Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Kenyan Orthodox Family Seeking Help

January 11, 2012 Featured News

Beloved Readers and Well Wishers A Kenyan Orthodox family seeks financial help to educated their children. The family has joined Orthodox Church from one of the Kenyan tribes. Matuska Alice Mwangi and her husband Mark Mwangi Kibui (Orthodox Priest in Kenya) seeks genuine financial support to their sons to be sent to school.They are financially [...]

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The Diocese of Mexico: Forty Years of Ministry and Mission

January 11, 2012 Featured News

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO [OCA] 10/1/2012 Faithful arrived early at the Cathedral of the Ascension here on Sunday, January 8, 2012, as His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah presided at the Divine Liturgy and celebrated the Great Blessing of Water marking the diocese’s 40th anniversary. Concelebrating with Metropolitan Jonah were Bishop Alejo of Mexico; diocesan clergy from as [...]

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Syria’s Muslim, Christian clerics criticize rebels, sanctions

January 11, 2012 Featured News

Weedah Hamza 10/1/2012 Beirut (dpa) – Syria’s top Muslim cleric on Tuesday called on the rebel army to lay down its weapons, while a leading Christian archbishop criticized Western sanctions against the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. “I call on all those who have taken up arms to lay them down,” said Grand Mufti Sheikh [...]

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Εcumenical Patriarchate Denounces Russian Interference in the Ephraim Case

January 11, 2012 Featured News

By Stella Tsolakidou 11/1/2012 Τhe Ecumenical Patriarchate denounced the interference of the Russian Orthodox Church in the case of Abbot Ephraim of Vatopedi, after the Holy Synod concluded on Tuesday. In its official announcement, the Patriarchate points out that Mount Athos lies within the jurisdiction and borders of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and though it may [...]

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Constantinople patriarch receives head of Abkhazian Church

January 11, 2012 News

11/1/2012 The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, on Tuesday received a delegation of the Abkhazian Church headed by Archimandrite Doropheus Dbar, Ekho Moskvy reports. The parties discussed the status of the Abkhazian Church and its relations with the Church of Georgia. The Orthodox Church of Abkhazia is officially a part of the Georgian Orthodox [...]

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‘COMMON VALUES SHOULD BE THE CORE OF CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM CONVIVIALITY’ SAID ARAM I TO MUSLIM CLERICS

January 11, 2012 Featured News

01/09/2012 On Monday 9 January 2012, a delegation composed of Sunni and Shi’a clerics visited His Holiness Aram I. The visit lasted for more than an hour, during which they discussed the importance of strengthening relations between Christianity and Islam by emphasizing common religious values. His Holiness said. “As followers of Monotheistic religions, we …

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Leaders of churches ignored address of political prisoners’ families

January 11, 2012 News

10.01.2012 Only a pastor of Minsk charismatic church “New Life” has answered the open letter of wives and mothers of the prisoners of conscience in Belarus, published on the eve of Christmas. The requests of the women to come to the defence of their husbands were also addressed to the leader of the Belarusian Orthodox [...]

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