Sunday, April 1, 2012

Land Day Anniversary in Syria

April 1, 2012 News

(Dp-news – Sana) 1/4/2012 Syria – With the participation of crowds of Syrians in addition to representatives of Syrian, Palestinian, Arab and international sides, the activities of the Global March to al-Quds started on Friday in Damascus. In an open message to the participants, Archbishop Atallah Hanna, Archbishop of Sebaste Roman Orthodox in Jerusalem said [...]

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Scathing anti-Semitism pervades ‘Holey Land’ exhibition in Sweden

April 1, 2012 News
A poster of an exhibition at the Swedish Christian Study Center portraying Israelis as rats and the West Bank as cheese.

By Anna Ekström 1/4/2012 Art exhibition at Stockholm church accuses Jews and Israel of being inherently destructive. A picture of a Bible converted into a tank hangs before my eyes. The book with its cannon is on a rampage. No enemy can be seen. In the background is a meandering wall: the West Bank barrier. [...]

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Same-sex marriage bill reveals differences

April 1, 2012 News

Peter Jean 2/4/2012 Differences within Christian communities over gay marriage are being brought to the surface by a Senate inquiry into a Greens bill to permit same-sex marriages. Catholic Archbishop of Sydney Cardinal George Pell has made a submission to the inquiry supporting the traditional definition of marriage. But two of Sydney’s most high-profile Catholic [...]

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Kerala Christians observe Passion Week

April 1, 2012 News

1/4/2012 Thiruvananthapuram: Palm Sunday has ushered in Passion Week for Christians all over Kerala who are set to participate in the rituals that the holy week brings. The day is celebrated to commemorate Jesus Christ’s entry into Jerusalem on a donkey and it is said that people there lay down their cloaks and small branches [...]

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Church head to lead service

April 1, 2012 News
His Holiness Baselios Mar Thoma Paulose II Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan

1/4/2012 VISITING supreme head of the Indian Orthodox Church His Holiness Baselius Marthoma Paulose II will lead the Holy week services of St Mary’s Orthodox Cathedral this week. Palm Sunday was celebrated last night and Holy Easter will be celebrated on Saturday at the Bahrain Keraleeya Samajam in Segaiya from 6.15pm. Maundy Thursday service will [...]

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Russia: Orthodox Church Wants Lenin Inspected For Extremism

April 1, 2012 Featured News

31/3/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church has come up with an initiative to check the works of the founding fathers of bolshevism for extremism. “We have to discuss whether the works of Lenin, Trotsky and other Bolshevik leaders can be considered extremist,” says Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Head of Church External Relations. “How should we treat them [...]

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