Sunday, December 18, 2011

Orthodox Christian Humanitarian Visit to Kosovo Remains as Planned Amid Border Instability

December 18, 2011 Featured News

18/12/2011 CLICK HERE TO VISIT THE WEBSITE AND MAKE YOUR VALUABLE DONATIONS “We’re in the final and most crucial weeks of fundraising for our latest mission to Kosovo. While we are close, we are hoping that the holiday season sparks extra generosity in people and we cross our goal before the first of the year.” [...]

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More Coptic Orphans Reps Becoming Priests in Egypt

December 18, 2011 Featured News

18/12/2011 CLICK HERE TO DONATE When Cairo children asked that Ayman Zohair become a priest, His Holiness Pope Shenouda listened. Today Ayman Zohair is Abouna Mikhail, a priest, but as Ayman, he was a Coptic Orphans Rep. For 12 years, he spent most evenings and weekends visiting the homes of children who have lost a [...]

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At liturgy in Beijing

December 18, 2011 Featured News
Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos on the territory of the Russian Embassy in Beijing

Yulia Makoveychuk English translaton by Nina Tkachuk Dimas 18/12/2011 THE CHINESE ORTHODOX CHURCH Orthodox Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos in the Russian Embassy in Beijing, is in jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church; it was built in 1902 as part of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing. After the mission’s territory was given [...]

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Iraq’s dwindling Christian community faces new uncertainty

December 18, 2011 News

17/12/2011 REPORTING FROM BAGHDAD — Father Immanuel Dabaghian celebrates Mass. His voice echoes across the polished marble floors of the Church of the Virgin Mary in Baghdad, past the Christmas tree near the nave and the red-backed Bibles tucked into the pews. The pews are empty. Not a single parishioner attends Mass on this cold [...]

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Christians accepted in Egypt

December 18, 2011 Featured News

18/12/2011 CUMALİ ÖNAL c.onal@todayszaman.com The Western press increasingly publishes news stories and articles claiming that the Arab Spring ushered in an increase in the number of attacks and threats against Christians. Most of these stories and articles, however, refer to attacks against churches that were conducted during the last years of the Hosni Mubarak regime [...]

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France to criminalize denial of the Armenian Genocide

December 18, 2011 Featured News
Turkish Premier Tayyip Erdogan

Martin Barillas 17/12/2011 French president Nicholas Sarkozy’s party has introduced legislation in that nation’s legislature that would make illegal the denial of the infamous genocide perpetrated against Armenians and other Christians by the government of Turkey during the Second World War in 1915. This would make it a crime on par with denying the historicity [...]

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Turkish history books discriminating Armenians may be revised

December 18, 2011 News

17/12/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish Education Minister Ömer Dinçer has promised to alter clauses in Turkish history books that are antagonistic toward Armenians and Syriac Christians, according to Erol Dora, a deputy of Syriac origin from the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP). Dora met Dinçer on December 12 to request the alteration of the clauses in [...]

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Kolkata concert features Armenian folk songs

December 18, 2011 News

17/12/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Compositions of Béla Bartók and Bach were performed at St John’s church in Kolkata, India. The program also featured a dance performance and solo pianists as well as the Kolkata Music Academy Chamber Orchestra comprising only strings. Four Armenian folk songs, sung by the Tadevosyan Family Trio sans accompaniment, were indeed a [...]

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Turkey’s non-Muslim minorities discuss constitution

December 18, 2011 News

17/12/2011 PanARMENIAN.Net – Representatives of Turkey’s non-Muslim minorities met December 15 at the Armenian Patriarchate in Istanbul’s Kumkapı district to discuss the ongoing efforts to draft a new constitution amidst a discussion on who should represent them, Hürriyet Daily News reports. Participants in the meeting debated the recognition of minorities as legal entities, citizenship and [...]

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Is there a cultural war against Christmas?

December 18, 2011 News

By Charita Goshay CantonRep.com staff writer 18/12/2011 Mary Ebner says when she looks out at her Christmas display, it gives her a sense of serenity. Eighteen years ago, a neighbor crafted a life-sized Nativity silhouette for Ebner, which sits just in front of her barn. “The ‘noel’ sign on the top was made by a [...]

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President of Romania Meets Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew

December 18, 2011 News

Fani Toli 14/12/2011 On Tuesday, December 13, President of Romania Traian Badescu was received by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Phanar. The Romanian President was welcomed by the Patriarchal court at the entrance of the Patriarchate, headed by Metropolitan Stefanos of Kallipolis and Madytos. Next, the President paid homage to the Patriarchal church of St. George [...]

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Succariyeh: Orthodox Plan drives Lebanon ‘to its end’

December 18, 2011 News

18/12/2011 Loyalty to the Resistance bloc MP Walid Succariyeh said that the Orthodox plan for a new electoral law implies the “end of Lebanon.” In an interview with the Kuwaiti newspaper As-Seyassah, Succariyeh said that the Orthodox plan “will drive Lebanon into a sectarian federal system and this will cause schisms within Lebanese society [and [...]

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Vatican lights Christmas tree from Ukraine

December 18, 2011 News

17/12/2011 VATICAN CITY The Vatican on Friday lit its traditional St. Peter’s Square Christmas tree, which, this year, came as a gift from Ukraine. Hundreds of bulbs glowed among the 2,500 silver-and gold-coloured baubles decorating the tree — a spruce from Ukraine’s southwestern Zakarpattia region. The lighting ceremony was presided over by a delegation of [...]

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Settlers breach closed Israeli military zone near Jordan

December 18, 2011 News

14/12/2011 OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Agencies) – Some 30 Jewish settlers broke into a Christian baptismal site late Monday in a closed military zone along the Jordanian-Israeli border to stage a protest, Agence France-Presse reported. The Associated Press reported that the radical settlers cut a fence to enter the closed military zone along the border with Jordan [...]

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First service held in Russian Orthodox Church

December 18, 2011 Featured News
Father Oleg delivers his sermon

The Phuket News 18/12/2011 PHUKET: Some 50 members of the Russian community in Phuket today (December 18) attended the first service held in the recently dedicated Russian Orthodox Church, just north of Thalang Town. The Church of the Holy Trinity Church, built to the classic cross-shaped plan and topped with a gold onion-shaped dome, sits [...]

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Maronite leaders approve Orthodox draft electoral law

December 18, 2011 News

The Daily Star 16/12/2011 BKIRKI/BEIRUT: Maronite leaders agreed Friday to support the Orthodox Gathering’s draft electoral law, and designated a committee to discuss the proposed law with Lebanese officials. A gathering of the leaders “agreed to designate [its] committee to begin negotiations with all parties over the Orthodox Gathering’s proposal, which the attendees consider a [...]

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