Thursday, September 29, 2011

Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to Resume Dialogue for Unity

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


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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