Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Catholicos Aram I pays visit to Iran

May 9, 2012 Featured News

8/5/2012 Catholicos Aram I of the Great House of Cilicia arrived on a pastoral visit to Iran on Monday. He will preside on the interfaith dialogue meeting between the Armenian Catholicosate of Cilicia and the Representatives of the Islamic Republic of Iran that began 10 years ago. Speaking in Surb Sargis church in Tehran, Aram [...]

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Ukrainian festival of Orthodox media starts in Donetsk

May 9, 2012 News

8/5/2012 It was opened with the exposition of printed publications.Church publications editors, designers, film and tv producers, journalists of Orthodox newspapers, magazines and Internet portals gathered in this mining city. In the framework of the festival workshops and exhibitions, meetings and movie screenings will be held. Orthodox journalists will make pilgrimage trip to Svyatogorsk Holy [...]

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UOC Primate celebrated Divine Liturgy at St. George’s Church in Kyiv

May 9, 2012 News

On May 6, Sunday 4th after Easter and commemoration of St George, Metropolitan Volodymyr celebrated the Divine Liturgy at St. George Church, situated in the square in front of the Southern terminal of Kyiv railway station. Concelebrating to His Beatitude were: Metropolitan Lazarus of Crimea and Simferopol, secretary for the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox [...]

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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Wishes For Formation of ‘Viable Government’

May 9, 2012 News

By Areti Kotseli 7/5/2012 Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew wished Greece to succeed in electing a “viable government” so that the country “comes out of the crisis.” After the Divine Liturgy he held at St. George church close to the Adrianopoles Gate (Edirnekapou) yesterday, he addressed his audience saying, “We wish a viable and stable government be [...]

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Saint Patron Celebration And Consecration At Cornu Monastery

May 9, 2012 News

Romanian Church On 8th May 2012, the Orthodox faithful celebrate Saint John the Apostle and Evangelist. He was one of the 12 Apostles of the Saviour and wrote the Gospel of his name, three canonical epistles and the book of the Revelation. Saint John the Evangelist is also one of the protectors of Cornu Monastery, [...]

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Slava of St. George church in Prizren

May 9, 2012 News

Serbian Church 7/5/2012 In Prizren the church slava was solemnly celebrated in Prizren yesterday in the church of St. George the Great Martyr. The joy of the festivity was even greater, because the feast of St. George was also slava of Bishop Teodosije of Raska-Prizren who led the Divine Liturgy with the concelebration of 14 [...]

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Conference of the Edict of Milan opens

May 9, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Church 7/5/2012 In the congress hall of the Hotel Center in Novi Sad, on Wednesday, May 3, 2012 an international conference began: The Edict of Milan (313-2013): Basis for freedom of religion and belief. Opening this conference, His Grace Bishop Dr Irinej of Backa welcomed all high representatives of European confessions and all participants.У [...]

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Famous 13th century religious artefact makes flying visit to Wirral

May 9, 2012 News
The Kursk Root Icon

Linda Foo Guest, Heswall News 9/5/2012 A FAMOUS religious icon will make a flying visit to Wirral this Friday. The Kursk Root Icon will come to the little parish of St Elisabeth the New Martyr, based at the former Rake Lane Cemetery Chapel in Liscard. It will be the icon’s third visit to Wirral – [...]

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Indian Orthodox Media Wing to Resume Operation

May 9, 2012 News

9/5/2012 Liju Cherian MUSCAT HG Pulikkottil Dr Geevarghese Mar Yulios, is the new Vice Chairman of Indian (Malankara) Orthodox Church’s media wing for the Outside Kerala region. In his comments to Malankara Orthodox TV (M.TV) and Indian Orthodox Herald (IOH) during his recent visit to Muscat, the Metropolitan emphasized that the new media wing both [...]

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