Wednesday, February 8, 2012

“CONCILIARITY NEEDS TO BE REVISITED BY THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT” H.H. ARAM I

February 8, 2012 News

7/2/2012 Addressing to the gathering of the General Secretaries of the regional and national ecumenical councils, His Holiness Aram I emphasized “the pivotal importance of reactivating ecumenical conciliarity considering it crucial for the future course of the ecumenical movement”. Catholicos Aram I considered the General Secretaries “not only administrators dealing with day to day administration [...]

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FATHER FEODOR KONYUKHOV TO CLIMB MOUNT EVEREST AGAIN, HOPES TO PLANT CROSS

February 8, 2012 Featured News

2/2/2012 Priest and traveler Feodor Konyukhov decided to equip an expedition to Mount Everest. “This year it will become 20 years since we climbed Mount Everest as members of the Avtovaz expedition. I’d like to follow this path one more time and climb the top, and if God allows—to set up a small Orthodox cross [...]

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THE FIRST CHURCH IN THE WORLD DEDICATED TO THE HOLY NEW MARTYRS AND CONFESSORS OF RUSSIA MARKS ITS 30TH ANNIVERSARY

February 8, 2012 News

6/2/2012 On Sunday, February 5, 2012, the Synaxis of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia, His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion of Eastern America and New York, visited the first church in the world dedicated to the saints with the Kursk-Root Icon of the Mother [...]

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Few Japanese wish to baptize, the country’s Orthodox leader regrets

February 8, 2012 Featured News
Metropolitan Daniel of Tokyo and all Japan

The Japanese Orthodox Church 8/2/2012 *** He can’t find a successor Moscow, February 6, Interfax – The Japanese Autonomous Orthodox Church faces problems in its mission: people in the “land of the rising sun” do not hurry to baptize. “We have newly converted believers, who have been baptized. But the majority of the baptized are [...]

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Religious leaders call for unity at a time of Arab uprisings

February 8, 2012 News

The Daily Star 8/2/2012 BEIRUT: Lebanon’s top Christian and Muslim leaders called Tuesday for national unity in light of the difficult circumstances in Lebanon and the Arab world. They also appealed to the Lebanese government to brush aside political differences among its members and address urgent national and socio-economic issues. The religious leaders’ appeal came [...]

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Mar Maroun celebrations a unifying source for Christians

February 8, 2012 News
Decorating Ain al-Rumanneh’s Mar Maroun church to mark the anniversary of the Syriac monk. (The Daily Star)

By Alex Taylor The Daily Star 8/2/2012 BEIRUT: It is perhaps ironic that the feast day of saint who spent his life in isolation is today credited with bringing Christians together, but that is exactly what Mar Maroun Day on Feb. 9 does. An official holiday in Lebanon, Mar Maroun Day celebrates the life and [...]

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Orthodox Christians in fear of ‘utter chaos’ seek refuge in prayer

February 8, 2012 Featured News
Sr Verona, head of the Saydnaya convent, in a room in the convent that was damaged in a recent mortar attack. Photograph: Bassem Tellawi/AP

8/2/2012 Members of a Syrian convent believe many interests are seeking to sabotage their country, writes MICHAEL JANSEN in Saydnaya THE ORTHODOX convent of Our Lady of Saydnaya sits four-square on a hilltop an hour’s drive from Damascus. The convent dominates the town of Saydnaya, inhabited by Christians known for piety. Our minibus, carrying a [...]

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Head of Belarusian Orthodox Church supports cause of the Cuban Five

February 8, 2012 News

Havana, Cuba, Feb 8.- The head of the Belarusian Orthodox Church, Kiril Vajromeev, has expressed interest to join the cause for the liberation of the five Cuban prisoners held in the United States since 1998. 8/2/2012 During a meeting with the Cuban ambassador in Minsk, Alfredo Nieves, the religious leader endorsed the Cuba’s right to [...]

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Putin promises to protect Christianity Worldwide

February 8, 2012 Featured News

8/2/2012 Presidential candidate Vladimir Putin has promised to make the protection of repressed Christians in foreign countries one of his foreign policy priorities if he becomes president again. When Putin met with the representatives of Russia’s traditional confessions in Moscow’s main cathedral on Wednesday, the representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church told him that Christians [...]

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Filaret asks Yanukovych to prevent transfer of Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Pochayiv Lavra to Moscow Patriarchate

February 8, 2012 Featured News

8/2/2012 Head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Kyiv Patriarchate) Filaret has called on Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych to prevent the transfer of some national holy places to the Moscow Patriarchate by parliament. “I’m addressing you as a guarantor of constitutional rights on behalf of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Kyiv Patriarchate, with a strong request [...]

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