Friday, December 2, 2011

Church: EU has alternative, Serbs Should Persevere

December 2, 2011 Featured News

B92 2/12/2011 BELGRADE — The Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) has issued a statement sending a message to both the Serbian authorities in Belgrade, and the Serbs in Kosovo. The SPC statement on Friday advised the authorities that Serbia’s membership in the EU “does have alternative”, and called on Serbs manning the barricades in northern Kosovo [...]

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Focus on religion was ‘grave mistake’ by political parties, expert says

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Egyptian Coptic Christian women help voters find their registration numbers outside a polling station in the Manshiet Nasser district of Cairo on Nov. 29. (AFP Photo/Mahmud Hams) By:Heba Fahmy /Daily News Egypt 2/12/2011 CAIRO: Egypt’s political parties made a “grave mistake” by focusing on religion while campaigning ahead of parliamentary elections, said Mazen Hassan, professor [...]

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Bishop Jovan serves memorial service on the place of mass grave found at the Car Factory in Kragujevac

December 2, 2011 News

Serbian Church 2/12/2011 His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumaidja served a memorial service of the suffered Christians on the place where workers unearthed their skeletons in an unmarked mass grave in the Car Factory in Kragujevac. Bishop Jovan prayed for the innocently suffered during and after the Second World War. The remains were found at [...]

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Metropolitan Amfilohije concludes his visit to Brazil

December 2, 2011 News

Serbian Church 2/12/2011 His Eminence Archbishop of Cetinje and Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral, the Bishop-administrator of the Diocese of Buenos Aires and South-Central American of the Serbian Patriarchate, finished yesterday , on November 29, 2011 his visit to the Orthodox communities in Brazil which belong to our Local Church. The last day of [...]

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Etchmiadzin Welcomes Border Meeting with Pashazade

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1/12/2011 ETCHMIADZIN—The Holy See of Etchmiadzin welcomed a proposal by the leader of the Caucasus Muslim Allahshukur Pashazade’s recent propose to organize a meeting with Catholicos Karekin II along the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic-Azerbaijan border, said the Holy See’s press secretary. “During the November 28 trilateral meeting among the spiritual leaders of the region, they primarily reflected [...]

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President appreciates adopted European Parliament Resolution on Ukraine

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2/11/2011 President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych appreciates the European Parliament Resolution on Ukraine of December 1, 2011, particularly its provision on initialing the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU by the end of 2011, he told journalists in Jerusalem, ForUm learned from the presidential press office. “This is certainly good news for Ukraine. It [...]

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Armenian Catholicos wishes success to Junior Eurovision 2011 contestants

December 2, 2011 News

1/12/2011 ETCHMIADZIN. – The Catholicos of All Armenians Karekin II on Thursday received the contestants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2011, which will be held in Armenia’s capital Yerevan, on Friday and Saturday. The Catholicos acquainted the children, who had arrived in Armenia from different European countries, with the history of the Armenian people [...]

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Patriarch’s Moscow Visit an Irritation for Georgian Government

December 2, 2011 News

By Messenger Staff 30/11/2011 Catholicos Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II visited Moscow to congratulate Russian Patriarch Kiril on his 65th birthday. This was the official reason of the visit. However, the Georgian patriarch used it as an attempt to solve problems between Georgia and Russia. The Georgian leadership accepted this visit rather coldly. There was [...]

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Nativity church to undergo overhaul

December 2, 2011 News

BY RANDY BOSWELL, POSTMEDIA NEWS 2/12/2011 Laser scan by Montreal firm revealed flaws to 6th-century building erected at reputed site of Jesus’s birth. It’s a richly storied place that will be on the minds of millions of Canadians this month – only a tiny fraction of whom have ever set foot there, but whose souls [...]

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Patriarch Kirill fears all Christians could leave Arab world

December 2, 2011 News

Moscow, December 2, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has expressed concern over an upsurge of violence against Christian minorities in the Middle East and North Africa. “One of the most symbolic tendencies of our time is a mass exodus of Christians from the Middle East and North Africa, caused by an [...]

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