Monday, March 26, 2012

90% of Christians Driven Out of Homs, Syria

March 26, 2012 Featured News

26/3/2012 Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker Assyrian International News Agency President Obama condemned the Syrian government for trying to protect Alawites, Christians, the role of women in society, and all Syrians who oppose Sunni Islamic radicalism. President Obama commented that “I strongly condemn the Syrian government’s unspeakable assault against the people of Homs.” However, [...]

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Obama, Erdogan discuss Karabakh, Armenian Genocide bills at Seoul talks

March 26, 2012 News
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan (left) and U.S. President Barack Obama

Photo: www.sabah.com.tr 26/3/2012 Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has suggested to U.S. President Barack Obama that Turkey and the OSCE Minsk Group join efforts in solving the long-standing Karabakh conflict. Meeting in Seoul, South Korea, on Sunday, ahead of the Nuclear Security Summit, the two leaders reportedly focused on the current situation around Syria, but [...]

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Turkey’s Armenian Deputy Patriarch attends Vatican’s former rep. funeral

March 26, 2012 News

26/3/2012 PanARMENIAN.Net – According to Sunday’s Zaman, leaders and representatives of Turkey’s various religious communities attended the funeral of Monsignor Georges Marovitch, a former Vatican diplomatic official in Turkey, who passed away on March 22 morning at the age of 81. Roman Catholic Bishop Louis-Armel Pelâtre, the apostolic vicar of Istanbul, as well as Turkey’s [...]

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Montenegro “wants to humiliate SPC”

March 26, 2012 Featured News
Metropolitan Amfilohije Radović

26/3/2012 PODGORICA — Metropolitan of Montenegro and the Littoral Amfilohije Radović has stated that Montenegro wants to humiliate the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC). He explained that requests to register the SPC in Montenegro and “persecution of its priests” were an attempt to humiliate the SPC. Amfilohije said that people from the Social Democratic Party were [...]

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Greek Independence Day Celebration at the White House

March 26, 2012 News

(photos © D. Panagos/GOA) 24/3/2012 Greek Church in USA ARCHBISHOP DEMETRIOS EMPHASIZES NEED FOR SUPPORT TO GREECE IN THE WHITE HOUSE ANNUAL GREEK INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Vice-President Joe Biden welcomed yesterday evening (Thursday, March 22, 2012) at the White House His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios of America and the Greek-American [...]

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The Orthodox Coptic Pope: What’s Next for the Coptic Church?

March 26, 2012 Featured News

By Nader Habib 26/3/2012 After the passing of Pope Shenouda III as leader of Egypt’s Coptic Church last Saturday, attention has now turned to who will succeed him as the spiritual leader of the country’s Christian community, especially at the present critical time in Egypt’s history when the country is going through various political, social [...]

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Russian Patriarch Says Punk Band ‘Desecrated’ Church

March 26, 2012 News
Yekaterina Samutsevich, a member of the punk band Pussy Riot, appears in Tagansky District Court, Moscow.

25/3/2012 Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill says a female punk band desecrated the Cathedral of Christ the Savior when they stormed the church and performed. Members of the band Pussy Riot said the action on February 4 was to protest the patriarch’s support for Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin who won reelection as president on March [...]

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‘Satta Massagana’, The Sufferer’s Song … Initially Called ‘Far, Far Away’

March 26, 2012 News

Mel Cooke, Sunday Gleaner Writer 25/3/2012 “There is a land Far, far away Where there is no night There is only day Look into the book of life and you will see That there is a land, far, far away Satta Massagana Ahamlack, Ulaghize – Sattamassagana, The Abyssinians Satta Massagana is an undeniable anthem of [...]

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Ethiopian Regime war on ancient Ethiopian Monasteries

March 26, 2012 News

Ethiopian Heritage Society of North America 25/3/2012 Ethiopian Heritage Society Alarmed by Government Plans In yet another egregious assault on its own Ethiopian citizens, the regime of Prime Minister Melees Zenawi and the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) are preparing to raze 18 ancient churches, to bulldoze the surrounding forests and pastures, and to force [...]

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HIS HOLINESS ARAM I BLESSES WITH THE RELIC OF THE RIGHT HAND OF SAINT GREGORY THE ILLUMINATOR THOUSANDS OF PILGRIMS AT THE CATHOLICOSATE OF CILICIA

March 26, 2012 Featured News

26/3/2012 The feast of the entrance of St. Gregory the Illuminator to Khor Virab (the ‘deep well’) is also a time of pilgrimage to the St. Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral at the Catholicosate of Cilicia. St Thaddeus and Bartholomew are the founders of the Armenian Church. St. Gregory played a leading role in the conversion [...]

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TO THE ATTENTION OF ARMENIAN PUBLISHERS AND WRITERS IN DIASPORA

March 26, 2012 News

24/6/2012 Every year in November, the Catholicosate of Cilicia organizes a book fair under the auspices of His Holiness Aram I. All books in Armenian published in Lebanon and the countries in the region participate. The exhibition also includes books in foreign languages written about Armenians and Armenian issues. Based on the success of the [...]

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