Thursday, June 7, 2012

Muslim Brotherhood: Egypt’s Christians Must “Convert, Pay Tribute, or Leave”

June 7, 2012 Featured News

Matthew Clark 6/6/2012 According to a popular Egyptian website, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Egyptian presidential candidate, Mohammed Morsi, has stated that Christians will be forced to “convert, pay tribute, or leave.” When asked about Coptic Christians in Egypt, Morsi reportedly told a journalist, “They have to know that the conquest is coming and Egypt will be [...]

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The Church of “Mother of Belt” destroyed

June 7, 2012 Featured News

6/6/2012 Syria: St. Mary’s Syrian Orthodox Church Um Al-Zunar was destructed because of heavy fight came under that region. The church is known as The Church of Mother of Belt, Um Al-Zunar Church. This Church is a historical one, built in year 59 AD. It holds in it the belt of St. Mary, which according [...]

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Opelo and funeral of protoprebyter-staurophor Professor Dr Radovan Bigovic of blessed repose

June 7, 2012 News

4/6/2012 With the kindness of the editorial-ship of Radio Slovo Ljubve, visitors of the official web presentation of the Serbian Orthodox Church we recommend reports of the Radio station of the Archbishopric of Belgrade-Karlovac from the requiem service and the funeral of protopresbyter-staurophor Professor Dr Radovan Bigovic of blessed repose. Source:

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President Nikolić seeks advice from Patriarch

June 7, 2012 Featured News

Tanjug 7/6/2012 BELGRADE — Serbian President Tomislav Nikolić met late on Monday in Belgrade with the head of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SPC), Patirarch Irinej. Nikolić said after the meeting that he hoped a new government would be formed soon, adding that the citizens “will not show understanding for those in charge of doing that [...]

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The Difference Between Christians and Christians in Syria

June 7, 2012 Featured News

Augin Kurt Haninke Assyrian International News Agency 6/6/2012 (AINA) — It is well known that most Christians in Syria support Assad’s regime because they fear what may come instead, given the experience in Iraq and Egypt. But if the regime falls, only certain Christian groups would benefit, while others would be regarded as traitors by [...]

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Red Crescent assists Fener Patriarchate

June 7, 2012 News

Vercihan Ziflioğlu vercihan.ziflioglu@hurriyet.com.tr 5/6/2012 The Turkish Red Crescent (Kızılay), for the first time in its history, provided 200 boxes of food and clothing aid to the Fener Greek Orthodox Patriarchate yesterday. Avedis Hilkat, a board member at the Turkish Red Crescent’s Adalar office, Ahmet Lütfü Akar, head of the Turkish Red Crescent, Ömer Taşlı, director-general [...]

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Maloney Meets With Patriarch Bartholomew I

June 7, 2012 News
Congressmember Carolyn Maloney met last week with His All Holiness, Bartholomew I, Archbishop of Constantinople.

6/6/2012 Congressmember Carolyn Maloney, co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues, met last week with His All Holiness, Bartholomew I, a major leader of the Eastern Orthodox Christian faith who serves as Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch, as she was attending an international conference in Istanbul, Turkey jointly hosted [...]

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ABMDR President to Receive St. Nerses the Graceful Medal

June 7, 2012 News
Dr. Frieda Jordan addressing the European Federation of Immunogenetics conference in Yerevan, November 2011.

5/6/2012 LOS ANGELES—Dr. Frieda Jordan, president of the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry, will be honored with the St. Nerses the Graceful (St. Nerses Shnorhali) Medal, which was bestowed on her by His Holiness Karekin II, Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of All Armenians. The medal, accompanied by a Pontifical Encyclical, will be presented to Dr. [...]

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KFOR mission in Kosovo: Serbs out?

June 7, 2012 Featured News

John Robles Moscow Times 6/6/2012 Interview with priest-monk Father Ksenofont from the Orthodox eparchy of Raska-Prizren in exile in Kosovo. Regarding the events of last Friday and over the weekend in Northern Kosovo, what has the church done to help the victims of violence? Well, I can talk as a priest-monk of the diocese of [...]

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Orthodox Church Destruction Fought in Morocco

June 7, 2012 News

Natalya Krainova 7/6/2012 The Russian Orthodox Church is fighting the demolition of a church in Casablanca after a defrocked priest illegally sold it to a local developer, church officials say. The Dormition Church of the Mother of God sits on valuable land in the city’s downtown. Built by Russian emigres in 1958, it is one [...]

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