April 2012

Armenian Apostolic church trying to save buildings in Moldova

April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 YEREVAN.- The Armenian Apostolic Church intends to return the territories belonging to it in Moldova. The church territories were soled several years ago. There is unfavorable situation in Chisinau, said head of Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin press service Vahram Melikyan when the Armenian News-NEWS.am reached him for comment. He told that the head [...]

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Armenian church in Turkey is used as garbage dump

April 29, 2012 Featured News

27/4/2012 The 11th-century Armenian church in Yenipinar village of Turkey’s Batman Province is used as a garbage dump by the locals. Village resident Ali Ucar noted that he is very troubled that the villagers are taking the ruined church’s stones and using them in their stables, Haberler news agency of Turkey informs. He stressed that [...]

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Russian Church Prepared to Send Monk Envoys to Kosovo

April 29, 2012 Featured News

29/4/2012 The Russian Church is ready to send monks as envoys to help Christians in Kosovo, said Russian Church external relations chair, metropolitan bishon Hilarion. Bishop Hilarion is part of a large Russian church delegation, headed by Patriarch Kirill, which is in in Bulgaria since Friday. “We support this idea and like we have …

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331th Dukhrono of St. Gregorios Abdul Jaleel

April 29, 2012 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India 27/4/2012 331th Dukhrono of St. Gregorios Abdul Jaleel at St. Thomas Syrian Orthodox Church North Paravoor, Kerala India. Brief History of St. Gregorios Abdul Jaleel St. Gregorios Abdul’ Galeel, the Syrian Orthodox Metropolitan of Jerusalem who came to India in AD.1665 on the request of the Malankara Church to reinstate [...]

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H.B Baseliose Thomas 1st laid the foundation stone for St.Gregoriose Cancer Research Centre

April 29, 2012 News

Syrian Orthodox Church in India India/Kerala/Chelad: H.B Baseliose Thomas 1st, Catholicose laid the stone for St.Gregoriose Cancer Research Centre,Chelad on 17th April 2012 in the eminent presence of H.G Mor Joseph Gregoriose Metropolitan(Holy Synod Secretary), H.G Mor Severiose Abraham Metropolitan, H.G Mor Ivaniose Mathews Metropolitan and in the Honarable presence of Sri.Anoop Jacob(Minister for …

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NEW INDIAN ORTHODOX CONGREGATION AT WOLLONGONG, SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA

April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 In commemoration of the Feast of St George, the St Thomas Indian orthodox CathedralSydney started another new congregation at Wollongong, South of Sydney on 28th April 2012. The new congregation was named “St George Indian Orthodox Congregation” after St George ,the Saint The first Holy Qurbana of the congregation was celebrated by Rev Fr [...]

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Russian Patriarch awarded honorary degree of University of Library Studies and Information Technology

April 29, 2012 News

29/4/2012 Sofia. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has been awarded an honorary degree of the University of Library Studies and Information Technology, FOCUS News Agency reported. The degree was presented by the university rector, professor Stoyan Denchev. Patriarch Kirill received also a gift from the university management – a picture of the Russian [...]

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Thousands of Bulgarians Meet Russian Patriarch in Plovdiv

April 29, 2012 Featured News

28/4/2012 Thousands of people met the head of the Russian Orthodox Church in the center of Bulgaria’s second largest city of Plovdiv, chanting “Russia” and accompanying clerics in their procession with church banners. Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, who arrived in Bulgaria on a visit on Friday, earlier on Saturday met with President [...]

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What is most important to Macedonian Orthodox Church is to return to canonical field, says Russian bishop

April 29, 2012 News

FOCUS News Agency 29/4/2012 Sofia. What is most important to the Macedonian Orthodox Church is for it to return to the canonical field, bishop Hilarion, Chairman of External Church Relations Department of the Moscow Patriarchate, said in an interview with Bulgarian National Radio. He says there are many models of church structure, which, without obligatory [...]

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Bethlehem’s last Christians?

April 29, 2012 News

28/4/2012 Op-ed: World, churches silent in face of Islamic persecution of Palestinian Christians. Veteran CBS News anchor Bob Simon just reported on the Palestinian Christians, indicting Israel’s “occupation” as responsible for their dramatic disappearance. The 60 Minutes story caused Israel tremendous PR damage. Yet largely ignored by Western media, a systematic campaign of Muslim persecution [...]

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3 candidates favoured for Coptic papal position: MENA

April 29, 2012 Featured News
Egyptian Bishops in front of Pope Shenouda III's coffin in his funeral "Photo:Reuters"

MENA 27/4/2012 The Egyptian Orthodox Church of Alexandria began receiving endorsements for the vacant position of pope on Friday from Bishops and the general congregation council. Judge Edward Ghaleb, a member of the Church’s general congregation council and candidacy committee told MENA that the committee was examining the endorsements in order to prepare a primary [...]

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Archbishop Demetrios with a letter to the US Secretary of State Ms. Hilary Clinton, requesting release of Archbishop Jovan

April 28, 2012 News

Serbian Church Orthodox Archbishopric of Ohrid 25/4/2012 The Archbishop of America of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople and Chairman of the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of North and Central America with seat in New York, Archbishop Demetrios, sent a letter to the US Secretary of State, Ms. Hilary Clinton, in which he expressed his [...]

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Church consecrated in Rooty Hill

April 28, 2012 News

Serbian Church Metropolitanate of Australia and New Zealand On Bright Saturday, on April 21, 2012, the restored church of St. Stephen the Hierodeacon was consecrated in Sidney’s suburb of Rooty Hill. The Holy Liturgy was served by Bishop Irinej of Australia-New Zealand, Bishop Longin of New Gracanica and Midwestern America and Bishop Seraphim of Apolonia [...]

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HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH KIRILL MEETS WITH HIS HOLINESS PATRIARCH MAXIM OF BULGARIA AND MEMBERS OF THE HOLY SYNOD OF THE BULGARIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH

April 28, 2012 Featured News

DECR Chairman 28/04 /2012 On 27 April 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met and talked with His Holiness Patriarch Maxim of Bulgaria and with members of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Church. Taking part in the meeting, which took place at the Synodal residence, were Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, [...]

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EGYPTIAN PANEL DROPS MASPERO MASSACRE CASE FOR ‘LACK OF EVIDENCE’

April 28, 2012 Featured News

On April 24 the panel of judges appointed by the Egyptian minister of justice to investigate the Maspero massacre of October 9, 2011, which claimed the lives of 27 Christians and injured 329, closed the case. In his explanation of the verdict, judge Sarwat Hammad said the case was closed for “lack of identification of [...]

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Inter-cultural dialogue through monasteries in Kosovo

April 27, 2012 Featured News

By Reverend Donald Reeves MBE 27/4/2012 Soul of Europe Website: The Orthodox monasteries and the municipalities of Peć and Dečani have to start creating the basis for healthy community relations in order to ensure that the former become centres of inter-cultural dialogue, rather than a focus for conflict. In early April, the president of the [...]

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Priests are people, too

April 27, 2012 News

© RIA Novosti. Iliya Pitalev Marc Bennetts 26/04/2012 Russia’s Orthodox Church has been at the center of a storm of controversy of late – from Pussy Riot’s anti-Putin “punk prayer” in Moscow’s largest cathedral to the comical “now you see it, now you don’t” saga of Patriarch Kirill’s luxury watch. Things have gotten so heated [...]

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A Letter to Etchmiadzin and Cilicia Catholicos

April 27, 2012 News

Nilay VARDAR nilay@bianet.org İstanbul – BİA Haber Merkezi 25/4/2012 The defenders of human rights sent a letter to Etchmiadzin and Cilicia Catholicos and declared that “Only after the recognition of the Genocide and the restitution of and/or compensation for the confiscated property of Armenians, that justice can be established.” The defenders of human rights sent [...]

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Patriarch Kirill plans several trips abroad in 2012

April 27, 2012 News

Moscow, April 25, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia plans several trips abroad this year, Metropolitan Hilarion, the head of the Synodal Church and Society Department, said at a press conference in Moscow. In particular, the Patriarch plans to go to Bulgaria on April 27-29, to Cyprus in June, to Poland in [...]

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Egypt Christians hold Liturgy in memory of late Pope Shenouda III

April 27, 2012 Featured News

Ahram Online 25/4/2012 Ritual marking 40 days since death of popular pope to be held at Cairo’s Abbasiya Cathedral and St Bishoy Monastery. Liturgy to mark 40 days since the death of Pope Shenouda III will take place Wednesday at Cairo’s Abbassiya Cathedral and the St Bishoy Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun where the pope is [...]

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Rebuilding Of St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Moves Forward

April 27, 2012 News
The old St. Nicholas Church – New York, NY (file / credit: Grisha Ressatar)

26/4/2012 NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – On September 11, 2001, the Twin Towers weren’t the only structures destroyed. The St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was also erased from Manhattan when the World Trade Center collapsed on it. Now, the effort to rebuild it is moving ahead, WCBS 880′s John Metaxas reports. “We have a plan and [...]

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Bulgarian and Russian orthodox churches can play role of a bridge between the two nations: Russian Patriarch

April 27, 2012 News

Focus News Agency 26/4/2012 Our two churches are brotherly churches, with very close historical, cultural and spiritual bonds, which date back into the past, Patriarch Kirill of Russia and All Moscow said in an interview with Bulgarian television TV7 ahead of his visit to Bulgaria between 27 and 29 April. Our two churches are brotherly [...]

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Supreme Head of Indian Orthodox Church visit Sheikh Zayed Mosque

April 27, 2012 Featured News

26/4/2012 WAM Abu Dhabi, Apr 26th, 2012 (WAM) — Yusuf Al Obaidli, Director of the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Centre received today morning St. Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma, Supreme Head of Malankara Indian Orthodox Church and the accompanying delegation on their visit to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque. This visit aims at familiarising with the [...]

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“I CALL UPON OUR PEOPLE TO DEMAND THEIR STOLEN RIGHTS FROM TURKEY” Said His Holiness Aram I

April 25, 2012 Featured News

The summary of the message of His Holiness Aram I delivered on 24th April 2012 in Antelias to thousands of Armenian people who were gathered to commemorate the Armenian Genocide. We are gathered today in front of the Martyrs Chapel, where the remains of some of the victims of the Armenian Genocide were buried in [...]

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Protocol of Collaboration between the Romanian Patriarchate and Two Ministries

April 25, 2012 News

On 24 April 2012, a Protocol of collaboration between the Ministry for Education, Research, Youth and Sport, the Romanian Patriarchate and the Ministry of the Interior and Administration was signed at the Patriarchate Palace, in Saint John Cassian room, for using the schools closed through merging for the pupils’ benefit. The meeting began around 19.00 [...]

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