08/2011 Egyptian churches announced on Thursday their rejection of a protest scheduled for next Friday to demand the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador to Cairo. A number of activists who have been staging a sit-in in front of the Israeli Embassy called Tuesday for a million-strong demonstration to take place this Friday to [...]

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SOS: Handwritings are annihilated from Armenian Churches in Tbilisi

August 27, 2011 News

26/8/2011 Armenian Churches in Georgia have always been interested and not only for Armenians or the amateurs of the church architecture. Most part of these cathedrals was built in middle ages and is protected since our days. This proofs the high spiritual and cultural level of Georgia and of Armenians as well who lived in [...]

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Preparing for the next 700 years

August 27, 2011 News

by T.J. | VISOKI DECANI 19/8/2011 DAWN breaks over western Kosovo, and a bearded monk in black, flowing robes walks around the Serbian Orthodox monastery church of Visoki Decani hammering a long wooden board to call the faithful to prayer. But, as the monastery lies in majority-Albanian (and Muslim) western Kosovo, there are hardly any [...]

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Opinion: Turkey’s Grand Gesture

August 27, 2011 Featured News

By Idris Tawfiq – The Egyptian Gazette 26.8.2011 Turkey has come a long way in recent years. Gone is the era and ethos of a country governed by the military and in its place we have a Turkey that is strong and comfortable with itself and its democracy, a Turkey now playing a major role [...]

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Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk meets with Patriarch Theophilos of Jerusalem

August 27, 2011 News

25/8/2011 On August 25, 2011, His Beatitude Theophilos III, Patriarch of the Holy City of Jerusalem, received Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, head of the Moscow Patriarchate’s department for external church relations, who came to the Holy Land for a working visit with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia. Metropolitan [...]

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Chechnya saw the first mass baptism in its today’s History

August 27, 2011 News

Grozny, August 26, Interfax – Archbishop Zosima of Vladikavkaz and Makhachkala performed the first mass baptism ceremony in the history of Chechen republic in the river Terek of Naursky dirstrict. 35 five citizens of Naursky and Shelkovsky districts were converted to Orthodoxy, press service of Chechen leader reports Friday. “Keep your Orthodox faith, live in [...]

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On the day of the 20th Anniversary of Independence of Ukraine the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church performed a prayer service at the Kyiv-Caves Monastery

August 27, 2011 Featured News

On August 24, the day of the 20th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine, His Beatitude Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine Volodymyr celebrated a prayer service in the square in front of the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. Raising the thanksgiving prayer to God, His Beatitude asked the Almighty Lord for the …

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KYIV. Metropolitan Volodymyr conferred the Order of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

August 27, 2011 News

On August 25 Metropolitan Volodymyr at his residence at the Kyiv Caves Lavra received the leaders of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Marking the deserts of servicemen to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, the Archpastor conferred on them ecclesiastical awards. In particular, His Beatitude conferred on the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces [...]

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KYIV. The Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church met with the Head of the UGCC Svyatoslav (Shevchuk)

August 27, 2011 News

On August 23, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine at his residence in the Kyiv Caves Lavra received the Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church Svyatoslav (Shevchuk), accompanied by the Secretary of the General Synod of the UGCC Bishop Bohdan (Dziurakh). Metropolitan Volodymyr welcomed the new Head of the UGCC on [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church in CA to be divided into 4 parts

August 27, 2011 News

By Alisher Karimov 2011-08-25 BISHKEK – The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) has decided to form a Central Asian Metropolitan District containing four independent parts, archpriest Igor Dronov, secretary of the Bishkek diocesan administration of the ROC, told Central Asia Online. The move is meant to simplify church governance, he said. In each of the four [...]

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Greek Church Warns Of ‘Tsunami Of Poverty’

August 27, 2011 Featured News

26/8/2011 Greece will face a desperate situation this autumn, with a wave of poverty stemming from its crippled economy, a spokesman for the Orthodox Church in Athens warns. Speaking to Sky’s business presenter Jeff Randall for a special programme on Greece’s financial woes, Costis Dimtsas described the added pressures the Church were facing in the [...]

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