Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Syndesmos Festival 2012

May 1, 2012 Featured News

1/5/2012 The theme of the Syndesmos 2012 Neamt project is “Prophets for our time”. There are several reasons why we have chosen this theme: it connects Old and New Testament, it refers to prophetic figures of the 19th and 20th centuries and because the very existence of Syndesmos and its activities over the last six [...]

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Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan urges return of confiscated churches

May 1, 2012 News

1/5/2012 His Eminence Archbishop Oshagan Choloyan, Prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church of the Eastern United States, called on Members of Congress to urge Turkey to return confiscated Christian churches and end U.S. complicity in Turkey’s genocide denial, during a full day Capitol Hill meetings, this week, which began with the offering of the opening [...]

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A Pannikhida is Planned for the Oldest Russian Military Cemetery in Germany

May 1, 2012 News

1/5/2012 Russian Church outside Russia There is a small town named Weingarten in the Baden-Wurttemberg region of southern Germany, north of the Bodensee (Lake Constance). Not far is a small forest which locals have called “Russian” for over 200 years. On its edge is a small hillock. On a picturesque parcel on this hill is [...]

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Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem

May 1, 2012 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On April 25 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church Metropolitan Volodymyr met with Patriarch Theophilos III of the Holy City of Jerusalemand All Palestine. The meeting was also attended by Metropolitan Volodymyr of Pochaiv, Chairman of the DECR of the UOC Archbishop Anthony of Boryspil, Secretary for the Primate of the [...]

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14 candidates run for the Coptic Christian Papal Seat

May 1, 2012 Featured News
Interim Coptic pope Bishop Bakhomious at church press conference on presidential elections (Photo: Bassam El-Zoghby)

1/5/2012 A Coptic legal advisor announces that 14 bishops and priests from Egypt and abroad have nominated themselves for the papal chair, and that there may be a change in the lot system that makes the ultimate decision. Maged Riyad, legal consultant to the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United States, announced in a press [...]

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Indian Orthodox Church Head Feted

May 1, 2012 Featured News

1/5/2012 UAE/Abu Dhbai: Shaikh Nahyan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, felicitated Moran Mar Baselios Marthoma Paulose II, Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, on the occasion of the 1960th anniversary of the establishment of the Malankara Syrian Orthodox Church and the centenary celebrations of the establishment of the [...]

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Unalaska Cathedral Vandalized

May 1, 2012 Featured News

UNALASKA, AK [OCA] 1/5/2012 Graffiti sprayed on the historic Holy Ascension of Our Lord Cathedral here in late April 2012 has “sparked outrage,” reported the Alaska Dispatch. While the words “Dutch” and “Duncha,” written in a childish scrawl in gray spray paint, were quickly removed, the painful emotions among parishioners and other local residents lingers. [...]

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“The Fields are Ripe for the Harvest” details mission, evangelization opportunities in Mexico

May 1, 2012 News

SYOSSET, NY [OCA] 28/4/2012 As reported on the web site of the Orthodox Church in America on April 3, 2012, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, and Priest John Parker, chairman of the OCA Department of Evangelization, visited Mexico during the first week of April to ascertain ways the department might further assist His Grace, Bishop Alejo [...]

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Holy Myrrhbearers Monastery to celebrate triple milestone August 25-26, 2012

May 1, 2012 News

OCA OTEGO, NY [NY/NJ Diocese Communications] 26/4/2012 With profound joy and gratitude to God, His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah, Primate of the Orthodox Church in America, announces a milestone in the history of Orthodox Christian monastic spirituality in North America. On Saturday and Sunday, August 25-26, 2012, this national celebration of Orthodox monasticism will be marked [...]

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Housing for the poor in Valle Sanchez

May 1, 2012 Featured News

The Coptic Church in Bolivia Karim Aziz & Amir Ramzi 1/5/2012 Website: Over those lasts few months we where busy building the first housing complex for the poor and the needy that includes 4 large apartments each with 2 large bedrooms, 1 full bathroom, 1 kitchen and a large living area. With the grace of [...]

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