Thursday, April 19, 2012

Works in monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23

April 19, 2012 Featured News

Radio Serbia 19/4/2012 Works on the conservation and restoration of frescoes in Orthodox Serb monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23 and Belgrade company Koto, chosen by UNESCO at a tender, will be in charge. Works on the conservation and restoration of frescoes in Orthodox Serb monasteries in Kosmet begin on April 23 and Belgrade [...]

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ANCA-Orange County to host commemorative Armenian Genocide event featuring a screening of “Bolis”

April 19, 2012 News

18.04.2012 The Armenian National Committee of America-Orange County will be hosting an Armenian Genocide Commemoration event featuring a screening of “Bolis” by Award winning Director Eric Nazarian. The event will be held on April 22, 2012 in the Gugasian Hall at Forty Martyr’s Armenian Church. “We are looking forward to this year’s commemoration as a [...]

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Watch a documentary about archimandrite Gabriel online!

April 19, 2012 Featured News

Michał Kalina Polish Orthodox Church 18.04.2012 Archimandrite Gabriel – an Orthodox monk from the Podlasie province in Poland – is the founder and sole inhabitant of the Kudak grove hermitage by river Narew. During his first few years there, he lived and prayed in a wagon house, without electricity, running water, or contact with the [...]

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Common proclamation will be signed in August

April 19, 2012 News

Maria Nalewajko Polish Orthodox Church 18/4/2012 During a visit of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and whole Russia in August a Common Proclamation to the Nations of Russia and Poland about the reconciliation between our nations will be signed – informed the KAI (Catholic Informative Agency) Archbishop Stanislaw Budzik. “It has a historical importance, as in [...]

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HIS BEATITUDE INAUGARATES THE NEW WING OF THE PATRIARCHATE SCHOOL IN TAYBEH

April 19, 2012 News

Jerusalem Patriarchate On Tuesday, the 21st of March / 3rd of April 2012, His Beatitude Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilos III inaugurated the new wing of our Patriarchate’s school in Taybeh. Taybeh is a suburb of Ramallah with 35.000 residents, three thousand of whom are Arab-speaking Orthodox belonging to the Patriarchate. The Patriarchate of Jerusalem operates [...]

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Pope not planning to visit Serbia, Vatican says

April 19, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 19/4/2012 VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI is not planning to visit Serbia next year for the 1,700th anniversary of the Edict of Milan, Holy See Spokesman Federico Lombardi has said. The Belgrade-based Religious Information Agency (VIA) reported that Lombardi said that the contacts with the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate included Pope’s possible visit to [...]

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Georgia-Israel Relations Continue Stumbling With Monastery Flap – Analysis

April 19, 2012 Featured News
The Monastery of the Cross, Jerusalem.

By Brittany Pheiffer 19/4/2012 A controversy over a historically Georgian monastery in Jerusalem is further complicating already-strained ties between Tel Aviv and Tbilisi. Despite mutual reputations as bastions of liberalism in charged geopolitical zones, Georgia’s relationship with Israel has been rocky for years. Georgia’s previously positive relationship with Israel became tense after intelligence indicated that [...]

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A European monarch is buried in Libertyville

April 19, 2012 Featured News
St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Church and Monastery has been a landmark in Libertyville for more than 85 years.

BY ARLENE LANE AND SONIA SCHOENFIELD 18/4/2012 Drive down a quiet stretch of Milwaukee Avenue just three miles north of Libertyville and you’ll find a unique Byzantine-style church on the east side of the road. Within this church is the resting place of the only European monarch buried in U. S. soil. St. Sava Serbian [...]

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Chuck Colson ‘Will Soon Be With the Lord;’ Family Gathers at Bedside

April 19, 2012 News

By Lillian Kwon Christian Post Reporter 18/4/2012 Chuck Colson’s condition worsened Tuesday and he may be “with the Lord” soon, according to a new announcement by Prison Fellowship Ministries. “It is with a heavy, but hopeful heart that I share with you that it appears our friend, brother and founder will soon be home with [...]

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How Should Christianity Engage With Gays in a Post-Closet World?‎

April 19, 2012 News

19/4/2012 Entry 8: I may not like it, but I can’t claim gay relationships fit the Christian view of sexuality. If the Christian view of homosexuality were just grounded in a single passage in Leviticus and a single passage in the Pauline epistles, then the kind of modern reinterpretation you’re suggesting would be—well, not easy, [...]

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Stars Speak of God as Orthodox Church Prepares to Defend Faith

April 19, 2012 Featured News

18/04/2012 Marc Bennetts, RIA Novosti With Russia’s powerful Orthodox Church facing a wave of criticism from what it has called supporters of “radical liberal values,” a Christian publisher presented on Wednesday a book on the religious beliefs of stars of show business and film. “The Church has always been persecuted,” actor and presenter Boris Korchevnikov, [...]

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