Thursday, April 5, 2012

Sheikha sues Al-Tabtabaei over ‘church’ criticism

April 5, 2012 News

5/4/2012 KUWAIT: Sheikha Fraiha Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah is taking legal action against an Islamist lawmaker she accuses of verbal offense over statements in which he criticized building a new church for the Armenian Orthodox community in Kuwait. “Legal action will be taken against MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaei for his blatant and offensive attack against Sheikha Fraiha Al-Sabah, [...]

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Ancient monastery attacked by Israeli extremists

April 5, 2012 Featured News

By Lauren Gelfond Feldinger 4/4/2012 Continuing vandalism at religious sites prompts condemnation from religious communities and politicians. A medieval Greek Orthodox monastery in Jerusalem, one of the latest holy sites to be targeted in the region in an epidemic of vandalism, is at the centre of a diplomatic dispute between Greece and Georgia. In February, [...]

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GRAFFITI ON WALLS OF ORTHODOX CHURCH IN KOSOVO

April 5, 2012 News

Strpce 5/4/2012 Graffiti with offensive content and the letters UCCK (Kosovo Liberation Army) have been sprayed on the walls of the Church of Saint Apostles Peter and Paul in the Kosovo village of Brod, Caglavica-based KIM Radio has reported. Police of the Strpce municipality confirmed they were investigating the case. It is not known who [...]

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NBC to broadcast Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha

April 5, 2012 Featured News

5/4/2012 Flushing, N.Y., April 4, 2012 — The National Council of Churches, the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and the Interfaith Broadcasting Commission invite Easter worshippers to witness the Orthodox Christian Resurrection Service and Divine Liturgy of Pascha. The service, recorded live on Pascha 2011 at St. Nicholas Church in Flushing, N.Y., will be broadcast [...]

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The Actors Tell the World about the Saints of God

April 5, 2012 News

Romanian Patriarchate On 1 April 2012, the 5th Sunday of the Lent, the audio-book entitled “Life of Saint Mary the Egyptian” was launched at Radu Vodă Monastery of Bucharest – informs us “Lumina” newspaper. The saint’s life, with her way from sin to God, is available now to the Christians recorded on a CD, performed [...]

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Clergy confession of the Episcopal Deanery of Vracar-Grocka

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch served the Divine Liturgy of Presanctified Gifts in the church of Holy Trinity in Zaklopaca. On this occasion the confession of the clergy of the Episcopal Deanery of Vracar-Grocka. Source:

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Requiem for Repose of Souls of Syrian martyrs Held in Brazil

April 5, 2012 News

R. Raslan/ Ghossoun 5/4/2012 SAO PAULO, (SANA) – Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in Brazil, His Eminence Metropolitan Archbishop, Damaskinos Mansour, held a requiem for the repose of the souls of the Syrian martyrs. Participants in the requiem prayed for God to protect Syria and President Bashar al-Assad and to fortify the homeland in the [...]

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Hopes to Revive the Christian Area of Turkey

April 5, 2012 Featured News
Orthodox Christians at Sumela Monastery, 15 August 2010/Umit Bektas

By SUSANNE GÜSTEN 4/4/2012 IDIL, TURKEY — Clambering over the rubble of what was once his hometown, Robert Tutus pointed to a spot just up the road from where his family’s house had stood. “This is where my father was assassinated,” he said. “Two men walked up to him as he was returning home one [...]

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UN expert wants access to Cyprus’ religious sites

April 5, 2012 News

5/4/2012 NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — A U.N. expert says more needs to be done to allow worshippers free and unfettered access to religious sites on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus. Heiner Bielefeldt, U.N. special rapporteur on freedom of religion and belief, said Thursday the situation has improved some after crossings linking the island’s Turkish-speaking [...]

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Orthodox patriarch hits at “unacceptable” attacks on ecumenism

April 5, 2012 News

Jonathan Luxmoore 4/4/2012 (ENInews). The spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians has written to Greece’s Orthodox state church, deploring anti-ecumenical statements by its leaders. “Critical voices about ecumenism, long heard in the bosom of the church of Greece, have hitherto been limited in scope – but what has occurred recently has reached unacceptable levels,” [...]

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Abuna Michael meets President Obama

April 5, 2012 News

5/4/2012 Coptic Church in USA HG Bishop David of the Coptic Orthodox Archdiocese of N. America was invited to the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast today. Due to his travel & inability to attend, HG sent Abuna Michael on his behalf with a letter of gratitude to President Obama for his remembrance of the departure [...]

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Eroglu: Turkish Cypriots are more “pure” than the Greek Cypriots

April 5, 2012 News
Eroglu: There are Turkish people in Cyprus since 1571. We are more pure than the Greeks, because we know where we came from

FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE 5/4/2012 THE TURKISH CYPRIOT leader Dervis Eroglu has made one of his most provocative statements to date when he claimed Turkish Cypriots are more “pure” than the Greek Cypriots because “we know where we have come from, but I honestly do not know where they came from”. According to the daily Gunes newspaper, [...]

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Roman Catholic Church in Holy Land plans switch to Orthodox calendar for Easter

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 The Catholic churches of the Holy Land plan to observe Easter according to the Orthodox calendar, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land has announced. The change could come as early as next year. Father Pierbattista Pizzabella explained that the change was prompted by a desire to strengthen ecumenical ties between [...]

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SOME AFGHAN PARLIAMENT MEMBERS EMBRACED CHRISTIANITY

April 5, 2012 News

Iranian Christian news agency, Mohabat News 3/4/2012 Afghanistan, a country suffering from longstanding civil wars, has not seen the face of peace for a long period of time. Continuous bombings by fundamentalist Muslims have stolen peace from lives of Afghanis. However, more recently the country has been seeing some improvement in its situation and among [...]

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Egyptian Christian, 17, gets three years in jail for Facebook cartoons that ‘insulted Islam’

April 5, 2012 Featured News

4/4/2012 CAIRO- An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on his Facebook page that mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, actions that sparked sectarian violence. Gamal Abdou Massoud was also accused of distributing some of his cartoons to his school friends in a village [...]

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Russian Church Says It Is Under Attack for Backing Putin

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 Reuters Patriarch Kirill says the church is targeted because of its support for Putin. Russia’s Orthodox Church says it is under attack from unspecified “anti-Russian forces” seeking to erode its authority, after it threw its weight behind Vladimir Putin before last month’s presidential election. An unusually strongly worded statement issued Tuesday listed a recent [...]

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Orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture

April 5, 2012 News

4/4/2012 FOCUS News Agency Sofia. The first lecture on orthodox Christianity as part of contemporary culture was delivered yesterday at the Festa Sofia Hotel by the bishop Joan, vicar of Patriarch Maxim, the 24 Chasa daily informs. The event was organized by the Chairperson of the Board of Directors at Festa Holding and the Supervisory [...]

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Patriarch Kirill is going to donate to charities all money earned in case over the flat in the House on the Embankment

April 5, 2012 News

Moscow, March 30, Interfax – Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia told about nuances of judicial proceedings connected with his flat in the famous House on the Embankment in downtown Moscow. He has recently met with renowned TV anchor Vladimir Solovyov who cited the Primate’s story on air the Vesti FM radio station. “Suddenly [...]

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