Tuesday, February 28, 2012

New find revives ‘Jesus Tomb’ flap

February 28, 2012 Featured News
One of the designs etched on a bone box found within a 1st-century Jerusalem tomb suggests the biblical story of Jonah and the fish, which held significant symbolism for early Christians.

By Alan Boyle 28/2/2012 Using a remote-controlled camera on the end of a robotic arm, investigators have found what could be the earliest evidence of a Christian iconography in Jerusalem, engraved on a set of “bone boxes” inside a nearly intact 1st-century tomb. One of the limestone boxes, known more formally as an ossuary, carries [...]

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Lebanon held commemoration event to honor victims of Sumgait massacres

February 28, 2012 Featured News

28/2/2012 BEIRUT. – All Armenian churches in Lebanon held commemoration liturgy for the victims of Sumgait massacres on Feb. 26. After the liturgy in the Antelias Armenian church, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I and Armenia’s Ambassador to Lebanon Ashot Kocharyan delivered speeches. The Ambassador stated in particular that the severest ethnic [...]

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Aram I: Armenians’ Genocide reparation demand valid

February 28, 2012 Featured News

28/2/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – His Holiness Aram I, Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia delivered concluding remarks to the international conference on the Armenian Genocide in Lebanon. “As experts in human rights, international law and the Armenian Genocide, you have analyzed and affirmed, through your presentations and discussions, that the demand of the Armenian people [...]

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ANCA chairman calls for justice for Genocide

February 28, 2012 News

28/2/2012 Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA) Chairman Ken Hachikian offered a broad vision of how Return of Churches movement reflects and also materially reinforces the broader international movement to hold the Republic of Turkey responsible for a truthful, just, and comprehensive resolution of the Armenian Genocide. Hackikian offered his remarks, at the recently concluded [...]

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International Conference to Honor Fr. John Meyendorff Held at St. Sergius Institute

February 28, 2012 Featured News
Fr. John Meyendorff

28/2/2012 [SVOTS Communications, Yonkers, NY] From 9–11 February, 2012, an international conference was held at St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris, France, to honor the 20th anniversary of the passing away of the theologian and church historian Protopresbyter John Meyendorff, who was Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary from 1983 until 1992. The four sessions, [...]

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Dr. Vladimir Gorbik to Lead Choral Master Class at St. Vladimir’s Seminary

February 28, 2012 News

27/2/2012 [SVOTS Communications, Yonkers, NY] An unprecedented Master Class and Choral Workshop, led by Dr. Vladimir Gorbik—a renowned teacher of the Russian Orthodox sacred music tradition, and a leading practitioner of sacred choral music in Russia today—will be held at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Yonkers, NY from June 25–29, 2012. Dr. Gorbik will instruct participants in [...]

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Church of Holy Girdle of St Mary in Homs Bombed

February 28, 2012 Featured News

26/2/12 Church of Holy Girdle of St Mary in Homs Bombed. May God protect our Church of Holy Girdle of St Mary in Homs and our beloved archbishop HG Mor Selwanos Boutros Alnemeh. Let us never forget our brothers and sisters who live in countries where they can risk being persecuted. They are part of [...]

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Eastern Christians and the Arab Spring – Alain Juppé’s column published by La Croix (February 28, 2012)

February 28, 2012 News

Alain Juppé 28/2/2012 The Eastern Christians are worried. Worried about their survival in a region they have lived in for 2,000 years. Worried about their rights being respected at a time of major upheaval. Worried about heightened religious tensions. I want to tell them that I understand them, that I understand their fears. For centuries, [...]

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Malankara Association meeting on March 7

February 28, 2012 Featured News

Indian Orthodox Church 28/2/2012 Malankara Syrian Christian Association, the supreme parliament of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church, will meet at the Catholicate College grounds here on March 7, according to Kuriakose Mar Cleemis, Metropolitan of the Thumpamon diocese of the Church. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, Mar Cleemis said the Malankara Syrian Christian [...]

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Muslims and Christians must also serve in IDF

February 28, 2012 News

By Moshe Arens 28.02.12 It was not right that the attention of the Tal Law’s cancellation has all been focused on the ultra-Orthodox community’s absence from the IDF, while the Muslim and Christian community has been effectively disregarded; equality is indivisible. If you’re an Israeli citizen who is ultra-Orthodox, Muslim or Christian, you’re exempt from [...]

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Hungarian Parliament adds eighteen religious orders to list of officially recognized churches; 66 rejected

February 28, 2012 News

BY MTI 28/2/2012 Hungarian parliament expanded the number of recognised churches from an initial 14 to 32 on Monday. The related amendment to the law on the legal status of churches, denominations and religious communities was approved by the deputies of the ruling majority, in the absence of opposition MPs. The 18 religious communities added [...]

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