Sunday, October 2, 2011

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Calls for Peace, Justice Amid Ethnic Unrest

October 2, 2011 Featured News
An icon of the Intercession (Veil) of Virgin Mary, a major holiday celebrated by Orthodox Christians in Bulgaria on October 1. Image by Pravoslavieto.com

2/10/2011 Plovdiv metropolitan bishop Nikolay is holding a service Sunday in the village of Katunitsa near Plovdiv, the site that has sparked a week of ethnic unrest in Bulgaria. In the solemn mass which commemorates the victims of the violence, bishop Nikolay has also read out an address of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church to the [...]

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Metropolitan Council Concludes Meeting

October 2, 2011 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 30/9/2011 The meeting of the Orthodox Church in America’s Metropolitan Council was held at the Chancery here Wednesday and Thursday, September 28-29, 2011. In addition to members of the Metropolitan Council, members of the Lesser Synod of Bishops also participated. A number of guests — including Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko, advisor; Archpriest Matthew [...]

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Alaska Church lands officially returned to Diocese

October 2, 2011 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] Orthodox Church in America 29/9/2011 On Wednesday, September 28, 2011, the long standing issue of Alaskan Church land ownership was settled as His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah and His Grace, Bishop Benjamin of San Francisco and the West, Locum Tenens of the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of Alaska, signed 18 quitclaim deeds, [...]

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Kazakhstan’s New, Stifling Laws On Religion

October 2, 2011 News

2/10/2011 Many groups including those who follow minority religions, non-Muslims and non-Russian Orthodox Christians are now facing one of their worst fears that are coming true: state restriction and the annihilation of their religions. Religious persecution is not uncommon in the former Soviet Union satellite nation where the two biggest religions are Islam and Russian [...]

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Russian monastery in Greece Revives

October 2, 2011 News

30/9/2011 Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev intends to form a board of trustees and a fund to support the St. Pantaleon Monastery at Mount Athos, Greece. Populated mostly by Russian monks, this monastery is one of the world’s main sites of pilgrimages for Russian Orthodox Christians. In the time of the atheistic Soviet regime, the Russian [...]

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Egypt clashes between Muslim and Copts calmed, witnesses say violence into night

October 2, 2011 News

1/10/2011 CAIRO: Aswan’s governor denied the burning of a church in Edfu, in southern Egypt, on Friday and said there was no attack on the church since there is no church “but a Christian guest house,” adding that the situation has calmed and the clashes stopped. Governor Mostafa el-Said told Channel One, Egypt’s national TV [...]

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Muslims attack Egypt Coptic church as sectarian Violence Continues

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Manar Ammar and Joseph Mayton 30/9/2011 CAIRO: Tension between Muslims and Copts is blazing in the southern town of Edfu after two residential buildings were set on fire, eye witnesses from the town said Friday. The clashes started early Friday after a group of Muslim men surrounded the Mare’e Girgues church in opposition to construction [...]

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Turkey’s Armenians demand rights, not tolerance from State

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The historical Armenian church on Akhtamar Island in the province of Van was not returned to the Armenian Patriarchate of Turkey but opens for worship once a year.

YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN , İSTANBUL 2/10/2011 A new study, which explores various issues faced by Turkey’s Armenians in the republican period, asserts that Armenian citizens of the country are demanding their rights, not tolerance. “When fighting with discrimination, one thing that should never be used but which we frequently hear is the concept of ‘tolerance’ [...]

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“TAKING THE CHURCH TO THE PEOPLE”: THE TITLE OF THE LATEST BOOK OF HIS HOLINESS ARAM I

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For more information click here 1/10/2011 This timely book has been published through the generous contribution of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. The book prepares the ground for the forthcoming pastoral visit of His Holiness Aram I to the United States of America. The concerns the Catholicos highlights apply both to Armenia and the Diaspora. In [...]

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