Saturday, May 26, 2012

Month of May Marks Eritrea’s Religious Freedom Abuses

May 26, 2012 Featured News
Patriarch Abune Antonios of Eritrea

26/5/2012 Read OCP Article on persecutions of Eritrean Christians and the Eritrean Orthodox Church: This month marks two important anniversaries that underscore the continuing deterioration of religious freedom and related human rights in Eritrea: the 2007 house arrest of Eritrean Orthodox Patriarch Abune Antonios and the 2002 imposition of onerous registration requirements on all but [...]

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Rising birth rate in former Soviet nation credited to Orthodox Patriarch

May 26, 2012 News

BY THADDEUS BAKLINSKI 23/5/2012 TBILISI, Georgia, May 23, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The patriarch of the Georgian Orthodox Church has been credited with helping raise the birth rate in the former Soviet nation of Georgia. Patriarch Ilia II came up with an astonishingly successful incentive to counteract the country’s plummeting birth rate by promising to become [...]

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Catholicos Aram I Condemns Armenian Church Attack In Homs

May 26, 2012 News

25/5/2012 The Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I condemned the attack of the Armenian church in Syria’s Homs, Tehran-based Aliq Armenian news agency reported. “We severely condemn attacks on religions centers and sacred sites,” the Catholicos said, further expressing hope for peaceful settlement in Syria. “Armenian people will always be grateful to [...]

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Pilgrimage to South Canaan Twp. orthodox ministry begins

May 26, 2012 News

BY DANAE BLASSO (STAFF WRITER) 26/5/2012 SOUTH CANAAN TWP. – Kyra Nightingale waited near the monastery archway Friday for a glimpse of the blue velvet box carrying what she considers to be a miracle. She joined about 40 others to welcome the Weeping Iveron Icon, which arrived Friday from Hawaii for the beginning of the [...]

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For men only: A pilgrimage to Mount Athos in Greece

May 26, 2012 Featured News

26/5/2012 WILLIAM COOK On a secluded peninsula in north-east Greece lies an enclave that’s way off the tourist map, especially for women. William Cook gains access to the monastic republic of Mount Athos. All the Greeks I met on my way to Mount Athos appeared preoccupied by the euro crisis. But as we approached the [...]

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“Prevent religious persecution in Macedonia”

May 26, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 26/5/2012 BELGRADE — The Holy Synod of the Serbian Orthodox Church says “a new escalation of persecution targeting priests of the Ohrid Archdiocese in Macedonia was disturbing”. The Synod appealed “to domestic and international public to prevent it”, according to Tanjug. Bishop of Bačka Irinej said the escalation of persecution against the Ohrid Archdiocese [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill and His Beatitude Archbishop Ieronymos II of Athens and All Greece celebrated a prayer service in Red Square on the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture

May 26, 2012 Featured News

On 24 May 2012, the feast of the Ascension of the Lord, the commemoration day of Ss Cyril and Methodius, Teachers of the Slavs, and the Day of Slavic Literature and Culture, after the Divine Liturgy in the Patriarchal Cathedral of the Assumption in the Moscow Kremlin, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All [...]

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Putin thanks Archbishop of Athens for visiting Russia

May 26, 2012 News

Moscow, May 25, Interfax – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia have met with Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Hieronymos. The head of state thanked the archbishop for making his first visit to Russia on the Day of Slavic Literature and the Name Day of Patriarch Kirill. “On [...]

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Patriarch Kirill to meet with Nursultan Nazarbayev on May 29

May 26, 2012 News

26.05.2012 Patriarch Kirill will meet with Nursultan Nazarbayev on May 29, Tengrinews.kz reports citing official website of the Metropolitan district in Kazakhstan. “The meeting of His Holiness Kirill Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia with Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev will be held in Akorda (the President’s residence) at 4:30 p.m. on May 29,” the message [...]

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Uzbek Orthodox Church introduces tests for would-be godparents

May 26, 2012 News
The new leader of the Uzbek eparchy, Metropolitan Vikentiy

26/5/2012 Uzbek Orthodox Church introduces tests for would-be godparents The Orthodox churches of Uzbekistan have introduced a new procedure for the rite of baptism which provides for attending 12 Sunday lectures and passing exams. “I have visited Tashkent’s St. Uspenskiy cathedral church to find out how to baptise my son and learnt that this is [...]

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Antiochian Church Interested In St. Alban’s Site

May 26, 2012 News

25/5/2012 The Antiochian Orthodox Church has expressed an interest in taking over the St. Alban’s Church site as a base for its congregation. A group of representatives from its Council of Management visited the Acton Green site yesterday (Thursday, May 24th).They were accompanied by a representative of the London Diocese of the Church of England [...]

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