From the monthly archives:

September 2011

Palestinian Christians Are Hopeful About Statehood

by OCP September 30, 2011 Featured News
Palestinian Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem on Palm Sunday. – Jamie Lynn Ross/Flickr Creative Commons

BY MICHELE CHABIN 09/30/2011 Mahmoud Abbas asked for sovereignty at the United Nations, and residents back home look to the future. JERUSALEM — Salim Manarious, a retired former school headmaster, believes there will be a sovereign Palestinian state in his lifetime. “I believe it because I’m a Palestinian,” the 72-year-old Orthodox Christian said Sept. 23, [...]

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Exclusive Snaps of the Celebration of Demera in Ethiopia

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

30/9/2011 Special Courtesy : Yonas Garedew Addis Ababa- Ethiopian Orthodox church followers on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 evening marked Demera, which commemorates the finding of the True Cross. Source: OCP news Service

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ANNOUNCEMENT. Media accreditation for coverage of the visit of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine Started

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

Accreditation opened for the events that take place during the visit of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia to Ukraine (Chernovtsy and Bukovina Diocese) 01 – October 2, 2011 Accreditation request must contain: Name of a journalist, position and name of the media. Send to e-mail of the press office of the [...]

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Patriarch says “shame parade” should not be held

by OCP September 30, 2011 Featured News

30/9/2011 BELGRADE — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has called on competent authorities not to allow the Pride Parade, which he called “shame parade”, to be held. “Our city and our public are this year being shaken by the issue of holding of so-called ‘shame parade’. I would with much justification call this plague [...]

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Representative of Moscow’s Patriarch meets with Pope

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

29/9/2011 September 29, 2011. (Romereports.com) It was a cordial visit between the Vatican and the Foreign Minister of Russia’s Orthodox Church. But despite this friendly greeting, the pope will not be meeting with Moscow’s Patriarch, at least not anytime soon. “Welcome, good morning, thanks for your visit.” “Very nice to see you.” This is the [...]

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In Lebanon, a Tangle of Religious Laws Govern Life and Love

by OCP September 30, 2011 Featured News

ANNA LOUIE SUSSMAN- Anna Louie Sussman is a New York-based freelance writer for major U.S. magazines and newspapers, and the senior editor and writer for womenintheworld.org. 29/9/2011 The Ottoman-era personal status laws apply differently to each of 15 religion-based groups, effectively outlaw secular marriage or divorce, and codify discrimination against women. BEIRUT, Lebanon — When [...]

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Turkey’s Elephant in the Room: Religious Freedom

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

By Susanne Gusten New York Times 9-29-2011 ISTANBUL — With his triumphant tour of the countries of the Arab Spring this month, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has managed to set up Turkey on the international stage as a role model for a secular democracy in a Muslim country — as, in his words, “a [...]

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Texas Museum to Return Orthodox Frescoes to Cyprus

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

By MENELAOS HADJICOSTIS Associated Press NICOSIA, Cyprus 30/9/2011 (AP) A Houston-based museum exhibiting a set of rare 13th-century frescoes that were looted from Cyprus more than three decades ago has agreed to return them, the leader of the divided island’s Orthodox Christian church said Friday. Archbishop Chrysostomos II said the Menil Collection plans to return [...]

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Jerusalem churches on Palestinian statehood

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

30/9/2011 Among those with a significant stake in achieving a just-peace for Palestinians and Israelis are the Heads of Christian Churches in Jerusalem. Earlier this month they issued a communiqué, reported in Ekklesia (http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/15393), which sets out their perception of the key principles involved in the debate about Palestinian statehood. The full statement is as [...]

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Egypt: desire for divorce drives Coptic-Muslim Tensions

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

30/9/2011 A desire for divorce is the cause of much of the tension between Muslims and Coptic Orthodox Christians in Egypt, according to a newly published article in the Catholic Near East Welfare Association’s ONE Magazine. Because Islam is tolerant of divorce and Coptic Orthodoxy by and large is not, many Coptic women have converted [...]

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Orthodox archbishop: we’re internally divided on question of ‘primacy’

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

By Benjamin Mann 30/9/2011 Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Sep 30, 2011 / 12:51 am (CNA).- A leading Russian Orthodox official says the Eastern Orthodox churches have yet to resolve the question of authority among themselves, a condition for future progress on the issue of the papacy. “I would say that there are certain divergences, and there [...]

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Church warns of ethnic flare-up

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

Associated Press 2011-09-30 Bulgaria’s influential Christian Orthodox Church is urging people to avoid further ethnic flare-ups in the Balkan country. Riots erupted last weekend after a 19-year-old man was run over and killed by a minibus driven by a man linked to a local Roma leader. Angry villagers hurled stones and firebombs at the house [...]

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Updates from STOTS

by OCP September 30, 2011 News

St. Thomas Orthodox Theological Seminary Indian Orthodox Church 30/9/2011 Kairo 2011 CD Released The Kairo 2011 CD which is part of the outreach programme was released by HG Dr.Yakoob Mar Irenaios at STOTS, Nagpur on 29th September 2011 after the Holy Qurbana. HG Dr. Youhanon mar Demetrios also graced the occasion. HG Dr.Yakoob Mar Irenaios, [...]

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Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to Resume Dialogue for Unity

by OCP September 29, 2011 Featured News

23/9/2011 Kiev: It has been reported that the Ukrainian Orthodox Churches have decided to to Resume Dialogue to over come Schism. Recently a joint statement made by Patriarch Filaret (Patriarch of Kyiv and all Rus-Ukraine, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Kiev Patriarchate) and Metropolitan Medofy Metropolitan of Kyiv and All Ukraine, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox [...]

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Orthodox Christianity In Czech and Slovakia Is Growing

by OCP September 29, 2011 Featured News
Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Republic and All Slovakia

By Aimilios Polygenis 24/9/2011 Romfea.gr “The number of Orthodox in the Czech Republic is increasing every day,” said the Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech Republic and All Slovakia in an interview. His Beatitude the Metropolitan of Czech spoke of increased faith compared to other denominations in the country, saying that “many people from the former [...]

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Church fortune to remain Sacrosanct

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

Alain Salles 26/9/2011 As the country struggles with the crisis and its consequences, the assets of the Orthodox Church have yet to be affected by the government’s stringent austerity measures. Le Monde reports on a taboo that protects the Church’s close links with the state and the clergy’s influence on public policy. The Church and [...]

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A Visit to a Monastery on Mt. Athos

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

By Dr. Nikos M. Spanakos Special to Brooklyn Daily Eagle (contributors@brooklyneagle.net), published online 09-27-2011 BROOKLYN HEIGHTS — Time to return to the birthplace of my beloved parents, Greece. Not to celebrate but to contemplate the third ingredient of the “Holy Trinity”: the mind, the body and the soul. My Varvara (Barbara) and I in August [...]

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Patron Saint’s Day of the Faculty of Law in Belgrade

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

28/9/2011 Since 2006, every September 27 on the Feast day of the Cross, the Faculty of Law of the University of Belgrade celebrates its day and its Patron Saint’s Day, since the regular teaching at the Orthodox department of the Lyceum in Belgrade began on September 14, 1841 according to the Julian calendar. On this [...]

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Feast of the Cross in Belgrade

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

28/9/2011 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served yesterday, on the Feast of the Cross, the Hierarchal Divine Liturgy in Belgrade’s church of St. Mark the Apostle and the Evangelist. His Holiness Irinej Serbian Patriarch met today with 9 Roman Catholic priests from the Vrhnik deanery in Slovenia. The meeting was also attended by the Belgrade [...]

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Liturgical memory of the head of the Church of the Czech and Slovakian lands

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

26/9/2011 On the occasion of 90 years since the enthronment of the Holy New Martyr Gorazd of Czech lands in the Cathedral Church in Belgrade, the Divine Liturgy was served by His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch and His Beatitude Metropolitan Christopher of the Czech and Slovakian lands. They were concelebrated by many priests of the [...]

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Consecration of the restored church, ordination of nuns and first wedding after 12 Years

by OCP September 29, 2011 Featured News

Serbian Church 26/9/2011 Restored old church in Djakovica today was consecrated and declared as the monastery of Ascension of the Most Holy Mother of God and a metochion of the monastery of Dechani. In a newly-proclaimed monastery today two old ladies (novices) were ordained nuns who had been living for years beside this church and [...]

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Patriarch Kirill expresses “respect, fraternal love” to Pope Benedict XVI

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

Moscow, September 27, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed his respect towards Pope Benedict XVI. “I am rejoicing at the opportunity to meet with you as the high representative of the Catholic Church and the Holy See in order to express my respect and fraternal love to His Holiness. I [...]

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Bako Sahakyan and Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II Met

by OCP September 29, 2011 News

On 27 September President of the Artsakh Republic Bako Sahakyan visited Mother See on Holy Etchmiadzin and met Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, central information department of the office of Artsakh Republic President informs. Issues related to the state-church interrelations and spiritual life of Artsakh were discussed during the meeting. The President considered the [...]

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Kazakhstan: Christians fear draft laws threaten Religious Freedom


by OCP September 29, 2011 News

29/9/2011 Christians in Kazakhstan are concerned that draft legislation being discussed in Parliament’s upper house today (Thursday 29 September) would severely limit religious freedom. If it were passed, one of the two draft laws would make illegal the activities of any group refusing to submit to a proposed tough new registration system. The same would [...]

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His Beatitude Daniel Celebrates Four Years Since His Enthronement As Patriarch Of The Romanian Orthodox Church

by OCP September 28, 2011 Featured News
His Beatitude Daniel - Archbishop of Bucharest, Metropolitan of Muntenia and Dobrogea, Locum tenens of the throne of Caesarea Cappadociae and Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church

28/9/2011 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: Friday, 30 September 2011, it is four years since the enthronement of His Beatitude Daniel as Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. On this occasion, at 9.30 hours, the Patriarch of Romania will celebrate the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral assisted by a group [...]

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