May 2012

Book Review: Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831

May 31, 2012 Featured News

By Panos Sophoulis 31/5/2012 Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831 (Brill, 2011) Reviewed by Chris Deliso Get a copy here: Byzantium’s chronically turbulent relationship with the Turkic Bulgar khanate in the late eighth and early ninth centuries is the subject of this groundbreaking new synthetic political study. In Byzantium and Bulgaria, 775-831 specialist scholars and general Balkan-interest [...]

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Bulgarians from Bosilegrad raise funds for the restoration of the burnt church in Bolgrad

May 31, 2012 News

FOCUS News Agency 31/5/2012 Bosilegrad. The fund-raising campaign in Bosilegrad for the restoration of the burnt Transfiguration Orthodox Church in Bolgrad has ended, the Cultural and Information Center in Bosilegrad told FOCUS News Agency. The charity campaign was launched at the 19th International Children’s Easter Festival in Bosilegrad. The campaign has managed to raise EUR [...]

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Clergy blame disunity for Uganda’s underdevelopment

May 31, 2012 News

By Pascal Kwesiga and Justus Akampa 31/5/2012 As Uganda gears up for the 50th independence jubilee, bishops from the Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox faiths have called on spiritual leaders and politicians to advocate for unity and love to promote peaceful coexistence among Ugandans. The bishops under Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC) came together for a [...]

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Patriarch Kirill to visit Kyiv on July 26-28

May 31, 2012 News

31/5/2012 The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, will visit Kyiv on July 26-28 this year. “Patriarch Kirill’s visit on the memorial day of St. (Prince) Volodymyr is already traditional. This year, the traditional visit, dedicated to this day, also foresees his participation in marking the 20th anniversary [...]

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Serbia’s new president takes oath of office

May 31, 2012 Featured News

31/5/2012 BELGRADE — Tomislav Nikolić was on Thursday in Belgrade sworn in in front of the Serbian parliament, officially taking over as Serbia’s new president. Nikolić won in the second round of the presidential election on May 20, defeating Boris Tadić, who sought his third term in office. The special parliament session in Belgrade today [...]

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Head of Georgian Orthodox Church sent address to IV Religious Congress

May 31, 2012 News

31/5/2012 Catholicos Patriarch of all Georgia Ilia II has sent an address to the IV Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions, which is taking place these days in Astana. “Peace at home, peace around the world is a great value, the grace of God. And we need to strive towards this,” Ilia II [...]

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Russian church and state reach an accord

May 31, 2012 News

By Sophia Kishkovsky 31/5/2012 Access to returned churches guaranteed, as Putin gives historic icon to convent that was in a museum. The Russian culture ministry and the Russian Orthodox Church signed a co-operation agreement on 3 May that guarantees conservation experts and the public access to churches and monasteries that have been returned by the [...]

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Valaam : Island of the Monks (Teaser 1)

May 30, 2012 Featured News
François Lespes

Visit the Website here: 31/5/2012 “Valaam, island of the monks”, is a documentary by François Lespes (French Documentary Director), about the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam, an island in Lake Ladoga, frozen in ice eight months a year. The film is currently under production and will be aired for the first time on the french [...]

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In Greece, church’s tangled ties with government raise questions

May 30, 2012 News

By Michael Birnbaum 30/5/2012 ATHENS — With this Mediterranean nation’s finances on life support, some here have turned to the church for spiritual succor. Others say the government needs its cold, hard cash. The Greek Orthodox Church has long been not just a religious force but also an economic one, with a stake in the [...]

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Netanyahu Begins Tanakh (Bible Study) Circle at Prime Ministers Residence

May 30, 2012 News

30/5/2012 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu renewed a bible study tradition started by Israel’s first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion. The Prime Minister’s Tanakh Study Circle was (bible study circle) re-instituted by Netanyu, in memory of his father-in-law, Shmuel Ben-Artzi,who also participated in the circle. Mr. Ben-Artzi, who passed away last November, was a Tanakh teacher …

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Malatya: Post-Armenian life in modern Turkey’s once Armenian city

May 30, 2012 News
Modern Turkey’s southeastern city of Malatya

By GAYANE MKRTCHYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 30/5/2012 Armenian brothers Arman and Murad, who live in Turkey’s southeastern city of Malatya, open the doors of the 250-year-old Armenian Holy Trinity (Tashhoron) Church in the city’s Cavusoglu district and invite in the group of visiting Armenian and Turkish journalists. The church that once saw liturgies and was filled [...]

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Armenian soldier has been killed in Syria

May 30, 2012 News

30/5/2012 YEREVAN, MAY 30, ARMENPRESS: The latest events in Syria again harmed Armenian community of Syria. The Armenian community on Damascus lost Armenian soldier. Armenpress was informed from representative of Armenian community of Syria Nazareth Elmadzyan Levon Kuiumdzyan born in 1992 was killed during the clashes in the territory of Bab al Haua near Turkish-Syrian [...]

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Turkish, Armenian journalists traveling throughout Turkey, Armenia and Georgia

May 30, 2012 News

30.05.2012 A group of Turkish and Armenian journalists are traveling throughout Turkey, Armenia and Georgia from May 24 to June 6 in order to gain first-hand insight into their neighbors and to report in-depth about Turkish-Armenian relations from the field. The group is scheduled to visit six places in Turkey: İstanbul, Malatya, Kayseri, Cappadocia, Ankara [...]

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Hundreds attend 108th pilgrimage to Saint Tikhon’s Monastery

May 30, 2012 Featured News

30/5/2012 OCA For the 108th consecutive year, hundreds of faithful flocked to the annual pilgrimage at Saint Tikhon’s Monastery here over Memorial Day weekend. The pilgrimage officially opened on Friday afternoon, May 25, 2012, with the arrival of the Myrrh-Streaming Iveron Icon of the Mother of God from Hawaii at the monastery entrance arch. The [...]

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Search opened for OCA Representative to Moscow Patriarchate, Dean of Moscow’s St. Catherine Representation Church

May 30, 2012 Featured News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 30/5/2012 The Orthodox Church in America is accepting applications for the position of Representative to the Moscow Patriarchate and Dean and Rector of Saint Catherine Representation Church, Moscow. While the OCA Chancery is coordinating the search for a suitable candidate, the final appointment to the position will be made by His Beatitude, [...]

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“Unorthodox” priest still practising after sexually abusing woman

May 30, 2012 News

29/5/2012 An Ethiopian Orthodox priest who sexually abused a parishioner during a depraved baptism ritual has avoided a jail term and is continuing to practise. Gebrehana Semre of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church in St Phillips Square, Battersea, was handed a 12-month prison sentence last week, suspended for 18 months, after being convicted of assaulting [...]

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Ethiopian Muslims and Ethiopian Christian Orthodox Demand Religious Freedom for All Ethiopians (SMNE)

May 30, 2012 Featured News

27/5/2012 Historic decision brings Ethiopian people of faith together in condemning the Meles regime’s interference in their religious practice. Ethiopian Muslims and Ethiopian Christians are creating history! Leaders of both faiths are now publically supporting the religious freedom of each other and with it, condemning the Ethiopian regime of Meles Zenawi for its interference in [...]

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Attempts To Revive Language Spoken in Jesus’ Time

May 30, 2012 Featured News

By Diaa Hadid 29/5/2012 Centuries after it disappeared from the Middle East, efforts are being made to revive the ancient Aramaic language many believe Jesus spoke. The villages of Beit Jala and Jish found inspiration and assistance in an unlikely place: Sweden. There, Aramaic-speaking communities who descended from the Middle East sought to keep their [...]

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Kyiv Mayor conferred on His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr a commemorative medal “1530 years of Kyiv”

May 30, 2012 Featured News

On May 24, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr received Head of Kyiv City State Administration Oleksandr Popov at his residence at St Panteleimon’s Monastery in Feofaniya. The meeting was attended by Secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Archbishop Alexander of Pereyaslav-Khmenytskyy and Vyshneve, a representative of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church in the Verkhovna [...]

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Inter-religious Symposium at the Patriarchate Palace

May 30, 2012 News

Romanian Orthodox Church On 29 May 2012, the first day of the inter-religious Symposium on the theme Diaspora – a reality of the present society took place in Conventus room of the Patriarchate Palace, organised by the Romanian Patriarchate in cooperation with Sapir Centre of Jerusalem and the Jewish Communities Federation of Romania, with the [...]

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Dialogue and Co-operation for the Common Good

May 30, 2012 Featured News

Romanian Orthodox Church 29/5/2012 The opening speech of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel at the Interreligious Symposium “ Diaspora – A Reality of the Society of Today”, Palace of the Patriarchate, 29 – 30 May 2012: It is with joy that we greet all the participants in the Interreligious Symposium on the theme Diaspora – a [...]

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IASPORA – A REALITY OF THE PRESENT SOCIETY, INTER-RELIGIOUS SYMPOSIUM AT THE PATRIARCHATE PALACE

May 30, 2012 News

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 29 and 30 May 2012, an inter-religious symposium will take place at the Patriarchate Palace of Bucharest, on the theme Diaspora – a reality of the present society, organised by the Romanian Patriarchate in cooperation with Sapir Centre of Jerusalem and the Jewish Communities Federation [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Is A “Citizen of Honour” of Ploiesti City

May 30, 2012 News

On 27 May 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church celebrated the consecration service of the church dedicated to the “Falling Asleep of the Mother of God” and to “Saints Michael and Gabriel the Archangels”, in Ploiesti city. His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church was awarded the title of [...]

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His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel Consecrated the Church of the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God of Ploiesti

May 30, 2012 News

Romanian Orthodox Church From 27 May 2012, the faithful of Ploiesti have a new church in Nuci district. The place of worship is dedicated to the “Falling Asleep of the Mother of God” and to “Saints Michael and Gabriel the Archangels” and it was consecrated this morning by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian [...]

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Communique of the Holy Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church

May 30, 2012 Featured News

30/5/2012 The regular meeting of the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church took place at the Serbian Patriarchate in Belgrade May 15-23, under the presidency of His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej. Participating in the Assembly were all the diocesan hierarchs of the Serbian Orthodox Church, with the exception of His Beatitude Archbishop of [...]

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