Saturday, March 3, 2012

Turkey’s Syriacs Lay Out Vision for New Constitution

March 3, 2012 Featured News
A restored Syrian Orthodox Church in Turkey (2010)

3/3/2012 In an unprecedented move, the political and community representatives of the Syriac Christians visited parliament this week to express their demands for a new civil constitution. The delegation, consisting of representatives of the European Syriac Union (ESU), Federation of Syriac Associations in Turkey, Mezo-Der and the Federation of Syriac People in Germany (HSA), outlined [...]

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Announcement from OCA Concerning the storms affecting much of the US

March 3, 2012 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 3/3/2012 As widely reported — and experienced — much of the eastern half of the US, including many states within the Orthodox Church in America’s Diocese of the South, although not limited thereto — have been affected by the unprecedented string of tornadoes that stretch from the Mississippi Delta to the Northeast. [...]

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Honoring The Extraordinary Religious History Of The Syrian City Of Homs

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Lucas Van RompayChair, Department of Religion, Duke University 3/3/2012 To many, Syria’s third largest city was largely unknown until it became, in recent weeks, the site of a bloody siege pitting rebels against government forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. In fact, Homs has a rich and variegated history that adds a special dimension to [...]

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US Congressmen applied to H. Clinton: support to return Armenian Churches in Javakhk

March 3, 2012 News

3/3/2012 US Congressmen applied to the US State Secretary Hilary Clinton with an issue connected with Armenia once more. As asbarez.com writes quoting to the ANCA during testimony before two key U.S. House Committees Wednesday, H. Clinton was pressed on a range of concerns to Armenian Americans, including, most prominently, her recent remarks misrepresenting the [...]

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About a Slice of History

March 3, 2012 News

BY CATHERINE YESAYAN 2/3/2012 Learning a slice of history from the city of Tabriz, where Armenians have thrived for centuries, is one of the attractions of a special March 10 banquet planned by “Jan Tavriz.” The group strives to preserve Armenian heritage in Tabriz and in the northwestern region of Iran known as the province [...]

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At stake, a Damascus bond – Why fate of uprising will have a bearing on many Indians

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K.P. NAYAR IN DAMASCUS 3/3/2012 Much more is at stake for the people of India than for their government in New Delhi in the current uprising against Syria’s Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party and the country’s President, Bashar al Assad. If Assad is overwhelmed by the ongoing rebellion against him, it may be the end of [...]

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Armenia’s Supreme Spiritual Council holds meeting in extended format

March 3, 2012 News

3/3/2012 Armenia’s Supreme Spiritual Council meeting in extended format took place at the Holy See in St. Etchmiadzin led by all Armenian Catholicos Karekin II. The Supreme Spiritual Council heard Georgia’s Armenian Diocese leader Bishop Mirzakhanyan who presented the Armenian sanctuaries’ condition in Georgia. The council also touched upon the anti-Armenian report representing the Hojalu [...]

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A City Under Siege

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Adem Altan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images A cinema in Ankara, Turkey, on Feb. 27. The film “Fetih 1453,” or “Conquest 1453,” has proven enormously popular with moviegoers in the country. 3/3/2012 ISTANBUL — These days the answer to “they don’t make ’em like that anymore” is “Conquest 1453,” the new spear-and-molten-pitch swashbuckler movie that has [...]

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Syria’s Greek patriarch opposes foreign intervention

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3/3/2012 The leader of Greek Orthodox Christians in Syria opposes any foreign intervention in the country, saying it would be harmful to both Christians and Muslims, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Ignatius IV Hazim, patriarch of Antioch and All the East, said “the harmful effects of any foreign intervention in our affairs would touch Christians [...]

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Orthodox Church Is Losing Belarus

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1/3/2012 Belarus is turning away from the Orthodox Church. That is what statistics presented last week by Lieanid Huliaka, the Commissioner for Religions and Nationalities suggests. Belarusian protestants are the most active churchgoers, while Orthodox Christians are the least active. Only state support allows the Orthodox Church to keep up the appearance that it dominates [...]

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Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Visits Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul

March 3, 2012 News

By Stella Tsolakidou 1/3/2012 Greek Deputy Foreign Minister, D. Dollis, held a meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Fener, Istanbul, earlier Thursday morning, in which the two men discussed issues concerning the international activities of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The Greek deputy also congratulated His All Holiness for his 72nd birthday. Having completed his formal visit [...]

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President of the Lebanese Republic on a Visit to the Romanian Patriarchate

March 3, 2012 News

1/3/2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 29 February 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel received at the Patriarchal Palace His Excellency Michel Sleiman, President of the Lebanese Republic, who is paying an official visit to Romania. The President of Lebanon thanked for reception and appreciated the very good traditional relations between [...]

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Canon of Saint Andrew the Cretan at the Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral

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2/3/2012 The Fourth Day of the Canon of Saint Andrew the Cretan at the Patriarchal Cathedral On the fourth day of the Holy Easter Lent the last part of the Canon of Saint Andrew the Cretan was celebrated at the Patriarchal Cathedral by His Grace Varsanufie Prahoveanul, Assistant Bishop to the Archdiocese of Bucharest, in [...]

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Glasul Bisericii is Heard by the People with Big Soul

March 3, 2012 News

22nd february 2012 The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: We give the following explanations on the articles entitled The Press Trust of the Romanian Orthodox Church and Why does the Romanian Orthodox Church is Dumb?: The press articles published by HOT NEWS make a presentation obviously tendentious and lacunal of the Basilica [...]

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Egypt’s Coptic Christians’ uphill battle

March 3, 2012 News

Joseph Mayton 2/3/2012 CAIRO: Christians in Egypt are no strangers to sectarian violence, and even after the hopeful solidarity shown in the first waves of the January 25 Revolution, the past year has nonetheless witnessed a number of attacks on churches from the districts of Imbaba in Cairo to Aswan in the south. The governing [...]

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Paris Mayor Calls Design for Orthodox Church ‘Mediocre’

March 3, 2012 News

2/3/2012 PARIS — Paris Mayor Bernard DelanoС described a Russian Orthodox church to be built along the Seine River as “hodgepodge architecture,” not worthy to be near the Eiffel Tower. DelanoС said the project, a gleaming white church with five golden domes topped by a glass roof linking it to a spiritual and cultural center, [...]

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Orthodox Church calls for punishing performers, organizers of stunt at Christ the Savior Cathedral

March 3, 2012 News

Moscow, March 1, Interfax – The Russian Orthodox Church believes all those connected with a recent extravagant performance at the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow should be identified and strictly punished. “It is difficult to say what motives those girls were guided by. But this needs to be found out. I think all the [...]

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