Friday, February 10, 2012

62 Coptic Christian Families Forcibly Evicted by Salafi Muslims

February 10, 2012 Featured News
Coptic Christians demonstrating against persecution

By Asia News 10/2/2012 Salafi Muslims in the area of el-Amerya, with the complicity of the police and state authorities, set fire to Christian homes and shops, and forced several families to leave the country under the threat of further violence. On 30 January a crowd of Muslims attacked the village of Kobry- el-Sharbat for [...]

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St. Vladimir’s Seminary presents “ORIENT: Sacred Song and Image”

February 10, 2012 Featured News

10/2/2012 Tickets are $25, and may be purchased online here. Your printed registration form will serve as your admission ticket. [SVOTS Communications, Yonkers, NY]On Monday evening, May 7, 2012, St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary is hosting an exquisite evening of liturgical music sung in the traditional styles of Orthodox Christian churches worldwide. In a multi-media [...]

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Plans are ready for restoring 2 Armenian churches in Malatya, Turkey

February 10, 2012 News

9/2/2012 The Provincial Hall of Turkey’s Malatya Province completed its plan for the restoration of two Armenian churches in the Province, and it sent the plan for the approval of Sivas (Sebastia) Regional Council for the Preservation of Cultural Values. The churches included in this restoration plan are Malatya’s 250-year old Tashoron (Surb …

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Turkish Armenians concerned over fate of ancestral sites

February 10, 2012 News

10.02.12 In Malatya, Turkey, the recent demolition of a “Final Prayer” chapel at an Armenian cemetery has spurred Armenian-Turks into action about other at-risk sites all around the country. “We used to have graves that are thousands of years old across Anatolia, but they were either paved over with roads or new buildings were erected [...]

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Religious Leaders Back Putin For President

February 10, 2012 News

9/2/2012 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took a “vacation day” on February 8 to meet as a presidential candidate with religious leaders at the Danilov Monastery in Moscow, where the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, characterized Putin’s time in charge of Russia as a “miracle.” The patriarch told Putin religious leaders wanted [...]

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A church consecrated in the Monastery of the Dormition in Thailand

February 10, 2012 News

On February 9, 2012, Archbishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, director of the Moscow Patriarchate’s office for institutions abroad, who is on a visit to Thailand, consecrated the church dedicated to the Dormition of the Mother of God at the Monastery of the Dormition in Ratchaburi. With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church attend Prime Minister Putin’s meeting with leaders of traditional religious communities in Russia

February 10, 2012 News

On 8 February 2012, presidential nominee Vladimir Putin, currently Russian Prime Minister, met with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia and with leaders of traditional religious communities in Russia. The meeting, initiated by the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, took place at the official Patriarchal residence in St. Daniel’s Monastery. As [...]

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Armenian Catholicos and Christian Conference of Asia Secretary General discuss interreligious dialogue

February 10, 2012 News

9/2/2012 Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia of Armenian Apostolic Church Aram I met with Christian Conference of Asia Secretary General Rev. Dr. Henriette Lebang on Thursday. The parties discussed issues and challenges confronting inter-church movement and especially the current situation of Asian inter-church movement. Lebang gave invitations to Aram I for inter-church congresses [...]

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Syria: Christians Caught Between Two Fires, See Iran’s Hand

February 10, 2012 News

10/2/2012 MISNA “Of course Syrian Christians are afraid. They have much to lose and they know it, Even if this absurd conflict that pits brothers against each other, Christians have nothing to do with it and they will be the ones, as a minority, who may have to pay the highest price of this absurd [...]

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80th Dhukrono of St. Ignatious Elias III, Patriarch of Antioch & All the East (Pilgrimage Snaps)

February 10, 2012 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India (SOCI) 10/2/2012 Source:

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Judean Desert Draws In Tourists

February 10, 2012 Featured News

BY DANIELA BERRETTA 9/2/2012 JERICHO, West Bank — Located between Jerusalem and Jericho, the Judean Desert provided an inspiration to thousands of hermits who lived here in the early Middle Ages. With its breathtaking, rugged beauty, it was the perfect setting for those searching spiritual fullness in the emptiness of the desert. Today only a [...]

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Church attacks on the rise

February 10, 2012 News

10/2/2012 India KOCHI: The attack by miscreants on Mor Gregorios Abdul Jaleel Church in North Paravoor on Wednesday should set alarm bells ringing in a state that claims impeccable secular credentials. Kerala has already found itself fourth in a list of states with the highest intolerance level. There were 10 attacks against Christian missionaries and [...]

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Future of MGOCSM in the Diaspora

February 10, 2012 News

8/2/2012 Indian Orthodox Church February 8: The second Satsangh of this semester held on February 8, concentrated on the future of the MGOCSM in the diaspora. The chief resource person for this Satsangh were H.G. Dr. Abraham Mar Seraphim and Mr. Liju Varghese. The Satsangh was graced by the presence of eminent personalities like H. [...]

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