Tuesday, January 3, 2012

Syriac Orthodox Church in India blessed with Three new Metropolitans

January 3, 2012 Featured News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India – SOCI 2/1/2012 Their Graces Mor Julius Elias (Gabriel Ramban), Mor Alexandrios Thomas (Barsoumo ramban/Thomas Nerianthara Kassesso) & Mor Polycarpus Zacharias (Shemavun Ramban/Scaria Kochillom Kassesso) consecrated as metropolitans today at Puthencuriz Cathedral. INDIA/KERALA/PUTHENCURIZ: Syriac Orthodox Church in India is blessed with three more Metropolitans. His Beatitude Catholicos of India, Dr. [...]

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Egyptian Bishop Warns of Another Massacre in Nag Hammadi‎

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By Mary Abdelmassih 31/12/2011 Assyrian International News Agency (AINA) — Bishop Kyrillos, the Coptic Orthodox bishop of Nag Hammadi, received last week several threats of attacks to be carried out on churches in Nag Hammadi, either on New Year’s Eve or Christmas Eve on January 6. “I do not want another Nag Hammadi Massacre to [...]

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Virginia Holocaust Museum to Develop Permanent Armenian Exhibit

January 3, 2012 News

By Aram Arkun Mirror-Spectator Staff 30/12/2011 RICHMOND, Va. — With only a handful of the 16 Holocaust and genocide museums and 150 Holocaust and genocide study centers in the US containing substantial sections devoted to the Armenian Genocide, the decision of the Virginia Holocaust Museum to develop a permanent exhibit on the Armenian Genocide is [...]

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Archbishop Aykazian: Turkey will apologize for Genocide

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3o/12/2011 Emil Sanamyan WASHINGTON – Archbishop Vicken Aykazian is the Washington-based Legate of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church and a prominent figure in international inter-faith dialogue. The Armenian Reporter’s Emil Sanamyan submitted questions to Archbishop Aykazian soon after his most recent trip to Turkey; the answers were then returned by e-mail. AR: What [...]

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Egypt: Islam: One year after the massacre of Christians in Alexandria, Egypt seeks a way forward

January 3, 2012 Featured News
Blood-spattered mural at Coptic Orthodox church in Egypt.

1/1/2012 The persecution against Christians mingled with violence against the Arab revolution. In a year more than 1000 dead, thousands injured, 1200 have lost one or both eyes, because the police shoot at eye level. One year has passed since the terrible massacre in the Church of the Two Saints, in Alexandria on New Year’s [...]

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