Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Syrian Christians fear Islamist rule if Assad goes

May 15, 2012 Featured News

15/5/2012 Damascus: Christians living in conflict-torn Syria are afraid their community would fall victim of religious extremism if President Bashar al-Assad’s regime collapses and Islamists come to power. “I am afraid that we will suffer bad times,” a member of Damascus’s Christian community, who identified himself as Jorge, told Russia’s RIA Novosti news agency. A [...]

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UK parliamentarians hear plight of Christian Women

May 15, 2012 News

John Pontifex and John Newton Aid to the Church in Need 15/5/2012 Revelations about the scale of hate crimes against Christian women in Pakistan and Egypt are to be the subject of a meeting in parliament today. At the briefing in the House of Commons, MPs and peers will hear how Christian women in countries [...]

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Copts to shun Islamists in Egypt’s presidential, vote fear sectarian conflicts

May 15, 2012 News
Orthodox Coptic church official said 6 million Copts are among the 50 million eligible voters who go to the polls on May 23 and 24 and again next month in a run-off if no candidate scores more than 50 percent in the first round. (File photo)

By YASMINE SALEH REUTERS CAIRO 15/5/2012 Egypt’s Coptic Christians complained of discrimination under Hosni Mubarak but fear it may get worse if an Islamist takes his place in next week’s presidential election. Long-suppressed Islamists already dominate parliament. Islamist contenders for the presidency say Christians, who form about a tenth of Egypt’s 82 million mostly Muslim [...]

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Marley movie doesn’t resolve religion dilemma

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BY BALFORD HENRY Sunday Observer senior reporter balfordh@jamaicaobserver.com 15/5/2012 Read more: http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/columns/Marley-movie-doesn-t-resolve-religion-dilemma_11412512#ixzz1uxJYlbxM THE new docufilm Marley has brought home an image of the late reggae great, Bob Marley, to a young generation who were probably finding it hard to understand what was so special about him and his music. It presents Marley’s life in the [...]

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Official commentary. Metropolitan Volodymyr was discharged from hospital

May 15, 2012 News

Ukrainian Orthodox Church On May 10, Metropolitan Volodymyr of Kyiv and All Ukraine was discharged from “Oberih” hospital, where he was undergoing treatment and rehabilitation measures. The condition of His Beatitude Volodymyr is stable and allows him to return to work, to participate in church activities, meetings and social life. Metropolitan Volodymyr was put to [...]

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Coptic Christians among Jersey City faith groups helping 25 West Point cadets deepen appreciation for other cultures

May 15, 2012 News

By Charles Hack/The Jersey Journal File News 28/4/2012 After a tour of Ellis Island and a lunch featuring Egyptian cuisine hosted by a Coptic Orthodox Church, 25 West Point cadets visited the church on Bergen Avenue to learn about Coptic history and the church’s role in the community. The next stop for the cadets who [...]

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Hollywood Stars find Faith during their Israel Tour

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Elisa Moed and Gil Zohar 15/5/2012 Travelujah “People can learn, plan and share their Holy land tour and travel experiences on Travelujah.” A group of eight Hollywood TV and film stars completed a week-long tour of Israel Sunday as guests of Israel’s Ministry of Tourism and the Ministry of Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs. The [...]

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St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale Delivers Superb Concert in NYC: VIEW VIDEO!

May 15, 2012 News

7th May 2012 [YONKERS, NY / SVOTS COMMUNICATIONS] St. Vladimir’s Seminary Chorale delivered a stunning performance of sacred music in the heart of Manhattan on Monday evening, May 7th. With artistic execution and prayerful potency, the singers filled the warm and inviting space of St. Malachy’s Church with a sound fitting for heaven—and needful on [...]

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The 5th round of dialogue between the Center for Interreligious Dialogue and the Armenian Orthodox Church, Catholicosate of Cilicia

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15/5/2012 (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The fifth round of dialogues between the Center for Interreligious Dialogue and the Armenian Orthodox Church, Catholicosate of Cilicia, kicks off yesterday, May 14, in Tehran. Titled “The Role of Religion in Promotion of Ethical Values in the Society”, the forum has been organized by the Organization for Culture [...]

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His Holiness Aram I addresses a youth gathering in Isfahan

May 15, 2012 News

“THE YOUTH MUST BE GIVEN AN IMPORTANT PLACE IN THE LIFE OF THE CHURCH AND COMMUNITY”, HIS HOLINESS ARAM I 15/5/2012 ANTELIAS, Lebanon – Addressing a youth gathering in Isfahan, His Holiness Aram I called for a more important role for the Armenian youth in church and community life: “All sorts of approaches and all [...]

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West has betrayed Christianity, Russia will save it – Orthodox Church official

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14/5/2012 Countries of the “Russian world” are capable of changing the globe within ten years, believes top cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin. By the “Russian world” he means states with a historically strong tradition of Orthodox Christianity which, apart from Russia, include Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Romania and several others. “Our Orthodox civilization [...]

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700 Priests on a Conference at the Patriarchal Palace

May 15, 2012 News

On Monday, 14 May 2012, seven hundred clergy of the Archdiocese of Bucharest participated in the Spring semestral pastoral-missionary conference. The Conference was held under the chairmanship of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church at the Patriarchate Palace, in Patriarch Teoctist Aula Magna Hall. Priests ofDeaneries I, II and III Capital, North [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Re-consecrated the Church of Saint Basil the Great – Cotroceni

May 15, 2012 News

On 13 May 2012, the 5th Sunday after the Holy Easter, named of the Samarinean woman, His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church re-consecrated the church of Saint Basil the Great and of Saint Pious Parascheva situated in Cotroceni district of Bucharest, assisted by a group of priests and deacons, after the restoration [...]

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Solemn Procession in honour and glory of Our Holy Father Basil of Ostrog the Wonderworker went through streets of Niksic

May 15, 2012 Featured News

Serbian Orthodox Church 15/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriaarch, His Eminence Metropolitan Amfilohije of Montenegro and the Littoral and Their Graces Bishops retired Atanasije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, Nikanor of Banat, Filaret of Milesevo, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and Maxim of Western America with great number of priests and believers led on Saturday, May 12 [...]

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His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch blesses newly-built Monastery of St. Sava in Golija

May 15, 2012 News

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 His Holiness Irinej, Serbian Patriarch consecrated today newly built monastery of St. Sava in Golija with the concelebration of Their Graces Bishops retired Atanasije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina, Nikanor of Banat, Filaret of Mileseva, Joanikije of Budimlje-Niksic, Grigorije of Zahumlje-Herzegovina and Maxim of Western America on Sunday, May 13, 2012 and he served [...]

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On the way to the great jubilee in 2013

May 15, 2012 News

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 THE EDICT OF MILAN (313-2013): A BASIS FOR FREEDOM OF RELIGION OR BELIEF? Novi Sad, Serbia: May, 2nd – 5th, 2012. C O N C L U S I O N S Departing from the Everlasting values and permanent actuality of Edict of Milan, at the eve of the Great Jubilee [...]

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Announcement of the Holy Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church on the occasion of the latest imprisonment of Archbishop John

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His Eminence Archbishop Jovan VI Archbishop Of Ohrid And Metropolitan Of Skopje (Serbian Orthodox Church)

Serbian Orthodox Church 14/5/2012 After years of persecution, harassment, arrests and imprisonments, His Beatitude the Archbishop of Ohrid and Metropolitan of Skopje kyr Dr. John, pan-Orthodoxly renowned and recognized canonical Prelate of the ancient Ohrid Archbishopric, was sentenced yesterday, May 11th, to two and a half years in prison under false charges of alleged fraud [...]

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Eastern Christian countries capable of altering humankind in 10 years – Archpriest Chaplin

May 15, 2012 News

Moscow, May 14, Interfax – Russia, Ukraine, Byelorussia and other Eastern Christian countries are meant to change the entire humankind together, the head of the Synodal Department for Church and Society Relations archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin has said. “Our Christian Orthodox, Eastern Slavic civilization is not the most numerous but it is central because it is [...]

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