Thursday, November 10, 2011

An Armenian Village Where Residents Don’t Curse and Don’t Watch TV

November 10, 2011 News

9/11/2011 Epress.am — Blond and blue-eyed, in the mountains of Armenia, they are like aliens from another planet. All around, the villages of Vahagni, Gamzachiman (Margahovit), Debet and suddenly — the village of Fioletovo, writes a Moskovsky Komsomolets correspondent who recent visited the village and shared his impressions with his readers. “There is not a [...]

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Armenian-language classes taught in Iraqi city

November 10, 2011 News

10/11/2011 YEREVAN. – Armenia’s Diaspora Minister Hranush Hakobyan on Thursday received Archbishop Avak Assadourian, the Primate of Iraq Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church. They discussed Iraqi-Armenian community’s education and youth issues. Archbishop Assadourian informed the minister that an Armenian-language course is being taught in a state-run school in northern Iraqi city of Arbil, ever [...]

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Episcopal Assembly of South America

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The Polish Orthodox Church Michał Kalina 06.11.2011 A second Episcopal Assembly of South America was held on 2-4 October in Buenos Aires, during which the bishops of the continent discussed issues relevant to the Orthodox Church in the region. The meeting was attended by a hierarch of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church, Archbishop Chrysostomos of [...]

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Volhynian icon-painting Discoveries

November 10, 2011 Featured News
THE KHOLM ICON OF THE MOTHER OF GOD. PRINCE DANYLO OF GALICIA BROUGHT IT APPROXIMATELY IN 1223-37 FROM KYIV TO THE CITY OF KHOLM (CURRENTLY POLISH CHELM)

By Natalia MALIMON, The Day, Lutsk 10/11/2011 They were made by Enhelina Smirnova, worldwide re­co­g­nized icon-painting history specialist, at the 13th In­ter­na­tional Academic Conference “Vo­­lhynian Icon: Research and Restoration.” It happened that I got to sit next to Enhelina Smirnova on the bus that took the conference participants to Volhynian mo­na­ste­ries and museums. And though [...]

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The International Conference in Honor of the Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas Concludes

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10/11/2011 From 28-30 October, the Volos Academy for Theological Studies held the first international conference and honorary event entitled “Metropolitan of Pergamon John Zizioulas: Person, Eucharist, and the Kingdom of God in Orthodox and Ecumenical Perspective.” The conference, as well as the entire honorary event, were broadcast live on the internet TV channel intv.gr . [...]

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Great Martyr St. Demetrius sublimely celebrated in New Belgrade

November 10, 2011 News

9/11/2011 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served the Holy Hierarchal Liturgy in the church of Great Martyr St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki in New Belgrade, with the concelebration of the priesthood of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac. After the cutting of slava cake, the gathered faithful people, His Excellency Mr. Alexander Vasilyevich Konuzin, the ambassador of the [...]

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Pakistani Christian laborer dies on workplace not permitted by officials to eat

November 10, 2011 News

10/11/2011 Lahore: November 10, 2011. (PCP) A poor Pakistani Christian named Ayub Masih rushed to his duty from home without eating breakfast but his wife gave him some bread in a paper wrap and instructed him to eat it on duty as he have not took his dinner last night due to poverty and what [...]

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‘Christ at the Checkpoint’ Conference in Bethlehem Will Only Breed More Theological Extremism

November 10, 2011 News

Joseph Weissman 9/11/2011 Theologians based in Bethlehem and in Britain are organising a conference for Christian leaders and theologians, entitled Christ at the Checkpoint. The conference aim is to: “provide an opportunity for evangelical Christians who take the Bible seriously to prayerfully seek a proper awareness of issues of peace, justice, and reconciliation.” The third [...]

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“Palestinian Theologian” Trashes “Palestinian Theology”

November 10, 2011 News

by Malcolm Lowe 10/11/2011 For over two decades, parts of the Christian world have been bemused by the writings of self-styled “Palestinian Christian theologians.” Since their brightest lights are Protestant pastors, they are minor figures among the overwhelmingly Orthodox and Catholic faithful of the Holy Land. But they are strangely popular in Liberal Protestant circles [...]

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Metropolitan Kallistos will visit Poland

November 10, 2011 News

Szymon Krzyszczuk 31.10.2011 Metropolitan Kallistos (Ware) on 11-21 November will stay in Poland. He accepted the invitation made by the employees of the University of Wrocław and November 14-15 he will be the guest of honor at the international conference Academic Forum for Peace organized by the university. During his stay in Poland, Metropolitan Kallistos [...]

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THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM DECORATES THE EXARCH OF THE ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE IN PARIS

November 10, 2011 News

30th October File News On Sunday, October 17th/30th 2011, His Holy Beatitude our Father and Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos decorated in Paris His Eminence Archbishop of Komana Gabriel Exarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate with the knighthood Cross decoration of the Holy Sepulcher. This honorary distinction took place in the Patriarchate and in the frame of [...]

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What kind of people are the current owners of the shrine in the Kholodny Yar?

November 10, 2011 News

By Yurii MELNYK 10/11/2011 The ancient Holy Trinity and St. Mot­rona’s Monastery has been established as far back as in the 12th century and well-known throughout the land. It was destroyed repeatedly in the turbulent periods of our history. The Mongol invasion, Catholic encroachment after the Union of Lublin, Turkish raids during the Ruin, Bolshevik [...]

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Orthodox Gathering sets up committee for Expats

November 10, 2011 News

The Daily Star 10/11/2011 BEIRUT: The Orthodox Gathering established a new committee Wednesday to follow up on the community’s affairs in different countries around the world. The gathering, a group of businessmen, politicians and Greek Orthodox clerics, was formed earlier this year in protest against what they called the marginalization of the Greek Orthodox sect [...]

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American Coptic Association letter to Hillary Clinton

November 10, 2011 Featured News

9/11/2011 Your Excellency Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, U.S. State Department, Washington D.C. Dear Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton: We would like to inform you that as soon as you expressed your satisfaction with the performance of The Supreme Egyptian Military Counsel, the army forces on October 9th 2011, fired live ammunition at the armless [...]

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Bethlehem and beyond: Tracing the life of Jesus

November 10, 2011 News

9/11/2011 FLOWER MOUND, TX, November 7, 2011 — The Holy Land has preserved churches and monuments that memorialize events in the life of Jesus. The truth is that we cannot be absolutely certain of the identity of these places. Tradition, Scripture, and reason are guides to indicate potential sites. For Christians the “holy sites” are [...]

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Registration Now Open for 2011 College Conferences

November 10, 2011 Featured News

BROOKLINE, MA [OCF] 8/11/2011 VISIT OCF WEBSITE MORE DETAILS Registration for the 2011 College Conferences is now open at events.ocf.net. The conferences will be held during Christmas Break in three locations: St. Nicholas Ranch in Dunlap, Calif.; Antiochian Village in Bolivar, Pa.; and the Diakonia Center in Salem, S.C., each centering on Orthodox Christian Fellowship’s [...]

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AAC overwhelmingly approves proceeding with implementation of the Strategic Plan

November 10, 2011 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA/Priest John Vitko] 3/11/2011 The draft Strategic Plan for the Orthodox Church in America was a major focus of the recent 16th All-American Council. Four of the eight plenary sessions focused in part or in-to on the Strategic Plan. The heart of these activities were two three-hour long workshops focused on each of [...]

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Catholicos Baselios Thomas I visits His Excellency Governor Shri M K Narayanan of West Bengal

November 10, 2011 News

9/11/2011 Syrian Orthodox Church in India KOLKATA/INDIA: His Beatitude, Aboon Mor Baselious Thomas I, the Catholicos of India, visited Calcutta diocese accompanied by, His EminenceMor Aprem Mathews, the Metropolitan of the Perumbavoor Division of the AngamalyDiocese and His Eminence Mor Irenius Paulose, the Metropolitan of the Diocesesof Calicut, Australia and New Zealand.His Beatitude and assisted [...]

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