Friday, February 17, 2012

Hundreds pay last respects to Mar Osthathios

February 17, 2012 Featured News
PAYING TRIBUTES: Finance Minister, K.M.Mani, paying tributes to Geevarghese Mar Osthathios at the St Paul’s and St Peter’s Church at Parumala on Friday. Photo: Leju Kamal

17/2/2012 Indian Orthodox Church Hundreds of people, including women and children, assembled at the St Paul’s and St Peter’s Church at Parumala, Bethany Bishop’s House at Thiruvalla and at St Mary’s Church at Niranom on Friday to pay thier last respects to Dr Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, senior Metropolitan of Malankara Orthodox Church who passed away [...]

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Coptic activist returns to Egypt for Maspero investigation

February 17, 2012 Featured News
Coptic activist Michael Mounir

Manar Ammar 17/2/2012 CAIRO: Leading Coptic Christian activist Michael Mounir arrived back in Egypt on Friday after the prosecutor issued an investigation order for him and his name was put on a no travel list. Mounir, who was attending the Copts Abroad’s fourth convention in The Netherlands, said he cut his trip short and came [...]

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Coptic church in Egyptian village threatened after girl disappears

February 17, 2012 News

Ekram Ibrahim 15/2/2012 Muslim Brotherhood activists form human chain around a Sharqiya church in the central Delta valley after Coptic girl’s rumoured conversion to Islam and subsequent disappearance A church in the Nile Delta’s Sharqiya Governorate was subject to intermittent attacks this week after a Coptic-Christian girl allegedly converted to Islam before mysteriously disappearing. Rania [...]

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Armenian Church to receive new privilege

February 17, 2012 News

16/2/2012 YEREVAN. – The legalization payments will be exempt for Armenia’s churches and church structures which the individual benefactors had built, but without the appropriate formalities. The State Committee of Real Estate Cadastre presented such draft decision for the Government’s approval. And this matter is included on the Government’s session on Thursday. This decision refers [...]

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Christian Families in Syria in Urgent Need of Help, Trapped in Crossfire

February 17, 2012 Featured News
An unidentified Syrian Christian family in need of help during the Syria uprising is seen in this undated photo.

By Stoyan Zaimov,Christian Post Reporter 17/2/2012 The Syrian uprising against President Bashir al-Assad, which began almost a year ago, has put families in the region in serious danger, and Christians trapped in the crossfire are in critical need of help, a charity organization says. The uprising began last March when Syrians initiated protests against the [...]

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Steven Spielberg refutes reports about making movie on 100th anniversary of “Armenian genocide”

February 17, 2012 News

17-02-2012 Spokesman for famous film director: We are not going to make such a movie Armenian media reports that famous American film director Steven Spielberg will make a movie on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the “Armenian genocide” have been refuted. Marvin Levy, spokesman for Steven Spielberg told the Hurriyet newspaper that they [...]

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REMARKS AT A DINNER GIVEN BY THE PATRIARCH OF JERUSALEM

February 17, 2012 News

11/2/2012 Jerusalem Patriarchate Your Excellency, Mr. Ambassador, Your Beatitude Archbishop Chrysostomos Respected Members of the Staff of the Mission, Your Eminences, Ladies and Gentlemen, We bring you the greetings of the Church of Jerusalem and the Rum Orthodox Patriarchate, which by Divine Providence extends its pastoral mission throughout all Palestine. We are honoured to be [...]

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Ceremony regarding the Statehood Day

February 17, 2012 Featured News

16/2/2012 Serbian Church His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch accompanied by vicar Bishop Atanasije of Hvosno attended the central ceremony regarding the Statehood Day, which was held at the House of the National Assembly in Belgrade on February 15, 2012. On this occasion President of the Republic of Serbia Boris Tadic handed to prominent individuals and [...]

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Dr Dragutin Trickovic receives Order of Saint Sava of the Third degree

February 17, 2012 News

Serbian Church 16/2/2012 The Holy Holy Hierarchal Liturgy of the Serbian Orthodox Church gave primarius Dr Dragutin Trickovic, director of the Dr Vukan Čupić Mother and Child Health Care Institute of Serbia in New Belgrade, with the highest distinction of the Serbian Orthodox Church – Order of Saint Sava of the Third Degree, for active [...]

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The First Working Session Of The Holy Synod In 2012

February 17, 2012 News

Romanian Church On 16 February 2012, the Holy Synod met for the first time in 2012. The meeting of the Holy Synod takes place in the Synodal Hall of the Patriarchal Residence under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. To start with the working session the Patriarch of Romania thanked God for the blessings [...]

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Annual Working Session of the Church National Assembly of the Romanian Orthodox Church

February 17, 2012 Featured News

15/2/2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 15 February 2012, the annual working session of the Church National Assembly took place in the Patriarch Teoctist rotunda of the Patriarchate Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel. During the working session the General annual report of the Church National Council [...]

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Meeting of the Church National Council

February 17, 2012 News

Romanian Church On 14 February 2012, the annual working session of the Church National Council of the Romanian Orthodox Church was held in the Synodal Hall of Patriarchal Residence, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Assistant Bishops to the Patriarch Ciprian Campineanul and Varlaam Ploiesteanul were also present. [...]

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A Meeting with a Syrian delegation takes place at the Department for External Church Relations

February 17, 2012 News

On February 16, 2012, DECR vice-chairmen Archpriest Nikolay Balashov and Hegumen Philaret (Bulekov) met with a Syrian delegation who came to Russia on the previous day. Participating the in meeting were Bishop Luke of Seydnaya, vicar of the Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, Sheikh Alaa Eddin Zateri and actors Mohammad Hadi Bagdounes and [...]

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Russian Church: Global war almost inescapable

February 17, 2012 News

Moscow, February 17, Interfax – The current global contradictions could deteriorate into a global war sooner or later, the Moscow Patriarchate said. “There are many processes ongoing in the world in which Russia should play a much more active role, since the economic and social contradictions that have cropped up in the world are so [...]

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Condoms and cigarettes sent to the Moscow Seminary as humanitarian help

February 17, 2012 News

Moscow, February 17, Interfax – The Moscow Patriarchate official one more time assuaged rumors that the Church sold tobacco and vodka in 1990s. “No vodka was sold. There was a humanitarian help, sometimes it came in form of wine and cigarettes. It was transferred to secular organizations. Secular organizations did with it whatever they wanted [...]

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