Thursday, October 6, 2011

OCP Invites Your Response

October 6, 2011 Featured News

6/10/2011 Beloved Readers and Well Wishers Here is an opportunity for you interact with the OCP Media Network team. We invite your valuable suggestions, comments, suggestions with regard to the content and quality of OCP Media Network especially our news portal. You are welcome to email us at: theorthodoxchurch.info@gmail.com HELP SUSTAIN Orthodoxy Cognate PAGE Make [...]

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Historic church to become Museum

October 6, 2011 Featured News
The press museum is said to be the third biggest in Turkey after the press museums in Istanbul and Bursa. Additional outbuildings may be assigned various uses as the restoration continues. AA Photo.

IZMIR – Anatolian News Agency 5/10/2011 The historic Greek Orthodox Church Ayavukla in the western province of İzmir has been under restoration for some time. A press museum will be constructed in an outbuilding when the restoration is complete A press museum will be housed in a restored outbuilding located in the western part of [...]

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The meeting of Patriarch and Pope could be on neutral territory – Metropolitan Hilarion

October 6, 2011 News

Moscow, October 6, Interfax – The Russian Church has stated again that it is early to speak about definite terms of meeting between Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and Pope Benedict XVI of Rome. “This prospect is real, but as we said it earlier, we’re interested not in the fact of the meeting, [...]

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Syriac Christians to get first church in Istanbul

October 6, 2011 Featured News
Prominent Syriac community leader, Kenan Altınışık (C) says the construction is set to begin as soon as suitable lands for the new church building are allotted.

Vercihan Ziflioğlu ISTANBUL- Hürriyet Daily News 5/10/2011 Turkey’s Syriac Christian community has secured approval from officials for the construction of its first church. The church, planned to be constructed in the Yeşilköy neighborhood, is expected to host 17,000 Syriacs who live in Istanbul After years of tussling and hairsplitting, Turkey’s Syriac Christian community has secured [...]

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Lebanese Orthodox Gathering discusses electoral law with Geagea

October 6, 2011 News

6/10/2011 Lebanese Forces leader Samir Geagea met on Thursday with a delegation of the Lebanese Orthodox Gathering to discuss the Orthodox proposal on the electoral law. “The discussion with Geagea was [detailed], and he said that the Orthodox proposal on the electoral law is worthy of serious [discussion],” Saleem Habib, the delegation’s spokesperson, said following [...]

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No fear for Christians in Lebanon, Syria: Hazim

October 6, 2011 News

By Antoine Amrieh The Daily Star 6/10/2011 IVKOURA, Lebanon: Greek Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius IV Hazim said Wednesday that there is no fear for Christians living in Lebanon and Syria but only of forces “working to destroy us.” Following a meeting with a Hezbollah delegation at the patriarchate in Balamand, Hazim said “I refuse that there [...]

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Serbs “among Europe’s most Religious Nations

October 6, 2011 Featured News

VEČERNJE NOVOSTI 6.10.2011 BELGRADE — A Belgrade daily writes today that Serbs are among Europe’s most religious nations, and adds that 95 percent of the population declared themselves as religious. The Večernje Novosti newspaper asked the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarchy to comment on this “astonishing data”, where they were told that the Serb nation [...]

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Russian Orthodox Church to get 13 new Dioceses

October 6, 2011 News

Moscow, October 6, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate’s Holy Synod, which convened in Moscow on Wednesday, made the decision to set up 13 new dioceses. The new dioceses will appear in Kazakhstan and also in the Irkutsk, Orenburg, Ryazan and Saratov regions, in Khabarovsk Territory and the Republic of Tyva, the Russian Orthodox Church said [...]

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