Thursday, November 3, 2011

The Halloween Horror: One Year Since Baghdad Cathedral Attack

November 3, 2011 News
Bishop of Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe

2/11/2011 The Anniversary: I scanned the congregation from my seat at the altar of the little church in Paris, Notre Dame de Chaldée. Their faces have become familiar to me: young women in black clutching small children, their long black hair and dark eyes blending into their widow’s weeds. And the parents whose children were [...]

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US Senator calls on Turkey to pay compensation to Armenian Genocide Victims

November 3, 2011 News

3/11/2011 U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein called on Turkey to recognize the Armenian Genocide and calls for “some recompense” for the tragedies that Armenians suffered, Asbarez reports. During a wreath-laying ceremony last Thursday at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Montebello’s Bicknell Park she was greeted by Armenian American church and community leaders. The Senator’s wreath-laying was [...]

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Bridging the gap between Copts and State

November 3, 2011 News

By MANAR AMMAR 3/11/2011 Images of Mohamed Tantawi, chief of the ruling Military Council in Egypt, meeting with Coptic Pope Shenouda III last week brought back memories of the old regime’s attempts to defuse sectarian tensions through staged meetings which often resulted in nothing. Yet, this most recent meeting comes at a very critical moment [...]

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Georgian and Armenian Church leaders still seeking a solution for disputed Churches

November 3, 2011 Featured News

Etuna Tsotniashvili 3/11/2011 What is the situation in the dispute between Georgia and Armenia on the issues of Georgian churches on Armenian territory? This issue has been activated recently and today the disagreement has boiled up to both the Georgian and Armenian Patriarchates. To raise public interest in the disputed churches in Georgia, a local [...]

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Centenary celebrations of Indian Orthodox Church begin

November 3, 2011 Featured News

3/11/2011 KOTTAYAM: The Catholicate of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church is now in its 100th year of formation. It was on 15th September 1912, at the St Mary’s Church founded by St Thomas in Niranam, that Mar Ivanios Metropolitan was consecrated as the first Catholicose of Malankara Church with the title Mar Baselios Paulose I. [...]

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Doctors Diagnose Stably Grave Condition Of Metropolitan Vladimir Of Ukrainian Orthodox Church Of Moscow Patriarchate

November 3, 2011 News

2/11/2011 As of November 2, doctors diagnosed stably grave condition of Metropolitan Vladimir, head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, press secretary to the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, archpriest Heorhii Kovalenko, has told Ukrainian News. “Stably [grave]… This is information as of the evening [November 2],” claimed Kovalenko. He although refused [...]

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