Saturday, May 5, 2012

Israeli Persecution forces Christians to Emigrate

May 5, 2012 Featured News

By Khalid Amayreh 5/5/2012 Israeli ambassador to the United State Michael Oren recently tried to bully CBS to kill a story exposing Israeli persecution, harassment and mistreatment of Palestinian Christians, forcing many of them to emigrate. Oren, a Jewish supremacist, reportedly described the ’60 Minutes’ broadcast of 12+ minute story on Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinian [...]

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Freedom House: Macedonia worse than Kosovo in regard to the freedom of the press

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5/5/2012 In the latest Freedom House reports on the freedom of the press, our homeland remains rated as a “partly free” country, while the latest marks show its significant downgrade, and this time are classifying it as the country with the lowest level of freedom of the press in comparison to, for example, Albania, Kosovo, [...]

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Ordination at London Mission

May 5, 2012 News

The British Orthodox Church 5/5/2012 On 5 May, during the regular monthly celebration of the Divine Liturgy for the British Orthodox London Mission of SS. George & Paul the Hermit at St. George-in-the-East, Shadwell, Abba Seraphim ordained Daniel Malyon as a Subdeacon. Daniel is a member of the BOC Portsmouth Parish but whilst teaching near [...]

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Clerics from all over the world come to say goodbye to bishop

May 5, 2012 News

Sussex Courier 4/5/2012 CHURCH leaders from across the world– including Syria – gathered in Uckfield to mark the retirement of the Bishop of Chichester. The Syriac Orthodox Archbishop of Aleppo addressed a congregation at Holy Cross Church on Sunday and paid tribute to Dr John Hind. His Eminence Gregorios Ibrahim gave a speech about the [...]

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Archbishop of Athens Ieronymos to Visit Orthodox Church of Russia

May 5, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 4/5/2012 Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Ieronymos will pay a visit to the Church of Russia May 23-30 at the invitation of Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow and All Russia. Ieronymos, who will be accompanied by members of the Holy Synod and hierarchs, will visit Moscow and Saint Petersburg, where he will [...]

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Religion census shows area evangelical population growing; Catholic population flat

May 5, 2012 News

Laura Legere The Times-Tribune, Scranton, Pa. 4/5/2012 USA The number of evangelical Protestants in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre area surged in the past decade, accompanied by growth in both the local Muslim and Mormon populations, according to a national study of U.S. religious groups released this week. The changes reflect an increasing diversity of religious affiliations tracked [...]

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Paschal celebrations in China

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Chinese Orthodox Church English translation by Katherine Ilachinsk 2/5/2012 Worship at the Dormition church-museum on the territory of Russian Embassy in China during the Holy Week occurred daily. Rector of the Dormition Church priest Sergey Voronin was helped by cleric of Australian Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church outside Russia, Fr Alexis Duke, and a [...]

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Sixty-Four Percent of Russians Trust Orthodox Church – Poll

May 5, 2012 News

04/05/2012 MOSCOW,(RIA Novosti) Russians have more trust in the Russian Orthodox Church in general than in its head Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, according to a survey conducted by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The survey, the results of which were published on Friday, said 64 percent of Russians have confidence [...]

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Up against Lady Gaga’s Sofia Concert

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4/5/2012 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church has made it clear it disapproves of the upcoming concert of US pop star Lady Gaga in Sofia. 5-time Grammy Award winner’s Sofia gig will be the first one in the European leg of her Born This Way Ball tour, taking place on August 14, 2012. “What is sinful must [...]

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules in favor of Greek Orthodox church in dispute with city of Springfield over fire detection system

May 5, 2012 News
St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 22 St. George Road, is seen in Springfield's North End.

By Dan Ring, The Republican 4/5/2012 BOSTON — The state’s highest court today ruled in favor of St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral of Western Massachusetts in a legal dispute with the city of Springfield over a fire detection system. In a decision written by Judge Barbara A. Lenk, the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld a [...]

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President of the Republic of Moldova on a Visit to the Romanian Patriarchate

May 5, 2012 News

The Press Office of the Romanian Patriarchate informs us: On 3 May 2012, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church received at the Patriarchate Palace, His Excellency Mr. Nicolae Timofti, President of the Republic of Moldova, who was on an official visit to Romania. Mr. Eugen Tomac, State Secretary for the Romanians from [...]

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The Annual Meeting of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania

May 5, 2012 Featured News

On 26 April 2012, the annual meeting of the Consultative Council of the Religious Cults of Romania took place in Conventus room of the Patriarchate Palace, under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel, with the participation with the right to vote of the representatives of the following recognized cults: – The Romanian Orthodox Church [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej consecrated a new building of the Main Postal Centre

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4/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej consecrated yesterday on May 3, 2012 a new building of the Main Postal Center in Ugrinovicka street in Zemun. MPC „Belgrade”– the nod of the PTT system The year 2012 should be remembered as a historic date for the Serbian Post by introduction of automated processing of postal shipments. items. This [...]

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Session of the Plenary of the Patriarchate Steering Committee of the Serbian Orthodox Church

May 5, 2012 News

4/5/2012 Before the beginning of the regular year’s session of the Plenary of the Patriarchate Steering Committee of the Serbian Orthodox Church on May 3, 2012 His Grace Bishop Jovan of Sumadija served the Invocation of the Holy Spirit in the Patriarchate Chapel of St. Symeon the Myrrh-Gushing, in the presence of His Holiness Irinej, [...]

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Serbian Patriarch Irinej meets with delegation from Azerbaijan

May 5, 2012 News

3/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej received on May 2, 2012 in an official visit the delegation from Azerbaijan: Elcin Efendiyev, deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan; Archbishop Aleksandar Bakinski from the Russian Orthodox Church; Shejkulislam Allahshyukur Pashazde, President of Administration of Caucasian Muslims; Salaman Musayev, the first deputy President of the Administration of Caucasian Muslims; Mugedes Payizov, [...]

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Inter – Orthodox Assembly of priesthood in Melbourn

May 5, 2012 Featured News

On Monday, April 30, 2012 in the Greek parish of Holy Unmercenaries in Melbourn, the First Assembly of Priesthood of Melbourn and the surroundings. The assembly was led by Bishop Ezekiel of Dervis (vicar Bishop of Ecumenical Patriarchate), as the host of the meeting: His Eminence Metropolitan Hilarion, first hierarch of the Russian Church Abroad; [...]

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President of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly visits St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Trinity and Moscow Theological Academy

May 5, 2012 News

On May 1, 2012, St. Sergius’s Monastery of the Holy Trinity and the Moscow Theological Academy had the honour to welcome H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, president of the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, who was in Moscow for a visit at the invitation of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute for Oriental [...]

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