Monday, April 2, 2012

London Mission opens with a baptism

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The British Orthodox Church (Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate) 2/4/2012 The first Liturgy to be celebrated for the new British Orthodox London Mission of SS. George & Paul the Hermit was preceded by a baptism. On 31 March at St. George-in-the-East, Shadwell, Abba Seraphim baptised, Athanasios, the infant son of Father Yonas Tesheme, one of the priests [...]

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CHURCH-MONUMENT of Archangel Michael. City of Dalian

April 2, 2012 News
Panorama of the Russian cemetery

Chinese Orthodox Church Levoshko S.S. English translation by Katherine Ilachinski 2/4/2012 The Chapel in the city of Dalian was until 1902 at the Russian cemetery, which existed in the newly built city as the public cemetery. During the Russo-Japanese War, when they began to bury the dead soldiers, the chapel has acquired the status of [...]

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Egyptian Copts abandon constitution talks

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Supporters of a Salafist presidential candidate in Cairo on March 30, 2012.

2/4/2012 Reuters Country’s liberals, Christians decide to boycott the committee drafting Egypt’s new constitution, which they say is dominated by Islamists. Egypt’s Coptic Orthodox Church has announced it is withdrawing from talks on a new constitution, saying Islamist domination of the drafting body has made its participation “pointless,” Egypt’s state news agency said. The decision [...]

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Shoah Foundation to archive testimonies from Armenian Genocide survivors

April 2, 2012 Featured News
Steven Smith and Jerry Papazian work with SHOAH Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California, which is archiving eyewitness accounts of survivors of the Armenian Genocide. (John McCoy/Staff Photographer)

By Susan Abram Staff Writer 4/4/2012 The question would forever link one crime against humanity to another. “Our war aim does not consist in reaching certain lines, but in the physical destruction of the enemy,” Adolf Hitler said in his 1939 speech to justify his proposed invasion of Poland. “Only thus shall we gain the [...]

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Sheikha Fraiha endorses Armenian Church demands

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KUWAIT: Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with members of the Armenian community during the visit. —Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

2/4/2012 KUWAIT: Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah announced that she will continue supporting efforts of the Armenian community in Kuwait to have a piece of land licensed for building an Armenian Apostolic Church in the country. Sheikha Fraiha, who is the chairperson of the Kuwait Society for Ideal Family, announced her endorsement during a ceremony held [...]

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President of the Republic of Srpska and Minister of Finance of BiH visit Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina

April 2, 2012 News

1/4/2012 Serbian Church Diocese of Zahumlje-Herzegovina was visited by Milorad Dodik, President of the Republic of Srpska and Nikola Spiric, Minister of Finance and Treasury of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The guests were welcomed by His Grace Bishop Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina with associates and informed them about works on the restoration of the Cathedral church, the [...]

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Young filmmaker hopes to capture the spirituality of Orthodox Natives in the North

April 2, 2012 News

By MIKE DUNHAM Anchorage Daily News 1/4/2012 Dmitry Trakovsky wasn’t quite sure what he’d seen when he visited Alaska last August. The 26-year-old moviemaker from California had gotten on the art film map with his first feature documentary, “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky,” which premiered at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in 2009. Now he had [...]

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