Friday, May 18, 2012

Orthodox Metropolitan Violate Holy Cannons – Reports (Updated)

May 18, 2012 Featured News
Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine receiving a blessing with sacramental oil from a Roman Catholic prelate. This is a gross violation of the Holy Canons of the Orthodox Church.

18/5/2012 It has been reported by various sources that Orthodox Metropolitan Augustine of Germany of the Ecumenical Patriarchate has violated the holy cannons of the Orthodox Church by receiving sacramental oil from a Roman Catholic prelate as well taking part in non-orthodox liturgical services during an ecumenical event held on 5th may 2012, at Trier, [...]

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Fifth Anniversary of Reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church and Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

May 18, 2012 Featured News
Signing the Act of Canonical Communion by Late Patriarch Alexy of Moscow and All Russia and late Metropolitan Larus, First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.

Moscow Time 17/5/2012 Milena Faustova Read the Act of Canonical Communion of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia with the Russian orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate: Fifth Anniversary of Reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church(Moscow Patriarchate) and Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia (ROCR) Five years together Today, the Russian Orthodox Church is marking one of the [...]

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Russian Church slams reported attack on Serbian monk in Kosovo

May 18, 2012 News

Moscow, May 17, Interfax – A group of young ethnic Albanians beat up and hurled stones at a monk at a Serbian Orthodox monastery in Kosovo, the Russian Orthodox Church said on Thursday. The Monastery of Saints Cosmas and Damian near the town of Orahovac, the site of the attack, is officially under the protection [...]

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Sassounian: Armenians in Egypt: Dwindling Yet Resilient in a Country in Turmoil

May 18, 2012 News
The Church of St. Gregory the Illuminator is one of two Armenian churches in Cairo and the only Armenian Apostolic Church in the city. The church was erected in 1928, after four years of construction, by prominent Armenian architect Levon Nafilian. The church embodies the two archetypes of classical Armenian architecture: employing stone materials and topped with a conical dome.

Harut Sassounian 16/5/2012 I just returned from a fascinating trip to Egypt. The Primate of the Armenian Church had invited me on behalf of the Diocesan Council to deliver the keynote address at the annual commemoration of the Armenian Genocide. I accepted the invitation with some trepidation given the ongoing turmoil in Egypt since the [...]

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Keeping Faith in Georgia: Tbilisi Armenians struggle to save their crumbling churches from neglect

May 18, 2012 Featured News

By GOHAR ABRAHAMYAN ArmeniaNow reporter 15/5/2012 The collapse of the bell tower of the Armenian St. Nshan Church in Tbilisi Sunday night again reminded the local Armenian community about the defenseless status that Armenian churches have in Georgia. While the main reasons for the collapse is considered to be an earthquake that hit the territory [...]

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Armenian churches must be granted to Georgian Diocese of AAC – Javakhk Diaspora of Russia

May 18, 2012 News

16/5/2012 The Javakhk Diaspora of Russia released a statement on the situation over the Armenian church Surb Nshan in Tbilisi. “The belfry of the church collapsed due to tremors hitting the region and heavy rains in Tbilisi recently. The church as if accidentally was in fire back in 2002 and this January as well. Renovation [...]

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Orthodoxy and Civilization

May 18, 2012 News

16th May 2012 Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus annually mark the Day of the Christianization of Russia on July 28. Participants of the video bridge Moscow-Kiev-Minsk “Orthodox Church and the civilized way of Russia” spoke about preparations for celebrations in the three countries. Vsevolod Chaplin, head of the Synod department for relations between the church and [...]

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Russian Church Outside of Russia holds service for late Patriarch Alexy, Metropolitan Laurus who reunited Russian Church

May 18, 2012 Featured News
Late Patriarch Alexy and Late Metropolitan Larus

Moscow, May 17, Interfax – The Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, United States, has conducted a service for for Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia and First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) Metropolitan Laurus. The service in the run-up to the fifth anniversary of the reunion of the [...]

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Orthodox Church Canonizes 11 Estonian Martyrs

May 18, 2012 News

17/5/2012 The Synod of Constantinople has canonized 11 clerics and lay persons who perished during the first two years of the Soviet occupation of Estonia. A decree of canonization was read today in the Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord in Tallinn that added 9 men and 2 women to the Orthodox Church’s list of [...]

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Youngwood Serbian church marks 100th anniversary

May 18, 2012 News

Rose Domenick 17/5/2012 The Serbian presence in Youngwood might be small but it remains mighty. More than 100 years ago, this group of immigrants came to Youngwood to work long, dangerous hours on the nearby railway and persevered through their love of family and their faith. Today’s tight-knit Serbian community is still keeping family and [...]

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Orthodox Christians Clash With Gay Activists In Tbilisi

May 18, 2012 News

18/5/2012 Some 200 activists of a Georgian Orthodox antihomosexual group attacked gay activists in Tbilisi on May 17, during an event to mark the International Day Against Homophobia. Police had to intervene to stop the clashes between Orthodox Parents’ Union activists and gay rights defenders. There were no reports of serious injuries. Tbilisi city authorities [...]

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Priest insists on dominant role for Orthodox Church in Russian society

May 18, 2012 News

Moscow, May 17, Interfax – A senior priest insisted on Thursday that the Russian Orthodox Church take up the dominant role in Russian society and accused Western Christians of a “deal with evil.” “The Church is only just beginning to move toward a full-scale role in public life. It cannot be a role that is [...]

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From the Club to the Monastery?!!

May 18, 2012 Featured News

17/5/2012 The young man you see in this picture, Matthew Rodriguez, is now a Monk of the Coptic Orthodox Christian church, which is one of the strictest and most ascetic Christian churches around. But, he wasn’t exactly born with that outfit and a bible in his hand…and therein lies the amazing testimony of God’s work [...]

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Celebrating the Feast of Ascension in Jerusalem

May 18, 2012 Featured News

18/5/2012 Visit Travelujah-Holy Land Tours for attractive packages For Christians around the world, today marks the Feast of the Ascension, known as the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, is a great feast that marks the bodily Ascension of Jesus Christ into heaven. “[...] Jesus began to do and to teach until the …

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Luce Foundation Awards St. Vladimir’s Seminary $40,000 for Arvo Pärt Project

May 18, 2012 News

18/5/2012 SVOTS Deborah (Malacky) Belonick [SVOTS Communications, Yonkers, NY] St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary is pleased to announce it has received a $40,000 special planning grant from the Henry Luce Foundation that will assist the seminary in laying the groundwork for a collaborative project with the famed Orthodox Christian Estonian composer, Arvo Pärt. The seminary [...]

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Ethnic Albanians throw stone at Serb monk

May 18, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 17/5/2012 ORAHOVAC — A group of ethnic Albanian youths provoked and threw a stone at Serb Orthodox Christian monk Dionisije in Kosovo on Tuesday. The monk was inside the monastery of saints Cosmas and Damian in the village of Žočište, near Orahovac. “A group of five to six young ethnic Albanian men, as they [...]

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Kosovo Albanians attack Orthodox monk

May 18, 2012 Featured News

17/5/2012 Moscow Time In Kosovo, a group of local Albanians attacked an Orthodox monk on a monastery compound outside the city of Orahovac just three hours after the Commander of the Kosovo international military force, Bernd Holtusen, visited the city. The unidentified Albanians punched the monk several times and then started throwing rocks at him. [...]

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