Monday, February 13, 2012

Greek community flies flag to help homeland

February 13, 2012 Featured News
Leonidas Vlahakis is just one of many Australians of Greek descent sending money to relatives facing difficulties overseas. Photo: Angela Wylie

Carolyn Webb 14/2/2012 LEADERS of Melbourne’s Greek community will meet to thrash out ways to help loved ones suffering under Greece’s worsening economic crisis. Greek-Australians told of sending money to relatives struggling under slashed pensions and high unemployment, and also of offering shelter. The February 28 meeting, organised by the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne [...]

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Unknown perpetrators desecrate church in Kosovo

February 13, 2012 News

Tanjug 12/2/2012 Unkown vandals have desecrated a Serb church in an eastern Kosovo town and stole a certain amount of money and a number of sacred objects they found inside. Unkown vandals have desecrated a Serb church in an eastern Kosovo town and stole a certain amount of money and a number of sacred objects [...]

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Metropolitan Volodymyr blessed the collection of signatures campaign for return of religious building of the Pochayiv Lavra of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church

February 13, 2012 News

12/2/2012 On November 8 His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine was visited by Archbishop Volodymyr of Pochayiv at the hospital, where he undergoes rehabilitation treatment. At the request of the Spiritual synaxis of Pochayiv Monastery, Metropolitan Volodymyr blessed to turn to the ruling bishops of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on the collection [...]

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Trndez: Christian Armenians celebrate feast of purification

February 13, 2012 News

By Lilit Arakelyan ArmeniaNow intern 13/2/2012 Traditionally Armenians make a bonfire, go round it and jump over the fire on the evening of February 13 or early on February 14 when the Armenian Church celebrates the Candlemas Day, or Tiarn’ndaraj (Trndez), which is one of the most beloved holidays among newly-weds. This is a joyful [...]

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Syrian Christians Fear Genocide if al-Assad Falls to Muslim Extremists

February 13, 2012 News

BRUCE WALKER 10/2/2012 Catholic bishops are warning that if the Bashar al-Assad (left) regime in Syria falls to Islamists, there may well be a mass genocide of Christians, such as seen in Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Though Christians cannot support the brutality of the Assad dictatorship, few believe that rule by Muslim [...]

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Emergency Assistance to Syrian IDPs and Refugees

February 13, 2012 News

13/2/2012 1.Brief description of the emergency Since March 2011, anti-government protests in Syria continue to grow and have led to military actions between armed groups and government forces resulting in internal displacement of Syrian civilians throughout the country, as well as a rise in the number of Syrian refugees in the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, [...]

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Egypt and Syria: Two Civilizational Struggles

February 13, 2012 News

13/2/2012 Assyrian International News Agency The rapidly changing Middle East is witnessing convulsions which are indeed revolutionary when it comes to alliances. After all, in Libya you had NATO, Sunni Islamists and a mixture of other forces fighting on the same side against Colonel Gaddafi. Likewise in Syria which is the last remaining major bastion [...]

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Building mosques to restore churches

February 13, 2012 Featured News

13/2/2012 Georgian church On February 9, the Georgian Patriarchate released a statement condemning a recent agreement between the Georgian and Turkish governments, on the restoration of religious sites on one another’s sovereign territory. The Georgian government has consented to build a new mosque in Batumi, in exchange for restoration work to be conducted on the [...]

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