June 2012

Emmy Award Winning Hollywood Actor Jonathan Jackson Converts to Orthodoxy

June 30, 2012 Featured News

29/6/2012 Personal Website: Wikipedia Profile: Jonathan Jackson is a 4-TIME EMMY AWARD WINNING ACTOR He was a former Seventh-Day Adventist who converted to holy Orthodox in the year 2012. Actor Jonathan Jackson, who plays Lucky Spencer on the soap opera “General Hospital,” won the trophy for Best Supporting Actor at the Daytime Emmys on Saturday [...]

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Opposition demanding Syrian Christians leave

June 30, 2012 Featured News

28/6/2012 Editor’s Note: The following report is excerpted from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin, the premium online newsletter published by the founder of WND. Subscriptions are $99 a year or, for monthly trials, just $9.95 per month for credit card users, and provide instant access for the complete reports. BEIRUT, Lebanon – Syrian Christians are being [...]

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Hague called to protect Christian minorities in Egypt and Syria

June 30, 2012 News

29/6/2012 Release International is calling on Foreign Secretary William Hague to keep human and religious rights at the forefront of any talks with Egyptian and Syrian authorities. Christians in Egypt fear increased persecution following the popular vote for an Islamist President-elect, while Christians in Syria have been subject to attack, kidnap and murder as the [...]

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Nothing safe, nothing sacred: Syrian rebels desecrate Christian churches?

June 30, 2012 Featured News

28/6/2012 Shocking images have surfaced, revealing the alleged desecration of Christian churches in Syria by Western-backed rebels. The pictures, taken by local Christians outraged at the violence, were published by PrisonPlanet.com. In one of the photos a man who is said to be a member of the Free Syrian Army poses in a stolen priest’s [...]

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UNESCO places Bethlehem’s Nativity Church on World Heritage endangered site list

June 30, 2012 Featured News

29/6/2012 UN culture body upholds the motion 13-6 after admitting Palestine as a full member last October; Israel views move as Palestinian political stunt. PARIS (AP) — UNESCO’s World Heritage committee on Thursday approved a Palestinian bid to place the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem on its list of sites of World Heritage in [...]

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500th Anniversary of ‘Church of Miracles’ in Romania to Be Celebrated in August

June 30, 2012 Featured News

By Florence Avakian Special to the Mirror-Spectator 29/6/2012 SUCEAVA, Romania — The Hagigadar Armenian Monastery built in 1512 on a hill outside of this Romanian town has been called a “church of miracles,” known for its power of granting the wishes of believers, who over the centuries have come from all over the world to [...]

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Kosovo is Serbian Jerusalem, Patriarch Says

June 29, 2012 Featured News

TANJUG 29/6/2012 GRAČANICA — Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC) Patriarch Irinej has said in Gračanica that Kosovo was, is, and will be the holy Serb land – the Serbian Jerusalem. The patriarch served holy liturgy for Vidovdan (St. Vitus Day) on Thursday, in the Serb enclave south of the Ibar River. In a speech he held [...]

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An ancient faith in Africa

June 29, 2012 Featured News

By Holland Cotter New York Times 28/6/2012 ZION IN AFRICA Ethiopia’s form of Orthodox Christianity has a Jewish ring to it, with its Saturday Sabbath and other similarities. Tradition has it that the Queen of Sheba, an Ethiopian leader, went to Jerusalem in 10th century B.C. and had a son with King Solomon. The prince [...]

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TRAVEL TO THE CROSS – SOCANICA MONASTERY

June 29, 2012 News

Giovanni Bottari 29/6/2012 Socanica – Take a seat on the vintage train that leave from Zvecan train station. Relax yourself. You cannot be wrong, it is the only train waiting at the station. Now, you are travelling through amazing landscape, green hills, blue sky. After 45 minutes of shaky travel get down to the small [...]

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Annual Golf Tournament in Support of Orthodox Theological Academy

June 29, 2012 News

Stella Tsolakidou 28/6/2012 The 11th annual Golf Classic Tournament of the Orthodox Theological Academy of the Metropolis of Toronto was successfully completed in a golf club of Ontario. The players and supporters gathered $128,000 to support the work of the Theological Academy, while this year’s event attracted 160 participants. Metropolitan Sotirios of Toronto said that [...]

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More violence against Serbs in Kosovo on St. Vitus Day

June 29, 2012 Featured News

John Robles 29/6/2012 June 28th was a very important day for the Serbian people and for Serbian Orthodox Christians. On the 28th of June, according to the Gregorian Calendar, Orthodox Serbs celebrate Vidovdan or St. Vitus Day or the Feast of St. Vitus as it is also known, but the day is also very important [...]

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“Islam-Christianity make Iran-Russia close to each other”

June 29, 2012 News

Iran’s Secretary General of World Assembly of Islamic Religious Proximity said that Islam and Orthodox Christianity talks have made Iran and Russia close to each other. MOSCOW, Russia (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Iran’s Secretary General of World Assembly of Islamic Religious Proximity said that Islam and Orthodox Christianity talks have made Iran and Russia [...]

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‘Orthodox’ pilgrims stopped at airport

June 29, 2012 News

29/6/2012 IMMIGRATION authorities stopped the departure of 19 overseas Filipino workers who attempted to leave for Italy on the pretext that they were invited to represent Orthodox Christians in the 7th World Families Meeting in Milan, Italy. Immigration Commissioner Ricardo David said the group tried to leave for Italy on May 16 accompanied by an [...]

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Savisaar: Lasnamäe Orthodox Church Will Be Ready By Deadline

June 29, 2012 News

27/6/2012 Estonia Upon returning from a three-day official visit to Moscow today, Tallinn Mayor Edgar Savisaar said that the construction of the Orthodox Church in the city’s Lasnamäe district will be completed by the planned 2013 deadline. According to Savisaar, during his stay in Moscow, he met with heads of the Andrei Pervozvannoi Fund, which [...]

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Former Abkhaz Orthodox clerics sever links with Moscow Patriarchate

June 29, 2012 News

Sukhumi, June 29, Interfax – Two priests who have decided to organize an independent Abkhaz Orthodox Church said they have definitively severed all their links with Russian Orthodox Church, of which they were members before. Archimandrite Dorofey (Dbar) and Hieromonk Andrey (Ampar) convened a conference in 2011 that set up “Holy Metropolitan See of Abkhazia,” [...]

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Beloved Professor, Veselin Kesich, Reposes in the Lord

June 29, 2012 News

By Deborah (Malacky) Belonick 29/6/2012 On Tuesday morning, June 26th, Dr. Veselin Kesich, who was Professor of New Testament emeritus at St. Vladimir’s Seminary, reposed in the Lord. Professor Kesich, after suffering from a heart ailment for many years, passed away surrounded by his children, Gregory and Carol, at his apartment in Scarborough, Maine, where [...]

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The Patriarch of Romania Will Pay a Canonical Visit to the Romanian Orthodox Church of Maramures and Satmar

June 29, 2012 News

THE PRESS OFFICE OF THE ROMANIAN PATRIARCHATE informs us: From 29 June – 1 July, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will pay a canonical visit to the Romanian Orthodox Diocese of Maramures and Satmar at the invitation of His Eminence Honourable Archbishop Justinian. Friday, 29 June 2012, 20.00 hours, His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel will be officially [...]

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Church Ranks for Three Military Priests

June 29, 2012 News

On 28 June 2012, three military priests of Bucharest garrison were awarded the rank of iconom stavrofor. The religious service was celebrated by His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, in the chapel of the Patriarchal Residence with Saint Great Martyr George as saint patron. The Patriarch of Romanian emphasised in the sermon [...]

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The Graduates of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of Bucharest took the oath of faith

June 29, 2012 News

Romanian Orthodox Church Sunday, 24 June 2012, the graduates of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of “Patriarch Justinian” of Bucharest took the oath of faith. The event took place at the Patriarchate Palace, in “Patriarch Teoctist” Aula Magna, in the presence of His Beatitude Daniel, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church. His Grace Varlaam Ploieşteanul, [...]

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Bulgaria Orthodox Church Marks Apostles Peter and Paul Day

June 29, 2012 News

29/6/2012 The Bulgarian Orthodox Church remembers on Friday the sufferings of the Holy Glorious and All-Praised Apostles Peter and Paul. In Bulgaria, the day is known as Peters’ Day and all named Peter, Petya and Kamen celebrate. This feast day commemorates the martyrdom of the two great Apostles, assigned by tradition to the same day [...]

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Hierarchical Liturgy served in Pokrov Church of Harbin for first time in half a century

June 29, 2012 Featured News

The Chinese Orthodox Church English Translation by Katherine Ilachinski On June 24, 2012, the day when Orthodox Christians in China celebrate the memory of two hundred twenty-two Chinese martyrs who suffered for Christ in 1900, Metropolitan Hilarion, Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of Moscow Patriarchate, celebrated the Divine Liturgy in the Holy [...]

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‘Urgent’ funds needed to complete Indian Orthodox Church’s mega project at Parumala, the St Gregorios Cancer Care Centre

June 29, 2012 Featured News

The Indian Malankara Orthodox Church Liju Cherian 29/6/2012 SGICCC to be Asians Largest Cancer Care Center # Fr Shaji M Baby, Finance Director, begins Gulf visit to source funds # Long-term investors to be issued bonds signed by HH Catholiocs # Work now on in progress at Blocks ‘A’ and ‘B’ # Building when complete [...]

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His Holiness Patriarch Kirill meets with Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought

June 29, 2012 News

On 28 June 2012, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia met with Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri, Secretary General of the World Forum for Proximity of Islamic Schools of Thought, at the Patriarchal Chambers in the Moscow Kremlin. Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Taskhiri arrived in Moscow, leading the delegation of the Iranian theologians, to [...]

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Russian President and head of Palestinian National Authority open Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bethlehem

June 29, 2012 News

On 26 June 2012, Russian President Vladimir Putin and head of the Palestinian National Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, took part in the opening of the Russian Centre for Science and Culture in Bethlehem, official site of the President reports. Attending the ceremony were Sergei Stepashin, chairman of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, who accompanies Russian President [...]

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President Putin attends the opening of a Pilgrims House near the Jordan River

June 29, 2012 News

On June 26, 2012, during his visit to Jordan, Russian President Vladimir Putin attended the inauguration of a Pilgrims House for Russian pilgrims in the territory of the religious and archaeological preserve ‘The Place of the Baptism of Jesus Christ on the Jordan River’. Participating in the ceremony from the Orthodox Church of Jerusalem were [...]

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